Finance Apprentice
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Company: GREENERGY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
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Location: M20 2LY
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £19,000.00 per year
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Sector: Legal, finance and accounting
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Ref: NAS-2000030985
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Application Deadline Date: 30/08/2026
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Start Date: 07/09/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30. 3 days in the office but can be 5 depending on preference.
Brief Description
Greenergy are looking to hire a Finance Apprentice! Whilst studying towards AAT qualifications, the apprentice will start in the transaction teams - spend 9 months in sales ledger and 9 months in purchase ledger, then move to duty or VAT team, and then spend the last rotation in accounting team. Apply now!
Training to be Provided
- You will have time in your working week dedicated to your studies, some of which will be spent with The Apprentice Academy
- Greenergy will also provide you time to work on revision for any upcoming exams and to complete any administrative tasks set by the Academy or required for your Apprenticeship
- You will be working towards AAT qualifications
Future Prospects
- Greenergy invests in its employees and offers opportunities to grow while providing a safe modern environment
- Its open and honest culture enables its people to strive to be the best version of themselves while developing with the organisation
Vacancy Detail
Duties include:
Sales Ledger Duties:
- Maintain all operational aspects of the Sales Ledger and the specific allocated customer accounts
- Handling and resolving queries in a timely manner through effective communication, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders
- Proactively seeking to improve or create processes that benefit all involved parties
- Maintaining a high level of customer service and ensuring that all service level agreements are complied with
Month end duties:
- Raising daily, weekly and monthly invoices from across the Greenergy group - a combination of automated and manual invoicing depending on complexity of the customer
- Reconciling data from multiple sources, ensuring data is correct to allow invoices to be raised by the automated Invoicing system
- Ensure the daily invoicing checks are completed prior to posting and instil the culture of getting things right first time
- Maintenance and verification of Sales Ledger data, including customer volume reconciliations if needed
Purchase ledger duties:
- Maintain all operational aspects of the Purchase Ledger and the specific allocated supplier accounts. Including but not limited to: Fuel purchases, Esso Cards, Demurrage, Greenergy America purchases, Greenergy Asia, Greenergy Terminals, GRINT, Biofuels and Flexigrid
- Being the account manager for a portfolio of suppliers within the team with a focus on excellent customer service
- The handling and resolution of queries, liaising with internal and external customers
- Proactively seek to improve or create new processes that benefit all parties
- Ensuring all aspects of Customer Service Level Agreements are completed
- Processing of daily, weekly and monthly invoices from Greenergy suppliers, using agreed work streams to maintain a clean Purchase Ledger
- Reconciling data from multiple sources, debit balances and unapproved invoices are at a minimum, and all volumes are reviewed for efficiency and accuracy
- Managing the Purchase Ledger reporting outputs, including; Cash flows, Overdue reports, GRNI, etc.
- Maintenance and verification of Purchase Ledger Month End close processes, including Accruals calculations and postings, and the reconciliation of Accounts Payable to GL
Other Information
What you will need to succeed:
- The ability to maintain excellent attention to detail in a fast-paced, high-pressured environment.
- A high level of organisation and motivation, with the ability to work to multiple deadlines and to prioritise workloads calmly and effectively.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to develop trusting and credible relationships with all levels of the business.
- The ability to reconcile data from multiple sources and the confidence to challenge discrepancies should they arise.
- A flexible and adaptable attitude. Understanding the overall goals of the team, you will have the ability to use your initiative, challenge the status quo and actively consider new ways of working in order to achieve them.
- Ambition, enthusiasm and wanting to progress within a reputable and fast moving organisation.
- A good level of IT literacy including competency with all aspects of Microsoft Office but with advanced Excel abilities.
- Some knowledge or prior experience of accounting and finance, including month end close
- Be flexible and adaptable, understand the overall goals of the team and actively seek to help achieve them