Finance Assistant Apprentice (Maintenance Reserves)
TUI UK LIMITED · Luton, LU2 9TN
Assistant accountant (level 3)
Want to get your career off to a flying start? The sky’s the limit with TUI. We’re the world's number one tourism business, operating in around 180 destinations worldwide. As part of our Finance Apprenticeship, you’ll spend three invaluable years working right at the heart of our business.
The work
At TUI Group, we're transforming into a fully integrated, digitally advanced global travel company.
Our Engineering and Maintenance Finance team ensures clear financial reporting, supports decision-making, and helps save costs across a €0.7bn budget.
As an apprentice, you'll assist with the Airframe and Powerplant cost base, provide commercial support to help finance colleagues and Business Partners understand key trends and spending, and help with various maintenance reserves projects. We're looking for someone interested in finance, willing to learn, and with good communication skills. Join us and start your career in a dynamic and supportive environment!
- Helping with month-end reports and journal entries
- Assisting with budgeting, forecasting, and cashflow
- Preparing monthly balance sheet checks
- Promoting good financial practices and risk awareness
- Ensuring consistent processes and reporting across regions
- Analysing data to track spending trends
- Supporting the team with various projects
- Using data systems to provide insights for decision-making
- Being a positive and proactive team member
Training
Our Finance Apprenticeship offering is an exciting opportunity to gain a professional accounting qualification (AAT), whilst developing a rewarding career in our Finance team.
The programme involves three years of study to become AAT-qualified through two apprenticeships: Level 3 Assistant Accountant and Level 4 Professional Accounting/Taxation Technician, all the while being paid in a full-time permanent finance role.
Training provider: FIRST INTUITION CAMBRIDGE LIMITED
What you come out with
- Level 4 Accounting/Taxation Technician Apprenticeship and Level 4 AAT qualification
What they are looking for
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Resiliance
- Passion for Finance
Qualifications
- Essential · GCSE English C and/ or 4 or above
- Essential · GCSE Maths C and/ or 4 and above
Things to consider
On starting, you will be required to complete the Level 2 Bookkeeping course prior to starting the apprenticeship. We reserve the right to withdraw this advert should we receive lots of applications.
Pay extras and benefits
- Fantastic holiday benefits including discounts, special offers and the ability to purchase additional ‘TUI time off’
- Private medical Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing support
- Excellent rates with foreign exchange and discounts with retailers
- Pension scheme and life assurance
- Workwide Scheme (30 days working abroad)
£20,288 a year
The employer
Be Yourself… TUI’s more than a brand, it’s who we are. Trusted – Unique – Inspiring. We’re the leading tourism business with diverse customers and over 60,000 employees. Together, we embrace different continents and cultures. We believe travel broadens the mind. Just like our customers, we’re on a journey - of development towards a more digital, connected and integrated future - but we haven’t arrived there yet. We believe that differences drive innovation and we’re encouraging an environment where diverse talent thrives. Inclusion is fundamental to everything that we achieve and it’s our unique colleagues that will shape the future of travel. The TUI Group includes over 400 owned hotels, 16 cruise ships, a digital platform for more than 160,000 tours, activities and experiences, strong tour operators, 1,200 travel agencies and leading online portals, five airlines with around 130 aircraft, and destination services in all major holiday countries around the globe. It covers the entire tourism value chain under one roof. This integrated offering enables us to provide our 21 million customers with an unmatched holiday experience in 180 regions. A key feature of our corporate culture is our global responsibility for economic, environmental and social sustainability. This is reflected in more than 20 years of commitment to sustainable tourism. In 2022 financial year the TUI Group with a headcount of around 60,000 recorded turnover of about €16,5bn and an operating result of €409m. The TUI Group’s share is listed in the FTSE 250 index, in the Quotation Board of the Open Market on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and regulated Market of the Hanover Stock Exchange. As part of our Diversity Equity and Inclusion policy we encourage applications from all sectors of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer we guarantee interviews to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and will make reasonable adjustments to assist in the interview process. Applications are open to all sectors of the community
Workplace
- Wigmore House, Wigmore Lane, Luton, Beds, LU2 9TN