Finance Officer Apprentice

Do you want to earn while you learn and gain an AAT qualification for free? Our apprentices work in friendly and supportive teams, earning a salary while undertaking their qualifications, with 20% of their working team set aside for learning/studying. This is a great opportunity for those wishing to make a start in an accountancy career.

Connect is a housing association providing over 3,000 homes and well-being and support services, across West Yorkshire. Our over-arching vision is for a sustainable and just society where good homes, neighbourhoods and opportunities help people enjoy happy, healthy lives.

As part of this, we are passionate about providing opportunities to the local community to gain an apprenticeship whilst working for us. If you choose to join Connect for an apprenticeship, you will be joining a friendly team, who look out for each other and provide fantastic benefits including:

• Friendly and lively team
• 26 days basic holiday + public holidays. This rises with each year of service up to a maximum of 31 days + bank holidays
• BUPA Cashplan
• Occupational pension plans: up to 9% matched employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Programme

Connect are committed to ensuring our workforce reflects the communities we serve and actively works to promote equality, diversity and inclusion. We encourage applicants from underrepresented groups such as disabled and LGBT+ communities.

As an apprentice Finance Officer, you will learn how to provide timely and accurate transactional processing, whilst supporting the Financial Team in the management of systems, and enable the team and the Association to achieve its overall aim.

Alongside your work you will be studying towards the AAT Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting.

The duration of this course will be around 15 months.