Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprentice
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Company: C.S.T PHARMA LTD
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Location: Walsall, WS9 8ER
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Legal, finance and accounting
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Ref: NAS-2000050568
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Application Deadline Date: 30/10/2026
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Start Date: 01/11/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: 8:30am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday.
Brief Description
This is a great opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Accounts Apprentice to CST Pharma's Accounts/Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience of a busy finance department while working towards a recognised accounting qualification.
Training to be Provided
Your programme will be delivered with the following structure:
- Fortnightly workshops delivered at Walsall Training Centre
- During these sessions, new topics will be taught by your tutor
Between sessions, you’ll complete self-study tasks using the BPP and Kaplan platforms, spread throughout the week.
Future Prospects
It is expected that upon completion of the apprenticeship there may be an opportunity to remain in a full-time position within the Communities team or progress further within the organisation onto a suitable pathway.
Vacancy Detail
Purchase Ledger
- Finding / matching & attaching digital invoices to sage 200
- Posting components invoices on ERP & matching & reconciling to goods received & attaching digital invoice to Sage
- Claims & returns - Posting to sage from Acre aesthetics (SalesForce) & DMG (DMG Dashboard in outlook)
- Writing off matched Goods received notes – ERP
Monthly Accounts
- Stock in transit reports - Acre aesthetics Creating reports & reconciling to nominal ledger monthly
General Tasks
- Credit card transactions - posting transactions and reconciling to statement
- Requalifications of existing customers / suppliers plus setting new ones up on Sage 200
- Carbon emmissions reporting - employee travel - business mileage
Treasury
- Bank Reconcilliations
- Invoice finance ledger reconcilliations
Sales Ledger
- Credit controll - DMG & Acre aesthetics. Creating reports and chasing overdues
- Posting and allocation of payments across alll companies on Sage and marking as paid in each company's portal
- Entering and submitting weekly Tesco invoices using their EDI portal
Payroll
- Average holiday reporting
- Data entry if not confidential
Systems you will be using:
- SAGE 200 - Accounting package
- WMS - Warehouse management system for stock reports
- ERP - API link from stock system to sage - various functions & reports for sales and purchase ledger and treasury
- Excel - Training in creating & analysing spreadsheets
- Salesforce - Specifically for Acre aesthetics - knowledge of stock reporting, and various functions for sales & purchase ledger
- Web expenses - Knowledge of our expenses package and of credit cards & reconciliation
- Bank - Dependent on passing a probationary period - own login for bank. Setting up 'one-off' payments, checking payments and searches
- TESCO EDS - Entering and submitting Tesco invoices for payment via their portal
- Spindle
Other Information
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