At a Glance
- Tasks: Assist the finance team with reports, journals, and exciting projects.
- Company: Join Sika Ltd, a global leader in specialty chemicals.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, private healthcare, and a pension contribution.
- Other info: Dynamic apprenticeship with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Gain hands-on finance experience while working towards your CIMA qualifications.
- Qualifications: A-levels or strong GCSEs; relevant work experience is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 28860 - 28860 £ per year.
Your role will be assisting with the daily tasks that keep the finance team functioning such as producing business critical financial reports and posting journals. You will also have the opportunity to work on significant projects such incorporating acquisitions into our function.
Wage: £28,860 a year
Training course: Professional accounting technician (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5.00pm, 37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date: Tuesday 1 September 2026
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 3
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You'll learn on the job by getting hands‑on experience.
You will join an apprenticeship scheme that will work in a rotation around the three main teams within the finance function. The role will give you a well‑rounded, hands‑on finance experience whilst you obtain your CIMA qualifications. Each rotation comes with exciting challenges and new learnings.
- Controlling: Experience in management accounting tasks such as budgeting, forecasting, product costings, financial analysis, sales reporting, cost controls, capex approval controls and stock analysis.
- Financial accounting: Grounding on the fundamentals of accounting and the regulatory environment. Tasks include posting journals, administrating the IFRS16 calculation, VAT returns, accruals, statutory account preparation, maintaining the fixed asset register and assisting with audit inquiries.
- Pricing: Analysis on what changes in price have on sales. Tasks include mix analysis, low margin reporting, quote pricing administration, E-shop management, pricing reviews and elasticity analysis.
Within the scheme, you will have a single line manager for discussing your own development and guiding you through blending your practical work experience with your CIMA studies.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Costing analysis and reporting
- Financial reporting
- Assisting with statutory reporting
- Assisting with the month end closure
- Price effect calculations
- Pricing controls
Where you’ll work: Sika Limited, Knowsthorpe Way, Leeds, LS9 0SW
Training: Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider: BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
What you’ll learn:
- Collate and analyse financial information, and show how that information can be used most effectively to support value creation within an organisation.
- Apply accounting principles and adhere to legislation to ensure records are accurate and compliant with law or company policy when delivering accounting activities.
- Apply professional scepticism when undertaking accounting activities to inform and evaluate decision making.
- Interpret financial information for accounting purposes.
- Participate in or support others with quality improvement activities.
- Use software packages to assist with accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements.
- Deliver accounting tasks with a critical eye to transactions and trends.
- Use workload management principles to plan, organise and prioritise own tasks.
- Communicate accounting information through a variety of media.
- Build and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Training schedule: Professional Accounting Technician Level 4. BPP apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry-experienced training team.
Requirements:
- Essential qualifications: Minimum A-levels, strong GCSEs in N/A (grade A-C/9-4).
- Skills: Organisation skills, motivated, analytical thinker, enjoy problem solving, strong time management, strong interpersonal skills, proactive and keen to learn.
- Other requirements: Preferably some kind of relevant work experience or a degree. School leavers also welcome to apply with strong A-levels/GCSEs. Strong numerical competency.
About this employer: Sika is a speciality chemicals company with a globally leading position in the development and production of systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protection in the building sector and industrial manufacturing.
Company benefits:
- A company pension contribution of up to 10%
- Private healthcare for you, with option to add family
- Group life cover at 6x your annual salary
- Global Income Protection (PHI)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Staff discount platform & Cycle to Work scheme
- Dedicated Service Awards for reaching key milestones
- Selected discounted Sika products
After this apprenticeship, your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship.
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