Digital Wholesale Solutions Hiring for Accounting Apprentice Job at Southampton, England Full Time

We’re a continually growing, innovative and multi-award-winning wholesaler and distributor of communications, cloud, billing and hardware products and services.

We work in a fast-paced and exciting industry, where we have forged strategic partnerships and relationships with the UK’s top telcos, networks, and vendors, including BT, TTB, Vodafone, Virgin Media O2, EE, CityFibre, Sophos, Microsoft and Samsung.

As a Channel-only business, we never sell directly to the end-user. Instead, we serve a market of independent resellers, which we proudly refer to as our partners.

We offer our partners a market-leading and comprehensive product portfolio, intuitive portals and platforms and a passionate team of industry experts.

We make a complex industry as simple as possible for our partners, enabling them with a commercial platform to sell the latest technologies and solutions to the resilient UK SMB market.

We have huge aspirations to challenge our industry and what we do, and we continuously dream big for the future. As a team of over 750 people, we’re all immensely proud to work for a rapidly expanding company with an incredible culture that puts our team members and partners at the heart of everything we do.

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  Department: Finance
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  Salary: £18,525.00 p.a.
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  Location: Home based with occasional travel to our Southampton Office
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  Working hours: Full time Monday – Friday, studying one day per week towards an accounting apprenticeship qualification

About the Team
We are a market leading, growing, and successful organisation, recruiting for a new Accounting Apprentice. As part of an engaging and vibrant team, your days will be varied, fast paced, with a buzz and passion for customer happiness.

About the Role
This role isn’t your typical ‘Accounting’ apprentice job, with a lot of elements that make up your day to day working pattern, giving rise to a breadth of skills you will be able to nurture and cultivate during your time with us. As part of being an Apprentice, we will give you exposure to a wide range of accounting tasks and functions to ensure your day-to-day role is diverse and engaging, alongside completing an apprenticeship qualification in accounting. Whilst this role is home based, you may be expected to travel occasionally to office locations and to attend team days.

Role responsibilities:

• Assist the management accounts team to fulfil monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements on the financial performance of the business
• Help in the analysis of the company’s financial performance and the processes to aid the board make informed decisions
• Assist in the completion of the management accounts and enable the team to provide added value to the reporting of the financial performance of the company
• Posting accrual and prepayment journals
• Maintaining balance sheet control accounts
• Assisting in the analysis of monthly performance to budget, forecast and prior periods
• Bank reconciliations
• Updating cashflow spreadsheet
• Assisting with the quarterly VAT return
• Other ad hoc tasks

• You will be joining a fast moving, fluid working environment and therefore the ability to adapt and work to strict deadlines is essential
• You need to be comfortable working with excel
• Good attention to detail
• No previous experience required

Additional Information

Giacom, DWS and Union Street are part of the same group of companies, bringing together three leading channel solutions in telecoms, cloud software services and cloud billing. Our aspiration is to be the number one supplier in the channel.

Your job role may be focused at one of the brands, but you will interact and impact across the wider group of companies.

What’s in it for you? Why should you come and work for us?

Our benefits consist of; no dress code (you, do you), days off for special life events, work from anywhere concept with occasional travel for training or meetings. Work with and learn from experts in the telecoms industry, a wellbeing and engagement team, ‘if you want a career with us then grab it’ concept, recognition and team/industry events as well as a whole host of other benefits which can be found on our website www.digitalwholesalesolutions.com on our Careers page.

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we positively encourage applications from all eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status or pregnancy or maternity.

We aim to ensure that all applicants are provided with the same opportunities during the recruitment process, and, to that end, we strive to comply with the duties placed upon us to make reasonable adjustments as prescribed by the Equality Act 2010. Should you have a disability or long-term health condition and require a particular adjustment to be made to allow you to fully participate in the recruitment process, please ensure you let me know.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, provide two references and proof of right to work in the UK, unrestricted.

Here are some of the benefits that we offer…

• 25 days holidays, plus bank holidays, and the option to purchase more!
• Pension
• Employees Assistance Programme
• Professional development to help you achieve your personal goals
• Eye care vouchers available and discounted Medicash membership
• Access to discounts and savings at more than 1,200 retailers
• An additional day off on your birthday or if you’re getting married

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