Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprentice

Summary

This is a great opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Accounts Apprentice to CST Pharma's Accounts/Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience of a busy finance department while working towards a recognised accounting qualification.

Wage

£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

National Apprenticeship Minimum Wage

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

Hours

8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday.

40 hours a week

Start date

Thursday 1 October 2026

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Purchase Ledger

• Finding / matching & attaching digital invoices to sage 200
• Posting components invoices on ERP & matching & reconciling to goods received & attaching digital invoice to Sage
• Claims & returns  - Posting to sage from Acre aesthetics (SalesForce) & DMG (DMG Dashboard in outlook)
• Writing off matched Goods received notes – ERP

Monthly Accounts

Stock in transit reports - Acre aesthetics Creating reports & reconciling to nominal ledger monthly

General Tasks

• Credit card transactions - posting transactions and reconciling to statement
• Requalifications of existing customers / suppliers plus setting new ones up on Sage 200
• Carbon emmissions reporting - employee travel  - business mileage

Treasury

• Bank Reconcilliations
• Invoice finance ledger reconcilliations

Sales Ledger

• Credit controll - DMG & Acre aesthetics. Creating reports and chasing overdues
• Posting and allocation of payments across alll companies on Sage and marking as paid in each company's portal
• Entering and submitting weekly Tesco invoices using their EDI portal

Payroll

• Average holiday reporting
• Data entry if not confidential

Systems you will be using:

• SAGE 200 - Accounting package
• WMS - Warehouse management system for stock reports
• ERP - API link from stock system to sage  - various functions & reports for sales and purchase ledger and treasury
• Excel - Training in creating & analysing spreadsheets
• Salesforce - Specifically for Acre aesthetics - knowledge of stock reporting, and various functions for sales & purchase ledger
• Web expenses - Knowledge of our expenses package and of credit cards & reconciliation
• Bank - Dependent on passing a probationary period - own login for bank. Setting up 'one-off' payments, checking payments and searches
• TESCO EDS - Entering and submitting Tesco invoices for payment via their portal
• Spindle
  

Where you'll work

Unit 5-7
Westgate Park Industrial Estate, Tintagel Way, Aldridge
Walsall
WS9 8ER

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

P.T.P. TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)

What you'll learn

Course contents

• Record transactional data.
• Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues, such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
• Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
• Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
• Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience, and different media methods, with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
• Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
• Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
• Record transactional data.
• Use the organisation’s standard tools and processes to examine data to identify transactional issues, such as reconciliations and inconsistencies between invoices.
• Recognise and rectify routine errors, escalating as necessary.
• Plan and review accounting and finance tasks.
• Communicate with stakeholders to deliver accurate and timely results, avoiding jargon, using language tailored to the audience, and different media methods, with an appreciation of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
• Use finance and accounting software packages to accurately input and manage data to contribute to routine accounting tasks.
• Handle data and digital technology in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.

Training schedule

Your programme will be delivered with the following structure:

• Fortnightly workshops delivered at Walsall Training Centre
• During these sessions, new topics will be taught by your tutor

Between sessions, you’ll complete self-study tasks using the BPP and Kaplan platforms, spread throughout the week.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade C/4 or above)
• Mathematics (grade C/4 or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working

Other requirements

How will you travel to work?