Finance Analyst
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Contract
- Full-time
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Salary sacrifice car scheme available to all employees
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing to up to 39 days with service
- 2 Volunteering days per annum
- Private medical insurance, with employee paid cover
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Competitive pension scheme through salary sacrifice
- Life assurance at 4 x your annual salary
- Share save and share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- Strong academic record
- Strong GCSE/A levels or equivalent
- Experience within Joint Venture accounting principles, 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
- 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)
- Completion of monthly JV and Core balance sheets, highlighting any issues or areas of risk to Regional Finance Manager and Regional Finance Director.
- Completion of cashbooks and monthly bank reconciliations.
- Posting of completion statements upon plot completion.
- Control of joint venture overheads and raising of accruals, prepayments, and relevant journals.
- Regular chasing and reporting of outstanding sundry debtors.
- Raising ad hoc Sales invoices.
- Raising contract sales valuation invoices.
- Raising purchase orders and coding invoices for relevant joint venture overhead costs.
- Processing monthly payment runs.
- Maintenance of VAT return blocked items and any other VAT related queries from Tax team
- Maintain and update the joint ventures financial systems and assist in their development.
- Ad Hoc reporting and generation of information to support joint venture activities.
- Provide general support to the team as and when required.