Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We’re looking for an ambitious, energetic & attention-detailed person to join our Income Team within Finance. You’ll combine work-based training along with achieving a Level 3 Advanced qualification in AAT.
Working for one of the largest employers in the County, you will gain Finance, Systems and Communications skills as well as experience of working as part of a large finance function serving the residents of Buckinghamshire.
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The Income Team are responsible for ensuring that income received from our customers is correctly distributed across the organisation. We deal with large volumes of transactions daily, with a real emphasis on accuracy and efficiency across processing, maintenance, and reconciliations.
Being a centralised Team, we assist our colleagues across all the councils’ various directorates, meaning there is a lot of variety across the various types of work that we are involved in. This provides a great opportunity to build working relationships with a large variety of colleagues across the organisation.
About the role
In this role you’ll contribute to the work of the Income Team and study to achieve the Level 3 AAT apprenticeship throughout the duration of your time with us. We’ll give you time during your working week for study and assessments- which means no evening or weekend study is required!
You will work towards being able to undertake the range of duties listed below:
1. Transactional processing across a variety of Finance Systems
2. System administration & maintenance
3. Banking & reconciliations
4. Mailbox administration
5. Communication with internal and external customers
Any-Desk:
As an ‘any-desk’ worker, you’ll need to be connected to our network to access digital folders and resources, but this can either be from home or an office location when required. You will be required to work from the office a couple of times a week, depending on your role and team requirements.
About you
Skills required:
6. Able to organise own work and achieve deadlines
7. Understanding of general administrative procedures
8. Microsoft Office skills (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook)
9. Good IT skills and the ability to use databases
10. Able to communicate well verbally and in writing
11. Able to use initiative and work independently
12. Good attention to detail
Personal qualities:
13. Comfortable working as part of a team and playing an active role
14. Able to get on well with a range of people
15. Real ambition to develop your skills and experience
16. Enthusiastic, dynamic and forward thinking
17. Willingness to learn and to undertake a range of different tasks as required
Eligibility criteria: For Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship - Qualified to Level 1 or above in Literacy and Numeracy (GCSE grades A* - C/9-4 or equivalent), or Level 2 Intermediate Apprenticeship Qualification.
Please note: You will not be eligible for this post if you have a degree in the same subject as this apprenticeship, or other qualifications in the same subject at an equivalent level.