Finance Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Castleforge Partners

Description

About Castleforge

Founded in 2010, Castleforge is a leading UK-based private real estate investor that combines research-led investment themes with vertical integration and in-house operating platforms.

We invest in real estate located in and around select UK and European cities.

Our team has a proven track record of investing throughout the capital structure and across asset classes, adding value with operational expertise.

Castleforge act as a trusted real estate investment partner to provide consistent returns while making a positive impact in the communities in which we invest.

We strive always to be at the forefront of change, developing in-house capabilities and a thoughtful view on the world that together create a sustainable competitive advantage.

About the role
This role is part of a dynamic, fast-growing and entrepreneurial business. As a Finance Assistant, you will provide best in class support to our internal and external customers. This role is critical to producing and maintaining complete, accurate and timely financial information. As a team we work to implement strong financial controls and drive continuous improvement of finance processes. This role requires a keen attention to detail and a "hands-on" approach to managing financial information.


Example Responsibilities

• Collation of all invoices for approval and payment recommendation
• Maintaining data within Kefron (Invoice recognition system)
• Maintaining payment queries from External Administrators and suppliers
• Support with daily and weekly finance tasks
• Processing of Finance inbox (i.e. invoices, supplier comms)
• Assisting the Financial team with bank account reconciliation
• Supporting the team with various tasks for the preparation of the month end process
• Support documenting business processes to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Electronic filing of documents through SharePoint and OneDrive
• Ad Hoc project work
• Managing reporting deadlines and different priorities
• Selfstarter, highly organised with good attention to detail
• Proactively communicates with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Adapts to take on new challenges but recognise when to seek guidance.
• Naturally inquisitive with a cando attitude

We value vision, entrepreneurial thinking, an uncompromising focus on results, collaboration and responsibility; if this aligns well with you, you'll likely thrive with Castleforge.

The opportunities to develop your career within our small, successful and growing private equity firm are only limited by your imagination; you'll build relationships across our group including our operating businesses, you'll work closely with our partners and senior management, and be given a huge amount of trust, freedom and responsibility.

Here is what else you can expect from us:

• A team of passionate, inclusive and collaborative colleagues
• A comprehensive compensation (including discretionary bonus) and benefits package, including private medical, dental, and life insurance
• 25 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Enhanced familyfriendly policies
• Personal development and wellbeing budgets to spend at your discretion
• Fantastic central London office with flexibility to work a day from home each week
• You may also have experience as: Finance Assistant, Senior Finance Assistant, Accounts Assistant, Accounts Executive, Finance Administrator, Accounts Payable Administrator, Accounts Receivable Administrator, Payments Clerk,_