Candy Kittens
Finance Assistant (12-month Placement)
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Location: The Sweet Factory, Marylebone (hybrid)
Salary: Competitive
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...
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- 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.
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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
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