Finance Apprentice (Level 2)

Office based or Hybrid Opportunity (min 2 days per week in the office) based in Wallington, Surrey

Newmarket Holidays at a glance

We are here to enrich lives and well-being through travel. To bring that to life, we know our success is driven by our exceptional people. We create wish-list holidays. The type of holidays that people have always dreamt of doing. We bring those dreams to life and are the trusted friends of our loyal customers.

Our Finance team combine their passion for customer delivery and their expertise with numbers and data to ensure we maintain and efficient and accurate finance function and business intelligence….

We believe in being a truly customer and colleague centric business. We expect our teams to really understand our holidays, so you’ll get the chance to visit some of our wonderful destinations. These trips are hard work, but you’ll see some amazing things and enjoy unique experiences. Our office in Wallington, Surrey is focused, and results-driven, but lots of fun, full of like-minded people who are all in the business of creating these amazing experiences.

Role Profile

As a Finance Assistant Apprentice within our Finance team, you will be responsible for assisting the team with junior accounting duties. You will have an incredible opportunity to be an integral part of the team responsible for maintaining an efficient and accurate finance function within our business, and to learn loads about the travel industry from the leading independent tour operator in the UK. You will have learning modules as part of your studies, which will lead to a nationally recognised and accredited (AAT) qualification, but also on the job training where you will roll your sleeves up and get stuck into a busy finance operation.

You will rotate around the Finance division, learning about everything from basic bookkeeping activities to management accounts, working with sales and purchase ledgers, running calculations to ensure that records and payments are correct, recording of cash and data entry. This is an all-encompassing role, which will set you up for a wonderful career with Newmarket Holidays and the wider travel industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with processing invoices and supplier payments
• Assist with processing expenses
• Assist with reconciliations
• Assist with debtor and creditor analysis
• Assist with profit analysis, demonstrating understanding of adverse and favourable variances
• Demonstrate understanding of costing, use of cost centres and coding systems
• Be aware always of how you are performing and strive to always do better.
• Take responsibility for your own learning, always seeking out new ways to learn and grow, for your own and the company’s benefit.
• Be open to giving and receiving great feedback from your managers and peers with a view to improving your performance.
• Be solutions focussed, always finding ways to do things better for our customers, our business, and our colleagues.

Who we are looking for

• Someone eager to learn about working in finance and in the travel industry
• Demonstrates passion and approach all tasks in an enthusiastic way
• Self-motivated and self-aware – recognises own development needs and is committed to personal growth
• Effective communication skills - written and verbal
• Computer literate – at least basic operation of MS Office applications – Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams

What we can offer you

• A changing and multi-cultural team-spirited environment with opportunities to learn from new experiences and challenges
• Leaders who are interested in your development and committed to helping you to be the best version of yourself
• A responsible organisation that cares about its people, the environment, and the communities we visit
• Encouragement to take initiative and try something new and different
• A flexible and hybrid-working arrangement
• An exciting set of benefits
• The opportunity to visit our destinations and experience our holidays

The Newmarket Spirit

The Newmarket Spirit is what binds us together. It is our ‘who?’. The Newmarket Spirit bridges the external view of our brand and the internal reality. It seeks to enrich the lives and well-being of our people through travel.

The Newmarket Spirit encompasses five distinct pillars, which have been inspired by people across our organisation.

BE RESPONSIBLE | BE TOGETHER | BE COMMERCIAL | BE DETERMINED | BE A LEADER

Join Us

Sound like the kind of opportunity and place to work that you’re looking for? Please send your CV with a brief covering note about your salary expectations and any notice period to recruitment@newmarketholidays.co.uk

No agencies, please

As an equal opportunities employer, Newmarket Holidays is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Newmarket Holidays.