Accounts or Finance Assistant
Maintaining an efficient and accurate accounts finance function within a business.
Apply nowCourse Overview
An Accounts Finance Assistant is an integral part of the team responsible for maintaining an efficient and accurate finance function within a business. The Accounts/Finance Assistant is responsible for assisting the team of accountants with junior accounting duties.
What will you learn?
General Business
- Aware of elements of commercial law that may have an impact when working in accountancy, such as contracts, data protection or Anti Money Laundering.
- Can explain the importance of upholding relevant codes of conduct.
- Can explain different legal entities and organisational structures.
- Aware of the impact of technology on business and its accounting and finance functions.
Understanding your organisation
- Understand own role within the context of your organisation.
- Understand transactional processes of accounting and their use within a finance function.
- Understand what makes a business or organisation successful, through either buying or selling products or supplying services to a market.
Ethical Standards
- Understands corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics and sustainability within organisations.
- Understands the importance of the need to keep up-to-date with relevant policies, procedures, regulatory or system changes
Communication
- Deals effectively with a range of stakeholders using appropriate communication methods to deliver accurate and timely results.
- Avoids jargon and uses the correct technical terms where appropriate.
- Demonstrates good listening and speaking skills to be able to communicate effectively in the right manner.
Uses Systems and processes
- Utilises relevant office/accounting software packages to input and manage data accurately.
- Ability to maintain the security of accounting information using passwords and other appropriate security measures.
Can I apply
for this course?
The entry requirement for this apprenticeship will be decided by each employer, but may typically be five GCSEs at Grade C or higher.
Some of the requirements may be:
- Typically have five GCSEs at Grade C/4 or higher.
- Have ordinarily been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years.
- Have English and Maths or equivalent at Grade C/4 or higher.
- Be able to meet the programme modules through their job role.
Progression
Opportunities
All of the courses we offer at SNE are aimed to help progress your continuous professional development.
On completion, you will be able to apply for the appropriate level of professional membership aligned with this apprenticeship, dependent on the qualification chosen.
Register your interest
Get in touch with one of our experts now. They live and breathe SNE and will be able to advise you the best route for you or your business.
Apply nowLooking to empower your current staff?
Hiring an Accounts or Finance Assistant Apprentice to support your business’s needs.
We can work with you to source a suitable applicant for your business or you can up-skill your existing employees. If the Apprentice is under 19 and your business has less than 50 employees, there will be no cost for the training. If they are over 19 and/or your business has over 50 employees then you will contribute 10% towards the cost of the training.
Learner testimonial
"I had an amazing experience training SNE. I gained completely new skills which gave me the confidence to pursue something I’ve wanted to do since leaving school. I’ve always worked in jobs that I was never fully happy in but always stayed put as I felt ‘comfortable’."
Laura - Level 3 Learner
