2026 Finance Apprentice Level 2 Accountant Assistant, with progression onto Level 3 Assistant Accountant and Level 4 Professional Accountant
* Start Date: 07 September 2026
* Salary:£24,000 per annum
* Location: Crawley
* Employee type: Permanent
* Working Schedule: Monday to Friday, 37 hours a week (8 hours Monday‑Thursday, 5 hours Friday)
What The Role Has To Offer
* Earn while you learn
* Job specific training experience
* Recognised qualifications
* Permanent role from day one
* Tuition fees for university or approved training providers are fully covered
* Great opportunity to gain experience and further your career in Finance
* Operate in a visible role with an opportunity to add value from the early stages
Responsibilities
* Learn about Thales Finance processes and tools used and help with process documentation
* Learn about timesheets and labour bookings – why we do them and how it works and then support the resolution of timesheet queries
* Learn about travel and expense and support the resolution of expense queries using Concur
* Learn about the P2P (Procure to Pay) process and support the resolution of supplier invoice queries and work with our TBSS team (shared services finance team, procurement and quality teams)
* Help to develop and add content for our finance intranet pages
* Working with the Digi Ops teams to develop and implement forms and dashboards
* Help to manage access to Customer Portals
* Help track data quality and assist the businesses in improving their metrics
* Help with data cleanse activities to improve our data quality metricsSupporting projects in maintaining forecast invoicing dates and improving cash forecasting
* Ad hoc tasks, reporting and analysis as required by the UK finance process team
Apprentice Programme
Apprentices will start by enrolling onto a Level 2 Accountant Assistant Apprenticeship with our award‑winning training partner, The Apprentice Academy. Delivered via a virtual delivery model over 15 months, the apprenticeship will introduce you to day‑to‑day accounting activities and will help you to build the competence to deliver these successfully. On completion of the programme, you will achieve an AAT Level 2 Diploma in Accounting. On completion of the Level 2, you will be supported to progress onto the Level 3 Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship (18 months) and the Level 4 Professional Accountant Apprenticeship (17 months) to achieve your AAT qualifications.
Requirements
* 5 GCSEs 9‑4 (A‑C), including English and Maths
Benefits
* 201 hours annual leave (plus a company day and bank holidays)
* Company Pension
* Health Care Cash Plan
* Life Insurance
* Discount Portal
* Performance‑related pay uplifts
* 80 Hours Volunteering (first two years)
Security Clearance
* All successful candidates must possess the permanent right to work in the UK and will be required to go through Government security clearance at BPSS Level and to obtain full Security Clearance (SC) in line with the United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) requirements before starting.
* SC clearance generally requires having resided in the UK for the last 5 years. Applicants may need to provide evidence of identity, work eligibility, time spent abroad, and employment/education history.
Equal Opportunities
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
Closing date:
Applications will close at 11.59pm on Thursday 12 February 2026. This is the only time we will be accepting applications this year.
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