Apprentice Assistant Accountant

Job Introduction

Are you a school or college leaver, or potentially looking for a change of career?  If so; then please read on as we may just have the Apprentice role for you…

At Tarmac, ‘who you are’ matters.  We want to get to know you.  If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. 

Come and join us as an Apprentice Assistant Accountant at Tarmac, based at our offices in Solihull, close to Birmingham in the West Midlands. You will get hands on experience in various tasks that will help develop your skills, qualify and allow you to progress within the business!

The role is easily commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull, Walsall, Redditch, Wolverhampton, Nuneaton, Dudley, Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove, Tamworth, Erdington, Water Orton, Marston Green, Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, Coleshill, Tyseley, Handsworth, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Hinkley and the surrounding areas.

Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it’s important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Role Responsibility

As an Apprentice Assistant Accountant you will be bringing life to our business! An opportunity to kickstart your career with on-going training and development, gaining an industry recognised qualification, with salary and benefits above the apprenticeship standards and a chance to continue to progress within Tarmac. ​

Start your journey with Tarmac where you will play a key role. At the heart of our materials production and provision are our corporate functions teams, including our award-winning finance team, who are at the centre of the key decisions our business makes. If you're looking to start your career in finance in hands-on, embedded team, one of our finance apprenticeships is the role for you. In this role we offer the flexibility of hybrid working and you will have the opportunity to travel to other sites with the business.

Duties may include (not exhaustive): ​

• Supporting the recording and analysis of financial data using company tools and processes​
• Applying transactional processes to support organisational accounting functions​ ​
• Working with company systems and processes to enter accounting transactions, performing reconciliations, identify and correcting errors​ ​
• Supporting various accounting approaches and practices ​
• Effectively analysing and recording financial data sets​
• Supporting end of year reports to include income, profit and loss accounts, VAT returns​
• Adopting financial best practice to support financial accounting and reporting.​ Using varying and different accounting approaches to gather, analyse and support management accounting practices​
• Financial analysis – recording financial data for various stakeholders within the business to support decision making and adding value to organisational targets​
• Supporting the wider financial business units with innovation and business continuous improvement initiatives 
• Taking pride in all work completed and being determined to succeed!​ Maintaining a clean and safe working environment and ensuring safety comes before anything else! ​
• Taking pride in all work completed and being determined to succeed!​

As an Apprentice Assistant Accountant it won’t always be glamorous as you will travel to different locations and sites, and your colleagues are there to help and look out for each other. However, your safety and health is our number one priority and full protective clothing and equipment is provided.  Your colleagues are there to help and look out for each other, and safety is everyone’s responsibility.

While learning in your day-to-day role, you will complete our Professional Development Programme, giving you a good grounding to start an exciting career in our industry.

Further details of the qualification can be found here:

https://htftpartnership.co.uk/courses/apprenticeships-and-internships-htft/

*Please note you must be able to travel between site and college for this apprenticeship

What you will get from us in the role of Apprentice Assistant Accountant

• Your line manager and mentor will give you help and guidance throughout your apprenticeship programme
• Your Finance colleagues, who most of your daily interactions will be with will provide support and knowledge
• Health and Safety Team, always on hand to make sure we are working safely, although safety is everyone’s responsibility!
• Human Resources​, here to support the development of your career with Tarmac

Training:​

• Professional Accountancy Taxation Technician (AAT/ACCA/CIMA)
• Training will take place both in the work place and at college, where you will attend both

The Ideal Candidate

Our people come from a variety of different backgrounds and prior experience isn’t always necessary for success.

Educational Qualifications required for the role of Apprentice Assistant Accountant:

​Minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent including AAT Level Accounting)  grades A-C or numbered equivalent (9-4) including English and Maths

Skills:

• Safety first mindset​
• Practical and hands-on​
• Enthusiastic about starting a career in the building materials industry!​
• Passionate about working safely​
• A team player​
• Willingness to learn and develop

Why Us

In addition to the role of Apprentice Assistant Accountant we offer an extensive range of career development opportunities and industry-leading rewards, incentives, and benefits:

• Enhanced holiday entitlement 
• Contributory pension scheme 
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc. 
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice 
• Access to join our Employee Communities (employee networks) we currently have nine communities inc. (REACH) Religious, Ethnic, Cultural Heritage, LGBTQ+, Parents & Carers, Ability, Wellbeing, Female Voice, and Menopause
• Training and development opportunities 

Interested? Why not click here to find out more?  Go on… are you ready to build your future? 

Tarmac is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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