Finance Assistant

at  Castelan

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Castelan Group is a specialist in electrical and furniture warranties, claims handling, insurance validation, inspection services, and customer care. With over 1,500,000 UK households benefiting from Castelan Group’s services, we provide value to retail and insurance businesses and peace of mind to customers and policyholders. Castelan also provides high quality furniture care services to many of our retail clients.

EXPERIENCE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED

• Must have a methodical and numeric brain and be very comfortable dealing with numbers.
• Must be comfortable dealing with different IT platforms with an ability to learn different systems.
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel will be necessary. (or learnt very quickly)
• A working knowledge of Sage or other finance platforms would be advantageous.
• Previous experience of working under pressure in a methodical and organised way to ensure tasks are completed before their deadline.
  A standard of behavioural and technical competencies required of all job roles to help the organisation to achieve a level of excellence.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Contribute to the running of the Finance department – specifically Purchase and Sales Ledger support and cover for the Assistant Accountant.

KEY DUTIES

• Assist in the production of monthly management accounts
• Assist with overhead P/L posting (Inc EGL and DPD)
• Cheque Preparation
• Scanning of payment – P/L holiday cover
• Credit Card costing / posting
• Sales ledger - entering of invoices on client platforms
• Bank reconciliation
• Other ad hoc tasks as required by management.