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Surface Transforms are experts in the development and production of carbon-ceramic materials and the UK’s only manufacturer of carbon-ceramic brakes for automotive use.

Here at Surface Transforms, our mission is to ‘Innovate and develop a sustainable, world leading, high performance braking system to push performance boundaries to new levels. Investing in our people and processes to empower and enable profitable success.’

• Leadership – Decisive, united together, acknowledging our success
• Collaboration – Empowering and challenging our entire team
• Communication – Thorough, inclusive, agile considered decisions
• Ambition – Resilience through brave and bold thinking
• Excellence – Striving to continuously improve our high standards
• Trust – Autonomy to develop and deliver, knowing you are fully supported

We are recruitingan Apprentice Accounts Assistant into our Finance team, who will work closely with the Financial Controller responsible for transactional tasks such as managing invoices, processing payments, reconciling bank statements, assisting with financial reports and taking on other department and process improvement projects.

• Manage and be responsible for the monthly supplier statement reconciliation, including chasing suppliers for statements and resolving reconciling differences.
• Involvement with matching invoices to purchase orders in the iDocs system.
• Manage and be responsible for the monthly company credit card reconciliation.
• Responsible for the daily bank reconciliations.
• Involvement with sales and debtor reporting.
• Assist with the preparation of monthly management accounts and statutory accounts
• Assist the Finance team in various other ad hoc duties and projects

• Highly motivated for a career in Accounting and Finance.
• Willing and able to take ownership of the tasks assigned to them.
• Have initiative to make changes or improvements to tasks or processes where they see them.
• Good communication and organisation skills.
• Reliable with a desire to take on more responsibilities.

• AAT Qualified/ part-qualified
• Experience of manufacturing

• You will complete AAT L2 or L3 through our chosen Apprenticeship provider.
• Full training will be given upon joining for daily tasks and on the IT systems such as SAP and i-docs
• Full support will be given by the finance team for on-the-job training and study support
• With the projected growth profile of the company, it is anticipated that there will be opportunities to progress rapidly with Surface Transforms for the right candidate.

• Attention to detail and self-starter mindset
• High level of resilience is required
• Can do/hands on/get involved attitude.
• Inquisitive
• Collaborative

Hours: Monday - Thursday 8am - 5pm, Friday 8am - 2.30pm

Salary: £19,000 or NMW dependent on age