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Ridge & Partners LLP Hiring for Finance Apprentice Job at Oxford, England Full Time
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Role and Responsibilities
Experience and Skills Required
About the Team
Location: Woodstock, Oxfordshire with hybrid working offered.
Are you interested in a career in Finance/Accountancy?
Do you want to learn alongside experienced finance/accountancy professionals whilst being paid and fully supported to undertake your AAT at college?
If the answer is YES, we may just have the perfect role for you.
Here at Ridge and Partners we have a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Apprentice based at our idyllic headquarters offices with over 200 staff in the grounds of Blenheim Palace – Oxford.
Working as part of our successful Finance team you will play a key role in enabling the team to provide a valuable contribution towards the success of the business.
You will be required to complete a two-year training programme that will cover all aspects of the role and will be delivered through in-house training, as well as day-release or other distance learning methods delivered by the college.
You will complete an Accounts and Finance Assistant Intermediate Apprenticeship within the finance and accounting sector, and you will gain the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) Foundation Diploma in Accounting (Level 2).
Role and Responsibilities
- Review Sub-Consultant and Out-Worker invoices and reverse accruals as required.
- Manage the timesheet elements of physical credit cards and post Project related costs into Workspace.
- Prepare Reports to meet business requirements
- Support the month end fee billing process including accruals, accrual reversals, zero fees and time transfers
- Complete the Finance Set up for new starters on Workspace and SAGE
- Reconcile and post Office Petty Cash and Bank Accounts to SAGE
- Monitor, respond to and forward emails coming into the Finance Email Inbox
- Maintain the Daily control dashboard
- Making ad hoc payments via cheque and online banking
- Holiday Cover as required
Experience and Skills Required
- A minimum of five GCSEs grade 5-9 which must include English and Maths
- A-Level in Maths an advantage
- Desire to pursue a career in Finance.
- Full driving licence
- You must be a great communicator, be confident at working independently to deadlines and ideally possess intermediate MS Word and Excel skills.
We ask that you must have a B or above in GCSE Maths in order to meet the demands of the role and the training.
About the Team
The finance team of 11, led by the Finance Director provides a centralised service for Ridge offices. The team supports strategic and operational business requirements through management of business performance, working capital, financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
Ridge & Partners LLP is an award-winning multi-discipline consultancy, delivering successful property and construction solutions across the UK and around the world. The cornerstones of our strong client relationships are “understanding”, “commitment” and “trust”, which means that we become trusted advisors that clients can depend on. This focus and approach is in our DNA, resulting in consistent performance and over 80% repeat business.
With the extensive technical skills, depth of expert knowledge, and experience expected from a leading professional services company, delivering on our promises is a given, but good is never good enough. We are always looking to raise the bar and stretch ourselves to go further; to be faster and better than before and achieve even higher standards of quality and performance. This requires flexibility and agility as well as innovation and creativity; looking from all directions and angles to produce ideas and solutions that enhance our clients’ businesses.
As a multi-disciplinary property consultant, we create better places for people to live, learn and work.
Our people are the foundation of our success, and our greatest asset. They drive our vision and embody our values. Our people are what separate us from the competition. And we never lose sight of this.
Culture is important to us, and these personal qualities represent the shared characteristics of staff at Ridge, a mindset that drives us towards meeting our aspiration to be the best.
Our values
- Quality and Reliability: First and foremost
- Agile and Flexible: We take the time to understand our clients and their business. We tailor our service to meet our clients’ objectives
- Proactive and Creative: We don’t wait to be asked, we think ahead and act with foresight
- Entrepreneurial and Dynamic: Our spirit created opportunities which adds value to our clients and enables growth and development.
What we offer:
- This role offers the chance to start your career within finance/accountancy at a forward thinking, friendly company
- Our apprentices will work in our finance team and will be given the opportunity to learn a wide range of skills
- Opportunity to learn and develop skills as part of a friendly and dynamic team
- Help, advice, support for you to develop into a key member of the Ridge Team
- Formal training
- Exposure to the following systems: Workspace (Project Accounting) and SAGE (Financial accounting package)
- 25 days holiday
- Private Healthcare
- Life Assurance
- Standard 6% Ridge Contribution
- Highly competitive salary
- Income Protection
- Salary Sacrifice Cycle to Work Scheme
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Gym Membership Scheme