AddressAccounts Assistant Apprenticeship - The Letta Trust
To be responsible to the Finance Manager for the day to day financial functions of the Trust and ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Closing date: 29 Feb 2024
Apprenticeship summary
Annual wage - £11,830 a year
£6.50 per hour - Term Time only
Working week -35 hours per week, shifts TBC - Term time only
Total hours per week: 35 hours a week
Expected duration
20 Months
Possible start date
29/02 2024
What will the apprentice be doing?
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Comply with the Trust’s Scheme of Delegation and Financial Code of Practice and
- Support the Finance team with the operation and maintenance of the Trust’s manual
- Support the Finance team with the routine accounting operations including receiving and processing orders, processing invoices, processing BACS payments for suppliers
- Support the Finance team with chargecard transactions
- Assist the Finance team with the administration of the school’s bank accounts,maintaining records and checking statements
- Assist the Finance Manager with budget monitoring and forecasting of the central budget
- Analyse and monitor school budgets and provide reports and support to Office Managers and Headteachers
- Prepare monthly financial reconciliations for authorisation
- Produce VAT reclaims ready to be submitted to HMRC monthly
- Assist the Finance Manager with providing financial analysis, statistics and returns for the DfE
- Assist with Payroll processes
- To support the Finance Manager in managing the annual external audit
- To support the Finance Manager in managing the scheduled internal audits
Procurement:
- Contribute to the development and implementation of procurement systems and policies with the aim of providing robust controls whilst minimising bureaucracy
- Engage with schools to understand their needs and with suppliers to develop a profile of their delivery capability
- Maintain accurate auditable records of all procurement processes
- Monitor procurement processes in schools to ensure they comply with the Financial Code of Practice and provide support where necessary
- Identify the need for and negotiate contract framework agreements which result in savings for the Trust schools
- Support the Finance team to review contracts and negotiations with major suppliers,seeking optimal terms
- Maintain an accurate and up to date register of all live contracts
- Support the Finance team with contract tendering, contract award, contract management, supplier performance monitoring and reporting
- Support the finance team with the maintenance of the asset register, working with the Trust’s It consultant
General duties and responsibilities:
- Show commitment to the Trust, its inclusive ethos and equal opportunities for all in the
- To participate in the Trust’s performance management scheme, ensuring that objectives are set & met within the agreed time-scale
- To work between LETTA Trust schools as required, and expect to be working off-site on occasion
- To attend all meetings and training required for the role
- To work with leaders to meet the aims and objectives of the Trust
- Support the Trust’s statutory policies, e.g. health and safety, disability discrimination
- To safeguard and promote the welfare of pupils and follow the child protection procedures adopted by the Trust.
- Undertake any professional duties commensurate with the grade of the post
What training will the apprentice take and what qualification will the apprentice get at the end?
You will work towards completing a Level 3 Accounts Assistant Apprenticeship
- All training will be delivered by LMP Education remotely. This will be on a weekly basis.
- The employer will give you time out of your working week to focus on your qualification
What is the expected career progression after this apprenticeship?
- Future opportunities for progression
Requirements and prospects
Desired skills and personal qualities
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Qualifications
- GCSE or equivalent English (Grade 4) essential
- GCSE or equivalent Maths (Grade 4) essential
Employer
THE LETTA TRUST
About the employer
The LETTA Trust is born of a history of collaborative working between schools and community partners. Bygrove is a founder member of the Poplar Partnership group of schools. Set up by headteachers in 2001, these schools worked effectively together and steadily improved the quality of education for young people in Poplar. In 2013 Bygrove received a teaching school designation, expanded its partnership working and established the London East Teacher Training Alliance or LETTA. Working with around 20 East London school partners, LETTA trains approximately 50 new teachers annually and oversees a varied professional learning and school improvement offer. Stebon began working with Bygrove in 2012 at a point when pupil outcomes had been below national floor targets for 10 years. Teachers and leaders worked and learned together and the partnership went from strength to strength. The impact on both schools was powerful, so much so that in 2017 they entered into a formal partnership and The LETTA Trust was born.
Address:
(Second Floor via Bow Brew Cafe)
St. Paul's Way Community Centre
83 St Paul's Way
Training provider
LET ME PLAY LIMITED
Apprenticeship standard
Assistant accountant
Level 3 (A level)
