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Business Administrator Apprenticeship
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Other start dates:
16th September 2024
- Length 18 Months
- Study Apprenticeship (One day a week studying)
- Location Kidderminster College
More about the course
Business Administrators play a vital role in a wide variety of organisations across all sectors of industry.
As a Business Administrator apprentice, you'll be expected to undertake your responsibilities efficiently, show integrity and have a positive attitude. This role involves demonstrating strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and adopting a proactive approach to developing your skills. You'll also be expected to show initiative, manage your priorities and your own time, solve problems, make decisions and (where possible) seek out opportunities to support others to develop their own professional skills through coaching and mentoring.
A minimum of 20% of your contracted hours must be spent in off-the-job training. This is predominantly done one day per week at Kidderminster College, but can also include training sessions carried out at your workplace.
Entry requirements
- Minimum GCSE grade 4/C or equivalent in English and maths.
What will I achieve?
Upon successful completion of this apprenticeship, you will achieve a Level 3 Business Administrator qualification.
What will I learn?
Gain a highly transferable set of knowledge, skills and behaviours that can be applied in businesses small and large, public and private, as well as the charitable sector, such as:
- Developing, implementing, maintaining and improving administrative services
- Developing managerial behaviours and styles
- Building organisational efficiency
- Teamworking skills
- Problem solving skills.
How is the course taught?
- College day release (term-time only)
- On-the-job training
- Assessment
- Portfolio.
You must meet the requirements of an End Point Assessment in order to be deemed competent in your job role.
How am I assessed?
Once you have completed all elements of your apprenticeship, you will enter your Gateway period and get ready to take your End Point Assessment, which consists of:
- a knowledge test
- a portfolio-based interview
- a project presentation.
Where can I progress?
Business Administrators play a vital role in a wide variety of organisations across all industry sectors. Our Business Administrator apprenticeship will be a gateway to further career opportunities, such as management or senior support roles.
Apprenticeship Pay
You'll be employed as a regular employee on a contract of employment for at least 30 hours per week and paid at least the National Minimum Wage for an Apprentice, which is currently £5.28 per hour.
Employers can pay the National Minimum Wage for an Apprentice for the first year of the apprenticeship. After this first year, the salary rate will change to the National Minimum Wage for your age.
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Meet our tutors and students
Elizabeth Brice
Tutor - BusinessWorking with apprentices gives great job satisfaction as you can see their knowledge and skills develop and their confidence grow in the workplace. I can pass on my knowledge and experiences to learners starting their careers and those who feel ready to progress into management. Having the link with local employers also makes the role varied and interesting, as you can see how the topics taught in the classroom are translated into the work environment.
Jayne Bartlett
Tutor - BusinessI have worked with apprentices at Kidderminster College since 2015 to showcase their knowledge, skills and behaviours from their business administrator roles. I love the variety of my role, working with employers and apprentices from a wide range of organisations and sectors to help them build on their skills and achieve their potential throughout their apprenticeship. Every day is different, and nothing is better than seeing our apprentices' transformation from the start to the end of their time with us.
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What can I do with a qualification in Business Administrator?
Daily tasks:
- Conducts investigations and advises management on financial aspects of productivity, stock holding, sales, new products, etc.
- Prepares periodic accounts, budgetary reviews and financial forecasts.
- Liaises with management and other professionals to compile budgets and other costs.
- Evaluates financial information for management purposes.
- Conducts financial investigations concerning insolvency, fraud, possible mergers, etc..
- Prepares tax returns, advises on tax problems and contests disputed claim before tax official.
- Audits accounts and book-keeping records.
- Prepares financial documents and reports for management, shareholders, statutory or other bodies.
- Plans and oversees implementation of accountancy system and policies.
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Daily tasks:
- Reports regularly on progress to the client or to senior managers.
- Ensures that each stage of the project is progressing on time, on budget and to the right quality standards.
- Negotiates with contractors and suppliers for materials and services.
- Selects and leads a project team.
- Draws up a detailed plan for how to achieve each stage of the project.
- Agrees timescales, costs and resources needed.
- Finds out what the client or company wants to achieve.
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Daily tasks:
- Monitors accounting systems to determine accounts are being maintained effectively and provides information on accounting practices to auditors.
- Ensures invoices and payments are correct and sent out on time.
