Assistant Commercial Finance Analyst

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6520
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry Kent
• Department: Finance & Tax
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: West Malling, Kent
• Date Posted: 12.11.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Commercial Finance Analyst to join our team within Vistry Kent, at our West Malling office. As our Assistant Commercial Finance Analyst, you will support the Regional Finance Manager and Regional Finance Director in providing financial and commercial analysis to ensure that the region can progress towards achieving its objectives. You will also assist in the provision of internal and external reporting and financial control.

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
  • Strong academic record
  • Strong GCSE/A-levels or equivalent
  • Working towards recognized accountancy qualification or desire to begin studying ACCA/CIMA
  • Able to process information accurately to strict deadlines
  • Ability to follow up queries proactively and resolve them satisfactorily
  • Previous experience as a Finance Graduate / Finance Assistant within a reputable organisation
  • Very good understanding of Microsoft Office, Outlook and particularly Excel is vital
  • Excellent analytical and organizational skills
  • Strong mathematical and IT skills
  • Ability to work to a high degree of accuracy
  • Good understanding of business
  • Ability to explain technical financial information clearly to non-finance people
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Attention to detail
  • Able to communicate to individuals at all levels
  • Good team working skills
  • Time management
  • Honesty and discretion
  • Willing to work extra to meet deadlines and when the business needs require it

  Desirable...

  • Experience working in a similar role, particularly for a residential house builder
  • Knowledge of the housebuilding industry
  • Experience using COINS (ERP system)
• More about the Assistant Commercial Finance Analyst role...
  • Support with the production of budgets, forecasts and monthly management accounts to strict deadlines.
  • Completion of regular weekly and monthly management information.
  • Monitor regional performance against management plans to ensure that all results, trends and risks are clearly understood and communicated.
  • Raising of Contract Sales invoices.
  • Regular chasing and reporting of outstanding debtors.
  • Drawdowns and Distributions preparation.
  • Cashflow reporting preparation.
  • Support with the collation of Audit data.
  • Assist with payment run processing.
  • Maintain and update the regional financial systems and assist in their development.
  • Ad Hoc reporting and generation of information to support other departments.

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.