Finance Apprentice

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, drawing 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. 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.
• Resolving and reconciling discrepancies for documents that cannot be processed.
• Maintaining payment data for Vendors, Banks, and Employees with the ERP systems.
• Ensuring payment on-time to Employees and Vendors.
• At financial month-ends, executing and completing financial reports, creating KPI Dashboards, or gathering data to meet the Groups Financial reporting requirements.
• Maintaining the highest level of Internal Control.
• Completing the required statistical information for Government Bodies.
• Providing 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. 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. 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 needs you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you.

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!