Finance Apprentice

Role overview

• ID: 2024-5498
• Entity: Vistry Services
• Region: Vistry Services
• Department: Finance & Tax
• Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - Full Time
• Job Location: Kings Hill, Kent
• Date Posted: 10.04.2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Apprentice to join our team within Vistry Services, at our office in Kings Hill, Kent. As our Finance Apprentice you will support the Treasury Manager and Senior Treasury Manager in the managing the Group’s daily banking operations.

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
  • 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
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Excellent communications skills
  • Good team working skills
  • Time management skills
  • Honesty and discretion
  • Good understanding of Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook
  • Excellent analytical skills and organisation skills
  • Good Maths and IT skills
  • Ability to work to high degree of accuracy
• More about the Finance Apprentice role...
  • Daily reconciliation of cashbook transactions
  • Processing payments on banking platforms
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Processing trade ledger payment runs
  • Processing cheques, including cancelling and re-issuing cheques where necessary
  • Reconciling bank statements and PDQ card transactions
  • Issuing daily net cash reports to management
  • Raising Sales ledger invoices
  • Regional support of cashbook transactions and bank reconciliations
  • Bank liaisons
  • Month end reconciliations
  • Help establish better processes within the Treasury Team including assisting with projects
  • To work with regional teams including finance and external legal teams to ensure all daily activities are carried out accurately and any discrepancies are resolved in a timely manner
  • To maintain productive relationships with counterparts within the Group’s core banks
  • To attend departmental meetings as required

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

At Vistry Group, we build more than homes. We develop sustainable communities across all sectors of the UK housing market through our leading housing brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Delivered through Vistry Housebuilding, Countryside Partnerships and Vistry Works with the support of Vistry Services, our values of integrity, caring, and quality continue to shape all we do.

We’re proud that our UK Green Building Council membership, 2021 Large Housebuilder of the Year award and status as a UK top-five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating allows us to transform land into thriving spaces. We’re also 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. From memories and communities to worthwhile careers, we’re 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.