Finance Assistant Apprenticeship

Job Introduction

ORGANISATION BACKGROUND

Avant was set up to provide high quality care and sustainable care services and to support people living in the community. Avant are continually investing in quality, training and in improving the ways in which we work. We want the company to be a great place to work and want all staff to help make this happen.

Avant would like to provide an excellent standard of support and care in the community and in care settings. We aim to grow nationally across the UK and want to ensure that our staff and customers are at the heart of everything we do.

OUR COMPANY VALUES

Aspirational = to give outstanding quality of care to every single person

Virtue = to have moral excellence

Accountability = to be responsible and learn from our mistakes

Nurturing = to be always caring and compassionate

Trustworthy = to be totally open and honest

BACKGROUND

Avant requires a Finance Assistant to provide financial control and commercial support to operational staff.

KEY ROLES, TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Purchase Ledger

• Processing and coding of supplier invoices.
• Maintaining supplier records.
• Processing payment runs and reconciling supplier statements.
• Dealing with queries from suppliers
• Working with our third-party services provider

Sales Ledger

• Generating sales invoices for various branches within the company
• Customer sales reconciliations
• Management of credit control

Payroll

• Processing payroll accurately, efficiently and in a timely manner
• Dealing with all payroll related queries
• Processing and managing staff expenses

General / Finance Duties

• Enthusiastic about starting a career in finance and accounting.
• Eager to learn, with a positive attitude and willingness to develop new skills.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Good with numbers and enjoys solving problems.
• Reliable, punctual, and able to manage their time effectively.
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Honest, trustworthy, and committed to maintaining confidentiality.
• Some experience of using spreadsheets or working in an office environment.
• An interest in business, accounting, or bookkeeping.

• Working closely with the Line Manager and third-party services provider (if applicable) to ensure smooth operation of all finance matters.
• Inputting accounting data into the accounting system with speed and accuracy. 
• Assisting in the production and preparation accounts, spread sheets, reports and correspondence as required by management.
• Providing financial support to other team members, including operations. 
• To ensure that filling has been done via the electronic filing system
• To manage processes/projects to improve the functions of the area that you manage 

• To be a ‘Buddy’ to new colleagues – this will improve performance and develop teamwork in a smaller scale. You will be helping each other out for both of you to improve.

• To continually review the processes and procedures that you follow in order that best practice is continually updated and improved 
• To be a ‘completer / finisher’ of projects
• To follow a process from start to finish
• To ‘think outside the box’
• Working with different software systems to implement invoices 
• To take minutes at meetings and have these sent over within 24 hours after the meeting and circulate these around the organisation where applicable
• To be responsible for keeping your own work space clean and tidy – including desk drawers etc. 
• To follow the organisations cleaning policy 

You may also be required to carry out domestic, home care or additional/alternative tasks, as you may from time to time be reasonably expected to meet operational requirements and business needs.

 PERSON SPECIFICATIONS