Professional Accounting Technician Apprenticeships

Good with numbers? This could add up to the perfect start to your career in Finance?

Applications are now closed for 2022.
We will open new roles in February 2023.

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Required qualifications

At least a grade 4/5 (C grade) in GCSE Maths & English (or equivalent)

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Apprenticeship duration

The Apprenticeship contract lasts for 2 years

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Prospect

Develop your accounting career through on-the-job training a gaining professional accounting qualifications

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Start date

All Apprentices will be inducted together in mid-July and will network together throughout the programme

What will I learn?
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The chance to grow a career within the Financial Controlling team of a large global organisation. You will study towards the Level 4 Professional Accounting Technician Apprenticeship Standard, including studying towards professional qualifications in either AAT or CIMA.

You will work alongside a professional team that manages financial reporting from the UK for a global business, often producing and analysing information that gets presented at Board level.

This is a unique opportunity to learn from those around you, gain professional qualifications, and grow your career in the financial world.

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What will you learn at RWE?

  • You will join a dynamic international environment with the team located in both Germany and the UK.

  • The team has a great team atmosphere with easy-going and experienced people to support your development on a daily basis.

  • You will quickly grow to take on responsibility and work independently, with tasks that have high visibility towards senior management across the entire company.

  • Tasks will include quarterly forecasting, annual budgeting, cost allocations, purchase requisitions and other reports and analysis that add value to our financial business.

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What existing attributes do you need?

  • You will be motivated to learn and develop a career within the Finance & Accounting sector.

  • You will have an affinity with numbers

  • You will have good written and verbal communication skills

  • The ability to build trusting working relationships

  • Good IT skills and experience with MS Office, in particular use of Excel is preferred (but not essential)

  • The ability to balance work, study and other life commitments (you will be provided with the appropriate support and study time to achieve this)

Benefits during the apprenticeship

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Up to 10% of salary in personal bonus each year

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20% off-the-job training

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Training & Development with Kaplan – one of the leading accounting training providers

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On-site gym facilities

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Company-wide benefits and discounts

Locations

We offer our Professional Accounting Technician Finance Apprenticeships at the following locations:

  • Swindon

    RWE Supply & Trading

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    All the RWE Supply & Trading Apprentices are based in our UK head office in Swindon. We currently always have at least 12 current apprentices at the site and a growing number of former apprentices too. It is a modern office with free secure parking, good transport links, canteen, free tea, coffee and refreshments and our own on-site gym facilities.

    You can find more images and information on our Swindon office on our career pages on rwe.com.

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    Your contact for Early Career opportunities: Apprenticeships, UK Placement Programmes and non-technical Graduate Programmes

    Our international Early Careers Team at RWE Supply & Trading manages all non-technical Early Careers programmes across the group, including our Commercial, Finance, Business Transformation & Strategy, HR, IT and IT Developer Graduate Programmes.

    You’ve checked the information provided and there are still open questions left? They will be happy to answer them via email.

    For questions about any non-Early Careers positions at RWE Supply & Trading, please contact the colleague listed in the job ad on our job board.

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