Finance Apprentice

Finance Apprenticeship – Credit Control

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 minimizing overdues and proactively chasing customer accounts — 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 each week for your qualification.

What we’re looking for:

• 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 Credit Control duties:

• Cash Receipts Management: Accurately post and allocate cash receipts to maintain a precise sales ledger.
• Invoice Management: Chase and pre-chase outstanding invoices via phone and email, escalating issues to the Head of Credit Control/Team Leader.
• Customer Account Maintenance: Keep customer records and account notes up to date, processing online payments as needed.
• Debt Collection: Manage assigned customer accounts to ensure effective cash collection, support working capital targets, and resolve account issues promptly.
• Reporting and Reconciliation: Prepare account statements, reconciliations, and provide detailed cash collection reports to the Team Leader.
• Stakeholder Communication: Attend monthly meetings, present results, produce actionable meeting minutes, and collaborate with internal/external stakeholders.
• Credit Risk Management: Refer overdue debt to Credit Risk in accordance with policies and propose credit limits for new/existing customers based on evaluations.
• Compliance and Audit Support: Adhere to internal controls, meet month-end deadlines, and assist internal/external audits.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvement opportunities within the department.

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?

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 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!

Job Types: Full-time, Apprenticeship

Pay: From £19,000.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Yearly bonus

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Store discount

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person