- Liaises with clients to ensure that payments are made on time and credit limits are not exceeded.
- Produces, collates and reports financial information for managers.
- Maintains profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flow forecasts and other accounting records.
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Daily tasks:
- Performs other clerical duties not elsewhere classified including preparing financial information for management, proof reading printed material and drafting letters in reply to correspondence or telephone enquiries.
- Arranges, classifies and indexes publications, correspondence and other material in libraries and offices.
- Updates and maintains data, correspondence and other records for storage or despatch.
- Receives and pays out cash and cheques and performs closely related clerical duties.
- Prepares and checks invoices and verifies accuracy of records.
- Computes cost of product/services and maintains and balances records of financial transactions.
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Daily tasks:
- Calculates costs and overheads and prepares analyses for management.
- Compiles schedules and distributes or arranges distribution of wages and salaries.
- Processes holiday, sick and maternity pay and travel and subsistence expenses.
- Calculates and records hours worked, wages due, deductions and voluntary contributions.
- Supervises payroll team and develops payroll systems and procedures.
- Prepares provisional balances and reconciles these with appropriate accounts.
- Records and checks accuracy of daily financial transactions.
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Daily tasks:
- Coordinates the activities and resources of finance departments.
- Plans work schedules and assigns tasks to financial clerks.
- Prepares or arranges the preparation of financial reports for managers.
- Oversees the recording and checking of daily financial transactions, the preparation of provisional balances and reconciliation of accounts.
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What can I do with a qualification in Business Administrator?
Chartered and Certified Accountants
Daily tasks:
- Conducts investigations and advises management on financial aspects of productivity, stock holding, sales, new products, etc.
- Prepares periodic accounts, budgetary reviews and financial forecasts.
- Liaises with management and other professionals to compile budgets and other costs.
- Evaluates financial information for management purposes.
- Conducts financial investigations concerning insolvency, fraud, possible mergers, etc..
- Prepares tax returns, advises on tax problems and contests disputed claim before tax official.
- Audits accounts and book-keeping records.
- Prepares financial documents and reports for management, shareholders, statutory or other bodies.
- Plans and oversees implementation of accountancy system and policies.
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Business and Financial Project Management Professionals
Daily tasks:
- Reports regularly on progress to the client or to senior managers.
- Ensures that each stage of the project is progressing on time, on budget and to the right quality standards.
- Negotiates with contractors and suppliers for materials and services.
- Selects and leads a project team.
- Draws up a detailed plan for how to achieve each stage of the project.
- Agrees timescales, costs and resources needed.
- Finds out what the client or company wants to achieve.
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Financial and Accounting Technicians
Daily tasks:
- Monitors accounting systems to determine accounts are being maintained effectively and provides information on accounting practices to auditors.
- Ensures invoices and payments are correct and sent out on time.
- Liaises with clients to ensure that payments are made on time and credit limits are not exceeded.
- Produces, collates and reports financial information for managers.
- Maintains profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flow forecasts and other accounting records.
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Local Government Administrative Occupations
Daily tasks:
- Performs other clerical duties not elsewhere classified including preparing financial information for management, proof reading printed material and drafting letters in reply to correspondence or telephone enquiries.
- Arranges, classifies and indexes publications, correspondence and other material in libraries and offices.
- Updates and maintains data, correspondence and other records for storage or despatch.
- Receives and pays out cash and cheques and performs closely related clerical duties.
- Prepares and checks invoices and verifies accuracy of records.
- Computes cost of product/services and maintains and balances records of financial transactions.
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Book-keepers, Payroll Managers and Wages Clerks
Daily tasks:
- Calculates costs and overheads and prepares analyses for management.
- Compiles schedules and distributes or arranges distribution of wages and salaries.
- Processes holiday, sick and maternity pay and travel and subsistence expenses.
- Calculates and records hours worked, wages due, deductions and voluntary contributions.
- Supervises payroll team and develops payroll systems and procedures.
- Prepares provisional balances and reconciles these with appropriate accounts.
- Records and checks accuracy of daily financial transactions.
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Finance Officers
Daily tasks:
- Coordinates the activities and resources of finance departments.
- Plans work schedules and assigns tasks to financial clerks.
- Prepares or arranges the preparation of financial reports for managers.
- Oversees the recording and checking of daily financial transactions, the preparation of provisional balances and reconciliation of accounts.
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