Role overview

ID: 2024-6247
Entity: Vistry
Region: Vistry North Central Midlands
Department: Finance & Tax
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - Full Time
Job Location: Stafford, Staffordshire
Date Posted: 04.10.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our team within Vistry North Central Midlands, at our Stafford office. As our Finance Manager you will be responsible for providing support to the Finance Director in providing accurate and timely financial information to all stakeholders for decision making and purposes and ensure the smooth running of the finance team. This will involve weekly and monthly reporting to all departments to continually improve the financial performance of the region.

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/CIMA qualified with a proven track record in producing concise management information
- Experience of financial reporting within a large organisation
- Team Management
- Strong systems experience
- Cash management and forecasting experience
- Excellent Excel Skills
- Variance analysis and interrogation
- Able to produce information accurately and to the stipulated deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills and possess commercial awareness to effectively communicate at all levels
- Experience of implementing new processes and procedures and consistently challenging such processes to improve the quality of output
Desirable –
- Experience of joint venture accounting
- Good understanding and experience of financial governance and compliance
- Construction or Housebuilding Industry experience
- Knowledge of VAT, DRC and CIS
- Experience of using COINS would be beneficial.
More about the Finance Manager role...
- Ensure that regional finance and accounting requirements are accurately and efficiently carried out in accordance with recognised accounting standards, Group requirements and within set deadlines
- Ensure the key assumptions, risks and opportunities under-pinning business financial performance/project performance are robustly challenged, clearly understood and managed
- Ensure budgets, forecasts and long-term strategic plans reflect the ambition and aims of the business are challenging but achievable, regularly reviewed and updated
- Financial management of Joint Ventures in the region including monthly reporting to the Joint Venture boards
- Key focus on cash management including management of working capital
- Ensure routine processes are embedded across the business to ensure risk is highlighted and managed - eg limits of authority, contract review process
- Ensure transaction process is efficient, processes streamlined and waste minimal
- Management of the business unit finance team
- Prepare/review monthly finance board papers
- Review/management of business cashflow
- Produce miscellaneous commercial and financial reports as required
- Deal with half year and full year audit queries and manage any Joint Venture audit requirements.

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.