Finance Manager

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6359
• 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 Finance Manager to join our team within Vistry Cornwall South West, at our Exeter office in Devon. As our Finance Manager, you will be report to the Finance Director and is responsible for the production of weekly, monthly, and annual management reports and Statutory Accounts. This is a front-end role liaising closely with other departments to ensure timely and accurate information is presented to the local Board and Division.

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
  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
  • 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
  • ACA / ACCA or CIMA qualified
  • Proven track record in producing concise management information.
  • 5 or more years post qualifications experience.
  • Experience of implementing new processes and procedures and consistently challenging such processes to improve the quality of input.
  • Very strong knowledge of Excel
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Ability to prioritise work to meet deadlines
  • Building relationships with commercial teams
  • Ability to follow up queries and obtain explanations of variances to budget.
  • Having strong inter-personal skills to enable effective communication at all levels.
  • Possess commercial acumen
  • Be flexible in their approach
  • Be proactive in dealing with issues
  • Ability to work on own initiative
  • Ability to work well in a team

  Desirable –

  • Experience of working in the construction sector
  • Experience of COINS accounting system
  • Knowledge of Anaplan
• More about the Finance Manager role...
  • Preparation of management accounts and supporting commentary on a monthly basis.
  • Maintaining and updating the WIP summary, challenging assumptions and calculating the month end WIP number for inclusion in the management accounts.
  • Reconciling project gross profit to management accounts gross profit, verifying reconciling items.
  • Provide support to the Finance Director in production of monthly Board packs.
  • Monthly Joint Venture reporting both internally and to JV partners.
  • Business Partner with Sales, Operations and Commercial to drive performance of business.
  • Ensuring integrity of data on COINS and Anaplan.
  • Reviewing posting of house sale completion statements and journals in COINS.
  • Monitoring daily bank movements including actual and 3 month forecast reporting.
  • Updating the sales forecast on a monthly basis and reviewing with senior management.
  • Ensuring invoices are raised in line with the sales forecast, analysing variances with the QS.
  • Updating and reviewing the retention tracker and bonds forecast with senior management, setting targets for completion.
  • Monitoring customer care costs, ensuring costs are recharged to subcontractors wherever possible.
  • Reviewing cost to completes and raising questions at the monthly project review meetings.
  • Manage production of weekly sales and build reports.
  • Prepare Working Day 1 flash reports to FD and Division.
  • Challenging management and identifying areas for investigation.
  • Improving systems and procedures.
  • Preparation of schedules for statutory audit.
  • Work closely with the Finance team to ensure integrity of the accounting system.
  • Work closely with the FD and MD in preparing ad-hoc management reports as required.
  • Liaise with and help lead reporting initiatives with the Finance Director.

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.

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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.