Finance Assistant; Placement

Location:

The Sweet Factory, Marylebone (hybrid)

This 12 month placement is perfect for a year in industry for an undergraduate or a new graduate looking for their first role in finance.

The Finance Assistant at Candy Kittens will support with the processing of transactional finance activity across the Group's entities, including accounts payable invoice processing, credit control, and expense administration.

Working closely with the Finance team, you will be essential for keeping maintain a clean, well-controlled transactional ledger across multiple fast-growing brands.

Specific goals for the role include:

Investigating invoice discrepancies and working directly with customers to resolve them

Identifying process efficiency opportunities and ways to automate

This exciting position offers a broad role within a high growth environment.

Support the end-to-end Accounts Payable invoice cycle - from receipt of invoice and coding through to posting into the accounting software - ensuring accuracy and control across all Group entities.

Work closely with the wider Candy Kittens team to manage timely approvals to meet monthly deadlines

Initiate Accounts Receivable credit note processing, ensuring correct coding, VAT treatment, and audit trail are maintained across the customer ledger.

Manage the expenses process end-to-end, holding the business to account on timely submission, completeness, and policy-compliant approval before anything hits the ledger.

Contribute to end-to-end revenue completeness, from EDI portal processing through to collections and credit control to keep customer accounts accurate and on track.

Take ownership of bank reconciliation, ensuring transactions are matched promptly and unreconciled items are investigated and resolved - not estimated or forced through.

This role is suitable for a candidate who is currently studying or recently graduated. A degree in a finance, business or mathematical subject is preferred

The successful candidate will be diligent, detail focused, highly organised, have strong communication skills and be able to maintain accuracy and focus even when under pressure.

The role will appeal to a self-starter who takes real ownership of the core operational disciplines and brings a natural curiosity for improving how things are done

The role requires a candidate with strong aptitude for problem solving and who is highly numerate

Working at Candy Kittens, you will get:

• Unlimited holiday
• Private Healthcare
• Monday breakfast
• Dog friendly office
• Free sweets
• Team lunches
• Monthly socials
• Quarterly team trips

Candy Kittens are here to shake up the sweet game. We're the Gourmet OG's serving you damn irresistible sweets that will inspire a future with no nasties.