Finance Apprentice

Are you looking to kick start your career in finance through a mixture of professional training and real-life work experience?

If this sounds like you, we have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Apprentice working from our Derby Training Centre to join our team on a full-time basis. This unique opportunity will enable you to understand different aspects of finance and how they all interact with the wider business, providing you with plenty of opportunities to put your learning into practice.

Who are Develop Training?

Develop Training is the UK’s leading accredited provider of Compliance, Technical, and Safety training. We support over 7,000 firms with their training needs and our clients include some of the UK’s largest and best-known organisations from the Utilities and Construction, Defence, Healthcare, Facilities Management, and Telecommunication sectors.

What’s best is 96.5% of our workforce are satisfied to very satisfied in their role at Develop Training!

Our core values!

Our values are fundamental to our people, our work, and our business. Therefore, our success depends on how we work and our people that work alongside us. Everything we do is guided by our core values, Integrity, Professionalism, Respect, and Responsiveness. If you share our values, then we would love to hear from you!

What will you be doing?

You will be mentored and guided by members of the Finance Team, who will empower you to grow and develop. Working independently, you’ll learn how to excel in high pressure environments.

You’ll support the wider group’ Finance Teams with the monthly production of statements, debtors’ reports, account reconciliations, forecasting, budgeting, and analysis. Combining a wide variety of live projects and off the job training whilst completing your AAT Level 2.

What we’re looking for:

• A keen interest in a career in Finance.
• Driven with a desire to succeed and progress.
• 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at or above grade 4/C, including Maths and English.
• Demonstrates resilience to pressure and the challenge this brings while adapting to critical work demands with flexibility.
• Proactive desire to self-develop in skills relevant to the requirements of the role and wider business.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Strong, literacy, numeracy, administration, and organisational skills.
• Fully competent in Microsoft Office Products particularly Word, Excel, and Outlook.

You are:

• Confident.
• Self-motivated.
• Able to develop positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Highly organised and able to multitask.
• People orientated and approachable.
• Excellent at presenting information.
• Professionally presented.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays on commencement; this increases to a maximum of 30 days with length of service plus additional discretionary days throughout the year.
• Medical cash plan including dental, optical, chiropody and physiotherapy!
• Invested in employee health and wellbeing with mental health first aiders, online health assessments, access to 24/7 GP’ via phone or video chat and a counselling and support helpline.
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay.
• Life assurance (3 x salary).
• High street discount vouchers.
• Great staff extras including various away days and annual staff awards.
• Investment in your continuous professional development.
• Full-time hours equate to 35 hours per week.
• A great work environment and a friendly family feel culture.

Interview Information

First stage interviews will take place over telephone for approximately twenty-minutes. With a view to progress successful candidates to a face-to-face interview at our Derby Training Centre whereby you will be asked a set of competency-based questions. Interviews will take place whilst the advert is still live, so do not delay getting your application in!

Further information

Develop is an equal opportunities provider and we are committed to the safeguarding of all our employees, associates, and learners.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake a criminal record check as part of our safeguarding duty and every 3 years thereafter.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please email our HR Team at recruitment@developtraining.co.uk.