Assistant Accountant Apprenticeship - Accord Healthcare Ltd
Qualification Requirements
Minimum 5 GCSEs (or equivalent) at Grade 4 or above, including English and mathematics
Anyone with AAT Level 3 (or Advanced) Diploma in Accounting will not be considered for this vacancy.
Salary - Minimum Apprenticeship Wage
Apprentices could be eligible for annual wage increments, subject to company budgets and satisfactory completion of goals.
Potential future salary in a permanent finance role, subject to completion of the apprenticeship and an Accord position being available, is around £25,000.
Benefits- Holiday Allowance - 25 Days Holiday Allowance, plus Bank Holidays
- Pension - Employee 5%, Employer 3%
- Eyecare
- Employee assistance programme
- Onsite parking
- Onsite Canteen
- Paid sick leave
- Away days / company parties
Location - Accord Healthcare Ltd., Fawdon Manufacturing Centre, Edgefield Avenue, Fawdon, NE3 3NB
Working Hours
37.5 hours Monday to Friday, 08:00am – 16:30pm with 1 hour unpaid lunch break.
Duration - 21 months months
Start Date - ASAP- October 2025
Interview Date - 24th/25th September 2025
Closing Date for Applications - 8th September 2025
To Apply
To apply, please click the Apply Now button and complete the form. If you are having difficulty in completing this, please contact recruitment on recruitment@cogentskills.com for assistance
Next Steps
Successful candidates will be progressed to a one way video interview, invites will be sent via email.
The video interview will be reviewed by the Hiring Manager along with your application form to decide who is brought through to the final interview.
Job Description
Cogent Skills is working with Accord Healthcare Ltd to recruit an Assistant Account Apprentice for its busy manufacturing site in Fawdon. The successful candidate will be employed by Cogent Skills Services but will undertake all on-job learning with Accord Healthcare Ltd.
The Apprentice will follow the Assistant Accountant Advanced Apprenticeship Standard, which will combine on-job learning with study of the AAT Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Accounting.
Job Responsibilities
An Assistant Accountant helps in the operation of day-to-day financial activities. These may include data entry to month end management accounts and year-end financial statements. In addition, the assistant accountant may find themselves involved in regulatory financial requirements. These may include the completion of VAT returns or assisting in the preparation of tax computations. The role will be interesting and varied and typical activities will include:
- Assisting with monthly and year end reporting of financial and accounts information
- Overhead fixed cost reporting
- Ledger reconciliations
- Investigation of monthly manufacturing variances
- Organise weekly cycle counts
- Direct Labour Analysis
- Cost Accounting
Candidate Requirements
Skills / Personal Qualities
- Ability to work as part of a team: contributing to and working with others
- Good verbal and written communication skills – willing to speak to others, in person or by e-mail and phone
- Able to build and maintain positive working relationships with people across the business
- Good organisational and administration skills – uses time efficiently and effectively, ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks
- Strong numeracy skills and ability to manipulate, analyse and present data
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software
- Uses initiative by finding ways to complete tasks/solve queries
- High degree of personal sincerity and integrity, able to maintain confidentiality and display the highest levels of professionalism at all times
- Customer focused – understands the needs of the customer, providing excellent service at all times
- Methodical, accurate and detail-conscious approach to work
- Strong desire to learn, a positive attitude and the flexibility to adapt to change and work effectively in a variety of situations
Training To Be Delivered
Qualification to be delivered:
AAT Level 3 Diploma in Accounting
Apprenticeship Standard: Assistant Accountant
Training Provider: Access Training
Delivery model: Day release weekly, face to face, at Access Training Centre, Team Valley
Future Prospects
This role is part of our talent planning for the future and, for the right person, we are looking to continue to develop the Apprentice upon successful completion of the Apprenticeship.
Our business is growing, is fast paced and evolving, so there may be the opportunity to gain permanent employment in the team, subject to performance, successful completion of the Apprenticeship, and a role being available.
Completion of this apprenticeship will provide the foundation to progress to the Level 4 Professional Accounting Apprenticeship, which incorporates the AAT Level 4 Professional Diploma in Accounting.
Things To Be Considered
Cogent Skills is managing the recruitment process in partnership with Accord Healthcare Ltd. To ensure fairness and equality of opportunity all applications must be made by completing the application on the Cogent Skills Apprenticeship portal.
The successful candidate will be employed by Cogent Skills Services but will undertake all on-job learning with Accord Healthcare Ltd. at its manufacturing site in Fawdon.
Please ensure that you currently live within, or can relocate to, a commutable distance of the site/training provider.
About Accord Healthcare Ltd
Accord Healthcare is a global pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and distributes generic, biosimilar and added-value medicines in over 85 countries worldwide, helping to improve access for patients to essential pharmaceutical care at the point of need.
Accord's portfolio spans across critical therapeutic fields such as oncology, cardiology, neurology, psychiatry, diabetes, pain management and gastroenterology
As one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical companies in the world, we're always looking for the best and brightest technical minds and forward-thinking business professionals to join our dynamic departments and make a difference.
Our employees foster our enduring reputation for quality and integrity, supporting our primary goal of helping to ensure patients receive the medicines they need, when they need them, with patient well-being at the centre of everything we do.
We believe in creating a culture that ‘achieves’. To support this, we are looking to build an inclusive company that attracts and retains key talent by investing in training and development, tailored to an individual’s needs.
From Scientific Affairs, Engineering and Quality, to Supply Chain, Finance and Commercial, there are certainly lots of opportunities to explore - all with the ultimate focus of improving patient care.
It all starts with you…
At Accord, it is recognised that developing the skills and capabilities of employees is essential to achieving organisation goals and every employee receives individual professional development support.
Do you want to join a company that approaches business differently; a company that never settles for the established way of doing things?
- Department
- Finance & Accounting
- Role
- Apprenticeship (Level 3 / 4)
- Locations
- Tyne and Wear
- Employment type
- Apprenticeship
- Company
- Accord Healthcare Ltd
- Industry Sector
- Life Sciences
- Role Level
- Level 3 Apprenticeship
Accord, Fawdon
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