Finance Assistant (Placement)

Candy Kittens; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holiday

Private Healthcare

Monday breakfast

Dog friendly office

Free sweets

Team lunches

Monthly socials

Quarterly team trips

Job summary

Candy Kittens invites applications for a 12-month Finance Assistant placement at The Sweet Factory, Marylebone. The role supports transactional finance activity across the Group, including accounts payable, credit control, and expense administration.

Ideal candidates are undergraduates or recent graduates with a finance/business/maths background, strong numeracy, and keen attention to detail. The position is hybrid with a friendly, fast-growing team.

Qualifications

• Currently studying or recently graduated in finance, business or maths.
• Proactive and detail-oriented with strong numerical skills.
• Good communication skills and ability to maintain accuracy under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end Accounts Payable cycle from receipt to posting in accounting software.
• Collaborate with the Candy Kittens team to obtain timely approvals to meet monthly deadlines.
• Initiate Accounts Receivable credit notes with correct coding, VAT treatment and audit trails.
• Manage expenses end-to-end, ensuring timely submission and policy-compliant approval.
• Contribute to revenue completeness from EDI processing through to collections and credit control.
• Take ownership of bank reconciliations and resolve unreconciled items.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Numerate

Education

Finance, Business or Maths degree

Tools

Excel

Accounting software

Job description

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.

What you'll be responsible for...

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.

What we're looking for...

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

Why work for us?

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

About us

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.