Description Not going to University? Or are you read for a change of career? Well how about a Finance Apprenticeship?

What are we looking for?
Confident with numbers and keen to work with numbers. A strong customer service grounding in addition to your
numerical skills will be highly beneficial. This will be combined with the ability to turn complex numerical data into
reports that are easily digestible to stakeholders who do not work in Finance.
There’s never been a better opportunity to develop your finance career.
You’ll need a minimum of five GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade C/4 or higher including Maths and English.
Excellent communication skills.
Display commercial awareness and business acumen.
Hands on
You will understand what it means to be part of a team.
Confident and friendly telephone manner.
Please note no previous experience is required.

What can you expect?
A fresh start career in Finance with a leading technology brand based in the heart of Brighton, will develop and
reward your skills to the levels they deserve. Over three years, you will complete CIMA or ACCA, both highly
recognised accountancy qualifications, giving you serious breadth of industry specific skills. You will get to develop
your career as quickly as you do your knowledge with both academic and professional work experiences.

Things we have planned for you...
Rotation across these 3 teams over the 3 year program. Your qualifications will require you to have 3 years of
experience in a wide breadth of areas, so the work experience element of the program will help you gain knowledge
in all aspects of day-to-day financing in a commercial growing business, which is invaluable to both your studies and
your work experience.

Year 1 – Accounts Payable / Financial Controlling Team
In this role, you will get to dig deep into the accounts payable and financial reporting function of the wider finance
team.
o To provide a financial service to our suppliers and internal stakeholders
o Payment runs to pay our suppliers and employee expenses
o Purchase ledger and dealing with queries
o Purchase orders
o Processing expenses
o General enquiries and problem solving

Year 2 – Accounts Receivable
In this role, you will get to work with our revenue team that associate themselves with billing our customers, as well
as chasing any debtors due to us
o To provide a financial service to our customers and sales teams
o Sales ledger and billing customers
o Credit controlling, chasing customers debtors
o Revenue reporting and analysis
o Variance analysis on revenues

Year 3 – Financial Planning & Analysis
In this role, you will work within the financial planning & analysis team. This is the forward-looking aspect to finance,
this experience will be extremely valuable for your future in finance.
o To provide a financial service to your internal stakeholders whom will primarily be budget holders and senior
management.
o Annual budget process planning for the financial year ahead.
o Reforecasting the original numbers reviewing the financial year’s outlook.
o Analyzing our monthly accounts, measuring against budget/reforecast.
Think LEAN. Throughout the 3 years, as a member of the wider finance team, we will all be reviewing and
streamlining our processes to ensure they are as efficient as possible.
We will enroll you with BPP University to undertake the Accountancy/Taxation Professional Level 7 program.
Included in this program, is the completion of ACCA or CIMA.
No previous experience is required, as full training will be given by on the job training and a day release to carry out
your studies.

What we offer;

Benefits: We offer a range of benefits including; bike to work scheme, pension contribution and discounted gym memberships.

Culture: Brandwatch is a place where the lines between work and fun are blurred. As a growing international company, with 6 offices across the globe, communication is key to ensure everyone’s voices are heard, and helps us maintain our flat structure. We listen and learn. We develop our staff. We care about everything, and above all we support each other.

Working for Brandwatch: Brandwatch Brighton is where it all began. We can be found in the vibrant North Laine, whilst we don’t believe in stereotypes, we do host yoga classes and Juice Mondays. We have cupboards bursting with snacks, a well stocked drinks fridge, sushi lunches, flexible working spaces and if you’re lucky we’ll even treat you to an ice-cream on the beach and you can enjoy one of our fortnightly massages right from the office.

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