Finance Apprentice

• Developing data-driven insights and strategy to drive measurable impact
• Creating impactful campaigns that tap into culture.
• Creating channel and platform-agnostic campaigns that grow organically.
• Delivering integrated campaigns that are earned-first but deliver for paid and owned.

• Introduction to Bookkeeping
• Principles of Bookkeeping Controls
• Principles of Costing
• The Business Environment (Synoptic assessment)

• Maintaining the invoice tracker
• Following up client PAG with account leads and interoffice contacts.
• Managing client portals to ensure POs are raised a correct - working with the client team to follow up any missing items.

• Requesting credit check information and distributing
• Requesting client creation via the US
• Opening jobs and ensuring all jobs have correct documentation - submitting paperwork to revenue control and loading PAG and scopes onto each job.
• Communicating job numbers to the client team and ensuring that time / costs are on the correct job.
• Running weekly time and cost reports and actioning time and cost moves

• Raising fee and cost invoices and loading onto client portals
• Assisting Credit Control with any receivables issues
• Assisting with completion emails for completed contract / milestone jobs and ensuring that these are loaded onto SAP.
• Complete final reconciliations
• Ensuring that jobs are closed on a timely basis.
• Analyze and update the monthly WIP report - review with ABM / BM and submit to revenue control.

• Ensuring that new employees are set up in SAP, and rate maintenance / employee SAP maintenance.
• Assisting with any audit questions
• Running ad hoc reports as required
• Answering general queries for the team - assisting with the day-to-day financial management and smooth running of the practice

• Weekly run of open purchase order report.
• Investigate and resolve all open purchase orders or instruct the appropriate team where necessary.
• Raise inter-company purchase orders where necessary.
• Contact purchase order creators to good receipts POs.
• Raise internal purchase orders to vendors where necessary or instruct the relevant team.
• Maintain and manage the Vendor PO mailbox.

• Run daily Vendor Invoice "Parked" list, update notes and action points, and resolve / investigate where necessary.
• Weekly email the Vendor Invoice "Parked" list to the relevant teams.
• Support the business with "New Vendor" onboarding queries.
• Request and reconcile vendor statements against SAP.

• Download monthly statements and match them against downloaded invoices.
• Raise purchase orders to Amex GBT Travel where necessary or instruct the relevant team.

• Reconciling the Amex meeting card monthly.
• Collate invoices and purchase orders for submission to the Shared Services Accounts Payable department for processing before the payment date.

• A* - C (or equivalent) in Maths and English at GCSE level
• An excellent communicator
• Confident in taking a proactive approach to identify opportunities for the client, practice and team.
• Able to manage your time and consistently meet deadlines.
• Attentive to detail and quality

• Private medical insurance
• Group life assurance.
• Group income protection.
• Personal pension plan
• Employee Assistance Programme

• Buy or sell holiday.
• Additional life assurance cover
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Dental insurance
• Travel insurance.
• Health screening
• Gym discounts
• Cycle to work scheme

• Health cash plan
• Flexible working with our 3:2 hybrid work model
• 4pm Friday finish
• Equivalent of $250 USD for new joiners on 6-month+ contracts to support home working setup
• 25 days' annual leave (in addition to public holidays) plus 2 volunteering days, birthday day off and discretionary festive closure
• Flexible public holidays
• Exclusive shopping discounts and perks
• Headspace membership
• Annual eyecare voucher
• Season ticket loan
• Referral bonus scheme
• Long service bonus
• Enhanced family leave
• Inclusive and invisible health policies

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