2026 Finance Apprentice - Crawley

You can expect to be involved in a wide range of activities, gaining significant exposure to the business and building a broad professional network. Key responsibilities will vary depending on which team you are sitting within, but may include:

Learn about Thales Finance processes and tools used and help with process documentation Learn about timesheets and labour bookings - why we do them and how it works and then support the resolution of timesheet queries Learn about travel and expense and support the resolution of expense queries using Concur Learn about the P2P (Procure to Pay) process and support the resolution of supplier invoice queries and work with our TBSS team (shared services finance team, procurement and quality teams) Help to develop and add content for our finance intranet pages Working with the Digi Ops teams to develop and implement forms and dashboards Help to manage access to Customer Portals Help track data quality and assist the businesses in improving their metrics Help with data cleanse activities to improve our data quality metrics Supporting projects in maintaining forecast invoicing dates and improving cash forecasting Ad hoc tasks, reporting and analysis as required by the UK finance process team

Training:

Apprentices will start by enrolling onto a Level 2 Accountant Assistant Apprenticeship with our award-winning training partner, The Apprentice Academy. Delivered via a virtual delivery model over 15 months, the apprenticeship will introduce you to day-to-day accounting activities and will help you to build the competence to deliver these successfully. On completion of the programme, you will achieve an AAT Level 2 Diploma in Accounting.

Training Outcome:

You will be expected to progress onto higher level learning and will become an account assistant in our finance team. 

Employer Description:
Together, we create the ingenious technological systems and innovations that impact and improve people's lives every single day. Even if you haven't heard the name Thales before, you've definitely benefited from our inventiveness. We reinvest 20% of our sales in Research & Development in the UK. Together we supply invention across 4 core areas: Aerospace, Space, Defence and Security, Digital Identity and Security.

Working Hours :
Monday - Friday, 37 hours a week (8-hours Monday - Thursday, 5-hours Friday), exact working hours TBC

Skills:
IT skills,Number skills,Analytical skills,Logical,Team working