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16/03/2025
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Apprentice Grade - £9.18 an hour
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Job description
Role: Accountancy Apprentice
Apprentice Grade - £9.18 an hour
Location: Council House
Hours: 37 hours a week
Closing Date: 12 March 2025
Contract Type: Fixed term for 21 months
We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Accountancy Apprentice to join our Service Support team. This rewarding role offers an excellent opportunity for career development, where you will study towards the AAT Level 3 Accounting qualification while gaining hands on experience in a friendly and supportive environment.
As part of a wider finance team, you will be involved in supporting financial operations by carrying out various Accountancy and Administration tasks including inputting journals, interrogating financial systems, maintaining accurate records, and assisting with month-end and year-end accounting procedures.
This role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and grow within the organisation. You will be supported throughout your apprenticeship and gain valuable experience in public sector accounting, contributing to the smooth running of financial processes while advancing your professional qualification.
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
- Flexible work/life balance scheme
- Modern office environment
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programmes & Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers
The Opportunity
In the role of Accountancy Apprentice, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact:
You’ll update financial reports, maintain both manual and digital filing systems, and assist with the reconciliation of revenue and balance sheet accounts.
You will input data into financial systems, run reports from the financial systems to support colleagues and budget managers, and assist with year-end accounting processes. Additionally, whilst managing your own workload you will support the financial team with various ad hoc administrative tasks and gain exposure to a range of accounting activities, such as budgeting and forecasting.
You will process journals to record financial transactions, ensuring that they are accurate and comply with accounting standards. A key part of your role will involve checking financial transactions to ensure they are recorded correctly, and investigating any discrepancies that may arise.
You will also be involved in reconciliations, such as matching accounts, identifying and resolving discrepancies between records, and ensuring that all financial transactions align with relevant accounts and ledgers. Additionally, you will be responsible for checking and processing requests for petty cash and imprest top-ups, ensuring these are properly documented and in line with internal procedures.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will need to have:
- Attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate initiative, enthusiasm and self-motivation
- Ability to work well as part of a team
- Ability to prioritise and work to challenging deadlines
- 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) including Maths and English
- Good organisational and numeracy skills
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
- Use of packages including Microsoft Office Excel and Word
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 16 March 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
