Apprenticeship training course
Accounts or finance assistant (level 2)
Maintaining an efficient and accurate finance function within a business.
- Qualification level
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2
Equivalent to GCSE. - Typical duration
- 12 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Legal, finance and accounting
- Maximum funding
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£7,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Accounts administrator
- Accounts assistant
- Accounts payable clerk
- Assistant bookkeeper
- Business accounts administrator
- Cost accountant assistant
- Finance assistant junior
- Junior cashier
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- 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.
Full information on Accounts or finance assistant (level 2) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.