AAT Level 2 Accounts/Finance Assistant Apprenticeship

This apprenticeship is ideal for those members of your team that are responsible for assisting the team with junior accounting duties or those are looking as first step into their accounting career.

Alongside working towards a Level 2 AAT qualification an Accounts/Finance Assistant’s work could include basic bookkeeping activities, working with sales and purchase ledgers, running calculations to ensure that records and payments are correct, recording of cash and data entry.

Providing the opportunity for members of your team to undergo apprenticeship training has many benefits to your organisation:

• Growing productivity: Maximise staff efficiency though the development of knowledge and increasing team motivation by developing a learning culture.
• Cost effective: Provide valuable opportunities which improve retention to minimising recruitment costs
• Develop your business: Affordable way to expand and improve your business
• Enhanced reputation: Provide customer reassurance by investing in trained staff.

The CAW Business School has a well-earned reputation for excellence; delivering quality training and education and employer support. Your apprentice will benefit from:

• Tuition, support and assessment provided in the workplace, online and via email and telephone contact
• Access to our unique Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and extensive eLibrary resources

Entry Requirements

In order for you to have an apprentice they must be living and working in England in a suitable role and cannot already hold a Level 2 (or above) qualification in a similar subject.

For the apprenticeship to be completed within 12-14 months the apprentice must be working a minimum of 30 hours per week. If they are employed for fewer hours then the length of their apprenticeship will be proportionately extended.

There are no formal academic entry requirements although competency in basic maths and English is necessary.

Should you be looking to recruit a new trainee to join your team we can help to advertise your vacancy and screen applicants free of charge, contact us for more information.

Course Fees

Apprenticeship fees are payable by you as the employer. Prior to commencing the course an invoice will be issued for the total course fee.

As an employer you will either be an Apprenticeship Levy Payer (employers with over a £3 million pay bill) or Non-Levy Payers (employers with less than a £3 million pay bill).

Recruit an apprentice and save up to £3,000!

From August 2020 to January 2021, businesses that recruit a new apprentice aged 16 to 24 will receive a £2,000 incentive from the government towards the cost of training, while those that hire new apprentices aged 25 and over will be paid £1,500.

These payments will be in addition to the existing £1,000 incentive the government already provides for new 16-18 year old apprentices. This means that if you hire a 16 to 18 year old apprentice, you receive £3,000! If you also have less than 50 contracted employees, the apprenticeship fees for those aged 16-18 years of age will be fully funded!

 Course fees for Apprenticeship Levy Payers

Digital account payment – £6,000

Course fees for Non-Levy Payers

Course fees for Non-Levy Payers are paid via co-investment with the government, meaning that the government provide 95% of funding towards course fees.

Full fee payable by the employer – £300

All fees are fully inclusive of applicable awarding organisation and End Point Assessment (EPA) fees. However, if a student needs to re-sit an exam, re-sit fees will be payable.

Before making any financial decision it is recommended that you seek advice from an independent source, for example the Money Advice Service.

These are current figures and may be subject to change. The differences in course fees reflect the level of funding that is available as a result of government policies and priorities. These may be as a result of age, employment status, previous education achievements, or location for example, and are outside the control of CAW Business School.

What Next?

Following this qualification many employers choose to continue supporting their staff and develop them further such as by supporting them to undertake the AAT Level 3 Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship or related areas of business, such as Customer Service or Business Administration