Saint Gobain
Finance Apprentice
Job Location
Loughborough, United Kingdom
Job Description
Finance Apprentice
If you have an interest in Finance, why not kick-start your career with a Level 3 Apprenticeship at Saint Gobain? This opportunity allows you to gain hands-on experience supporting our Brands with ledgers, expenses, controls, and audits-ensuring effective cash flow management for Saint Gobain, while working towards achieving your Level 3 AAT qualification.
Saint Gobain Professional Services are part of Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland who are worldwide leaders in sustainable construction.
This role can be worked on a hybrid basis with a minimum of two days in the office required per week.
You will get time off to study for your qualification.
What we're looking for:
If you have an interest in finance and are a driven team player who enjoys working collaboratively with others we would love to hear from you
You will possess excellent communication skills and be forward thinking- draw on your experience to identify problems and suggest improvements to mitigate future risk.
You will have a high level of accuracy & strong numeric skills
Strong adherence and awareness of internal controls
Energy and enthusiasm to achieve goals and add value to a dynamic and changing team.
What you will be doing:
As an apprentice you will be trained to support our customers with a range of accounts payable duties- and while processing payments is a big part of your job, we are embracing digitalisation to reduce the time spent on transactional tasks. This transformation will offer our Associates the opportunity to enjoy more variety and exposure to other projects and services that add real value to their customers.
Here are some of the tasks you will be involved in.
Processing of Inbound Invoices or Expense Claims
Resolve and reconciles discrepancies for documents that cannot be processed.
Maintains payment data for Vendors, Banks, and Employees with the ERP systems.
Ensures payment on-time to Employees and Vendors.
At financial month-ends, executes and complete financial reports, creates KPI Dashboards or gathers data to meet the Groups Financial reporting requirements.
Maintains the highest level of Internal Control
Completes the required statistical information for Government Bodies
Provides reports or information to local Finance teams, as required, to assist with budgeting and cost control
Are Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?
Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.
We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.
And what about flexibility?
The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments.
Our standard working hours are 36.25 per week, with the option to work from home 3 days a week after training. If you need more flexibility- we'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting. But we do promise to listen.
If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you
Location: Loughborough, GB
Posted Date: 12/23/2024
If you have an interest in Finance, why not kick-start your career with a Level 3 Apprenticeship at Saint Gobain? This opportunity allows you to gain hands-on experience supporting our Brands with ledgers, expenses, controls, and audits-ensuring effective cash flow management for Saint Gobain, while working towards achieving your Level 3 AAT qualification.
Saint Gobain Professional Services are part of Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland who are worldwide leaders in sustainable construction.
This role can be worked on a hybrid basis with a minimum of two days in the office required per week.
You will get time off to study for your qualification.
What we're looking for:
If you have an interest in finance and are a driven team player who enjoys working collaboratively with others we would love to hear from you
You will possess excellent communication skills and be forward thinking- draw on your experience to identify problems and suggest improvements to mitigate future risk.
You will have a high level of accuracy & strong numeric skills
Strong adherence and awareness of internal controls
Energy and enthusiasm to achieve goals and add value to a dynamic and changing team.
What you will be doing:
As an apprentice you will be trained to support our customers with a range of accounts payable duties- and while processing payments is a big part of your job, we are embracing digitalisation to reduce the time spent on transactional tasks. This transformation will offer our Associates the opportunity to enjoy more variety and exposure to other projects and services that add real value to their customers.
Here are some of the tasks you will be involved in.
Processing of Inbound Invoices or Expense Claims
Resolve and reconciles discrepancies for documents that cannot be processed.
Maintains payment data for Vendors, Banks, and Employees with the ERP systems.
Ensures payment on-time to Employees and Vendors.
At financial month-ends, executes and complete financial reports, creates KPI Dashboards or gathers data to meet the Groups Financial reporting requirements.
Maintains the highest level of Internal Control
Completes the required statistical information for Government Bodies
Provides reports or information to local Finance teams, as required, to assist with budgeting and cost control
Are Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?
Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.
We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.
And what about flexibility?
The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments.
Our standard working hours are 36.25 per week, with the option to work from home 3 days a week after training. If you need more flexibility- we'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting. But we do promise to listen.
If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you
Location: Loughborough, GB
Posted Date: 12/23/2024
Contact Information
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