Trainee Management Accountant

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6360
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry Cornwall South West
• Department: Finance & Tax
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Exeter, Devon
• Date Posted: 10.10.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Management Accountant to join our team within Vistry Cornwall South West, at our Exeter office in Devon. As our Trainee Management Accountant, you will be supporting the Finance team and using the core financial systems, which are COINS, Anaplan and Microsoft Excel. This is a great opportunity to join a successful business to continue your career in Accountancy and Finance. 

We are pleased to say, this role can accommodate agile working arrangements.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Agile working possible (dependent on role)
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Knowledge of Microsoft office applications and good knowledge of Excel
  • Interest in having Finance as a career with aim to study CIMA, would suit an AAT fully qualified wanting to take the next step
  • Keen to gain experience in busy office environment dealing with many different departments.
  • Numerate with a strong attention to detail
  • Confident, professional manner 
  • A desire to participate in problem solving
  • Ability to take ownership for tasks and processes

  Desirable –

  • Working experience in a finance department.
  • Strong desire to learn and be challenged on a day to day basis.
  • Good Microsoft Excel skills or the aptitude to acquire them.
• More about the Trainee Management Accountant role...
  • Preparing month end reconciliations and management accounts to a draft position.
  • Completing the Cashbook and bank reconciliation on a weekly basis.
  • Producing and communicating the weekly reports to relevant staff members.
  • Attend weekly progress meeting to update expected legal completion dates.
  • Liaising with solicitors and the sales team to approve completion statements and ad hoc requests.
  • Input journals as required and carry out cost investigations as requested.
  • Raise Accounts Receivable invoices as required.
  • Support with collation of Audit data requirements.
  • Regular chasing and reporting of outstanding sundry debtors.
  • Monthly Sales and Marketing cost reviews.
  • Ad Hoc reporting and generation of information to support other departments.
  • Assist with production of the budgets and forecasts as required.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

#LI-TP1

Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.