Junior Accountant Apprentice
Join us as a Junior Apprentice Accountant and take your first step into a rewarding finance career. You’ll gain valuable on the job experience, contribute to real business projects, and receive full training and study support to help you develop into a confident, skilled accounting professional.
As a key member of the HQ finance team, the Junior Accountant will play an important role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of financial transactions across the Group’s European entities.
This role is primarily focused on transactional finance, data entry, reconciliations, and maintaining strong financial controls. You will support the wider finance team by ensuring high-quality financial data that underpins reporting and decision-making, while gaining exposure to core accounting processes in a growing international business.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone at the early stages of their finance career who is keen to develop within a supportive and fast-paced environment.
Large & Small
Junior Accountant Apprentice
Join us as a Junior Apprentice Accountant and take your first step into a rewarding finance career. You’ll gain valuable on the job experience, contribute to real business projects, and receive full training and study support to help you develop into a confident, skilled accounting professional.
As a key member of the HQ finance team, the Junior Accountant will play an important role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of financial transactions across the Group’s European entities.
This role is primarily focused on transactional finance, data entry, reconciliations, and maintaining strong financial controls. You will support the wider finance team by ensuring high-quality financial data that underpins reporting and decision-making, while gaining exposure to core accounting processes in a growing international business.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone at the early stages of their finance career who is keen to develop within a supportive and fast-paced environment.
Mid
Key responsibilities
Transaction Processing & Data Accuracy
• Process purchase invoices and employee expenses accurately within SAP
• Post bank transactions and perform regular bank reconciliations
• Assist with sales invoice processing and cash allocation
• Support credit control processes to help maximise cash collections
• Prepare twice monthly payment run schedules for review and approval
• Maintain accurate supplier and customer account records
• Ensure all financial transactions are recorded in a timely and accurate manner
• Maintain organised supporting documentation and clear audit trails
• Support data entry across the Group’s European entities
Financial Control & Administration
• Reconcile supplier statements and resolve supplier queries
• Assist with intercompany invoicing and transaction matching
• Support maintenance of the fixed asset register (data updates only)
• Help ensure finance processes are followed in line with internal controls
• Escalate discrepancies or unusual items to senior team members
Month-End Support
• Assist the team in preparing information required for month-end close
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for review
• Post routine, recurring journals from pre-approved templates
• Support the preparation of schedules and documentation for the group auditors
Reporting & Systems Support
• Extract basic data from SAP and Excel to support reporting
• Assist with data cleansing and automation improvement initiatives
• Support ad-hoc administrative tasks within the finance team
Qualifications and experience
• Educated to A-Level (or equivalent), ideally including Maths, Accounting or a business-related subject
• Degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline desirable but not essential
• No prior finance experience required, although previous administrative or data-entry experience would be beneficial
• Strong numerical skills and high level of accuracy
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel (e.g. basic formulas, sorting/filtering, data handling)
• Comfortable working with systems and learning new software (ERP experience advantageous but not required)
• Expectation the successful candidate would commence (or continue) studying for AAT/ACCA/CIMA qualification, for which Nexteq would provide study support
Personal attributes
• Methodical, organised and detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple tasks
• Eager to learn and develop within finance
• A proactive and positive team player
• Comfortable working with routine processes while maintaining high accuracy
• Able to communicate clearly with colleagues across the business
