FP&A Accountant

Role overview

• ID: 2024-5653
• Entity: Vistry
• Region: Vistry South East
• Department: Finance & Tax
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Caterham, Surrey
• Date Posted: 13.05.2024

We have a fantastic opportunity for an FP&A Accountant to join our team within Vistry South East, at our Caterham office in Surrey. As our FP&A Accountant, you will support the Regional Financial Controller and Regional Finance Director in providing financial and commercial analysis and assisting 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
  • Experience within all accounting principals, including production of financial Statements and reporting
  • 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 the 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
  • Honest and discretion
  • Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it

  Desirable...

  • Working towards recognized accountancy qualification or desire to begin studying ACCA/CIMA
  • Experience working in a similar role particularly for a residential housebuilder
  • Knowledge of the housebuilding industry
  • Experience using COINS (ERP system)
  • Experience of using Anaplan
• More about the FP&A Accountant role...
  • Support with the production of budgets, forecasts, and monthly management accounts to strict deadlines.
  • Completion of regular weekly and monthly management information relating to our joint venture activities.
  • Monitor performance against management plans to ensure that all results, trends, and risks are clearly understood and communicated.
  • Control of overheads and raising of accruals, prepayments, and relevant journals.
  • Regular chasing and reporting of outstanding sundry debtors.
  • Raising ad hoc Sales invoices.
  • Maintain and update the financial systems and assist in their development.
  • Ad Hoc reporting and generation of information
  • Provide general support to the team as and when 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.