£29,000 - £32,000 basic salary per annum (depending on experience) + benefits.
About PC Group
PC Group delivers the essential platform to build your business with the right people.
Our collection of compliance brands deliver expert background checking for a modern market.
PC Group's commercial offerings are organised into various brands including:
Personnel Checks - DBS & other pre employment checks for businesses
TaxiPlus - Background Checks for Taxi Drivers
Check out our careers page to get a feel for what it's like to work at PC Group
What You Will Be Working On a Finance Assistant
You'll join our Finance team to focus broadly on 2 key areas: maintaining accurate trial balances across multiple group companies that supports the Finance Manager in the preparation of monthly management accounts. Additionally, overseeing the day-to-day transactional finance side of the business.
The role covers purchase ledger, bookkeeping, control account reconciliations, invoicing, reporting and operational support.
What Your Typical Day-to-day Will Look Like
A typical day in this role will vary depending on where you are in the week, month, or quarter, as the team operates to a structured financial calendar that shapes priorities throughout. At any given time, you'll be supporting the Finance Manager across a broad range of responsibilities, which means no two days will look exactly the same and a degree of context switching across different areas of the business is very much part of the role.
On a day-to-day basis, you can expect to be working through bookkeeping tasks across multiple bank accounts, running bank reconciliations, and keeping the purchase ledger up to date. A key part of the role will be to understand and cover a sales order import process through established system processes and sending out regular reports such as the daily bank position report. When issues or exceptions arise during imports, you'll be expected to investigate and resolve these, working across internal and bespoke systems to keep things running smoothly.
As the week and month progress, focus shifts towards more cyclical tasks. Payment runs need to be prepared and processed, sales invoices raised accurately and on time, and monthly invoicing cycles managed to ensure revenue data aligns with what's coming through from operational systems. Towards month-end, the pace picks up as you support the Finance Manager with trial balance preparation, balance sheet reconciliations, and the broader management accounts process.
Beyond the core numbers, the role also touches other parts of the business. You may be asked to provide cover for finance related customer support, helping to investigate and resolve finance-related queries and tickets. There's also a project and improvement dimension, supporting the Finance Manager with finance initiatives, documenting processes, and contributing to the development of a more tech-enabled finance function. It's a varied, hands-on role that suits someone comfortable moving between detail-oriented tasks and broader business support.
What You'll Bring With You
A methodical and organised approach to your work
Strong attention to detail
Comfort working at pace and switching between routine & ad-hoc tasks
A curiosity for systems, data and how the two fit together
Willingness to support cross functional teams and colleagues when required
What Experience You Will Have
You should be able to demonstrate at least 12 months experience working in a comparable finance role.
You will be skilled in the following core areas: purchase ledger, bookkeeping, reconciliations, trial balance, transactions (high volume) & use of excel.
It would be great, but not essential to be skilled in the following areas: month end close, multi-entity accounting, process improvement and automation.
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The interview process
Our interview process involves the following stages:
Application (see below)
A short call with one of our team
A competency interview, to assess your ability to fulfil the requirements of the role - as part of this interview stage you will be asked to conduct a financial task-based assessment, which will be explained to you prior to the interview.
A culture-based interview, to assess your compatibility with our team and outlook
Our culture
Our culture is super important to us and an important consideration when bringing on new team members. We are a business who embraces change well and we like to work in teams as opposed to independently. We fundamentally have a culture of care - a warm, collaborative and welcoming environment where people help and support one another.
Why PC Group?
PC Group is a compelling employment proposition in Lancashire We offer hybrid working to all team members with a minimum 2 days per week in state-of-the-art offices in Blackburn town centre with great transport links. Some of our roles are fully remote too
We are a family-owned business without heavy corporate burdens or red tape slowing us down.
We have a huge amount of diverse departments with opportunities for vertical and horizontal progression. These functional departments include sales, customer service, compliance & administration, finance, marketing, product development, software development, people, management, leadership & strategy.
We have a comprehensive collection (and growing) of workplace benefits including: hybrid working, additional holidays each year, additional paid break/lunch times each day to name a few.
Others include:
Competitive basic salary dependent on experience
Additional individual and team-based bonuses and incentive schemes
A thorough on-boarding and induction programme
Continual personal and professional development
Following an initial training period you would have access to a hybrid working structure, working between an award winning office environment and working from home on certain days of the week.
Working within a company passionate about our people, our values, our culture and the services we offer.
Regular team activities and celebrations – organised and decided on by the team – anything is possible – meals, bowling, pottery, games night, quizzes, murder mystery, escape rooms …
We are a BCorp This means we have achieved the highest standards for a company's overall social and environmental impact. Read more about PC Groups commitment to a more inclusive, equitable and regenerative economy.
Personnel Checks is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our workforce. Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and each employee feels respected and able to give of their best.
To that end the purpose of this commitment is to provide equality and fairness for all in our employment and not to discriminate on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.
All employees, whether part-time, full-time or temporary, will be treated fairly and with respect. Selection for employment, promotion, training or any other benefit will be on the basis of aptitude and ability. All employees will be helped and encouraged to develop their full potential and the talents and resources of the workforce will be fully utilised to maximise the efficiency of the organisation.