Purchase Ledger Clerk

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6406
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry West Yorkshire
• Department: Finance & Tax
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
• Date Posted: 01.11.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Purchase Ledger Clerk to join our team within Vistry West Yorkshire, at our Wakefield office. As our Purchase Ledger Clerk, you will process and maintain accounts payable records and provide financial administrative support to regional finance teams, ensuring timely, quality financial information is provided and maintained in accordance with group procedures and policies.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • 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
  • IT literate including MS Excel/Outlook
  • High volume processing environment with good knowledge of end-to-end accounts payable function
  • Ability to resolve and reconcile issues with limited supervision
  • Self-motivated and ability to work on own initiative
  • Time management and organizational skills to manage workload
  • Ability to communicate to all stakeholders, both internally and externally
  • Ability to work as part of a wider team

  Desirable...

  • COINS finance system experience
  • Construction / Housebuilding industry experience
• More about the Purchase Ledger Clerk role...
  • Accurate processing, coding and matching of invoices in accordance with group policies
  • Liaising with suppliers to resolve invoicing queries in a professional manner, on a timely basis and to comply with statutory requirements
  • Liaising with procurement, commercial teams & sales as necessary to resolve issues
  • Ensure all invoices have the appropriate approvals to be passed for payment
  • Supplier Statement reconciliations
  • GRN / Receipt processing
  • Filing / Scanning all invoices and paperwork to ensure appropriate records are kept
  • Handling all post/emails related to invoices and any other associated duties
  • Checking subcontractor payments prior to release for payment
  • Checking VAT/CIS are correctly processed
  • Credit Note resolutions
  • Supporting the finance team 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.

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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.