Finance Apprentice - AAT route
£23,000
Eight Financial Advice - Whiteley
As a Finance Apprentice working for Eight Financial Advice, you will providing support to the larger Finance Team for all group companies. Part of your role will involve assisting in the day-to-day financial activities, these include but are not limited to bookkeeping, assisting with year end accounts, monthly payroll and pension assistance and financial reporting. Alongside practice on the job training you will also complete AAT Level 2 initially before continuing with further finance based qualifications.
The role:
- Assisting with monthly payroll
- Analysing and inputting financial information, both UK and international
- Invoice preparation
- Reconciliations
- Financial Administrative tasks
- Assisting with year-end payroll
- Multi-Currency Bookkeeping and Reporting
- Liaising with internal & external stakeholders
Requirements
- Willingness to learn
- Confident in dealing with relevant stakeholders' queries, resolving or referring where necessary
- Clear and concise communication, influencing skills
- Organised and ability to deliver on tight deadlines
- Have attention to detail and able to prioritise
Benefits
- Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 days wherever you work best
- Performance bonus + Company-wide bonus (when Eight hits targets)
- 28 days' holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
- Private medical insurance & life assurance (4x salary)
- Wellbeing support: EAP, mental health helpline, cycle-to-work scheme
- Free mortgage and pension advice from our in-house experts
- Volunteering time: 8 paid hours annually via The Eight Foundation
- Regular socials & epic events
Skills Required
- Willingness to learn
- Confident in dealing with stakeholders' queries and escalating/resolving where necessary
- Clear and concise communication and influencing skills
- Organised with ability to deliver on tight deadlines
- Attention to detail and ability to prioritise
What We Do
At EIGHT Financial Advice, a multi-award winning Principal Partner Practice of St. James's Place Wealth Management, we have a wide range of expertise and knowledge, developed over many years, to help people - both individually and in business - fulfil their aims and aspirations, as well as offering that all important 'peace of mind' for the future. Putting our clients firmly at the heart of everything we do enables us to run a genuinely client-focused business. In our experience, no two clients are the same and we therefore ensure that we understand your personal or business objectives and deliver solutions that are right for you. We aim to deliver our commitment by: - Providing personal face to face financial advice - Giving you the opportunity to review your financial affairs regularly - Effectively managing your investments via our distinctive approach - Keeping you informed of the latest news - Listening to your feedback - Offering you seminars and events We do not provide off the shelf solutions, but we offer the benefit of a single relationship for all of your financial planning needs. We strive to offer the very best service to develop great relationships. The value of an investment with St. James's Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested. EIGHT Financial Advice is an Appointed Representative of and represents only St. James's Place Wealth Management Plc (which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority) for the purpose of advising solely on the Group’s wealth management products and services, more details of which are set out on the Group’s website at https://www.sjp.co.uk/products. The St. James’s Place Partnership and the titles ‘Partner’ and ‘Partner Practice’ are marketing terms used to describe St. James’s Place representatives. EIGHT Financial Advice is a trading name of Eight Wealth Management.
