Finance Assistant - Kingston Park, PE2 9GA
Make a Home at Taylor Wimpey
At Taylor Wimpey, we don’t just build houses; we build futures. Not just for the people who live in our homes, but for our own people too. When we bring our collective skills together, we make amazing things happen - for ourselves, for each other and for our customers. There are incredible opportunities on your doorstep, and we want you to discover them all.
With 22 regional offices across the UK and operations in Spain, we bring our vision to life locally. Here, you’ll be given the tools to develop your skills and the freedom to explore new avenues. Share your ideas, experience a no-blame culture, and shape your work around your life.
Every single one of us plays a vital role in bringing to life incredible places and spaces, where anyone can thrive. We believe in making a positive difference to our planet, as well as to people.
Home to work that matters, and you can be a part of it.
Job Summary
We are seeking a proactive and detail-focused Finance Assistant to join a small but growing finance team within a manufacturing environment. This role plays an important part in ensuring the accuracy of financial processing, reporting, and internal invoicing. The business is undergoing significant improvement of processes, costing structures, and use of its ERP system (Sage X3), so the successful candidate will be someone with strong logic, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a meaningful impact.
The Finance Assistant will work closely with the Finance Manager and an existing Finance Assistant and will support both Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger as well as manufacturing-related analysis.
Primary Responsibilities
Sales Ledger & Invoicing
* Ensuring accurate and timely customer invoicing, including internal invoicing cycles to Taylor Wimpey group companies (operating on 4-5 week cycles).
* Chasing overdue customer invoices and managing related queries.
* Allocating customer receipts accurately.
Purchase Ledger & Transaction Processing
* Assisting with daily financial transactions and bookkeeping activities.
* Processing Purchase Ledger invoices and ensuring correct VAT codes.
* Managing the shared finance mailbox and responding to all finance-related queries.
* Supporting weekly payment runs and allocating all supplier payments.
* Performing supplier statement reconciliations.
Month-End Responsibilities
* Processing journals.
* Maintaining monthly Fixed Assets, Prepayments and Accruals schedules.
* Performing monthly bank reconciliations.
* Completing monthly processing checklists to ensure reconciliations and controls are fully completed.
Supporting production of:
* Monthly Cost Reports
* Monthly Profit Forecasting
* Monthly Cashflow Reports Data, Reporting & Analysis
* Extracting data from Sage X3 through SQL queries (training available).
* Supporting manufacturing-related analysis, costing and logic-based investigation.
* Performing initial reviews to identify reporting discrepancies or control issues and escalating as needed.
* Assisting in the ongoing improvement of reporting processes, data flow, and system usage.
Systems & Processes
* Work with Sage X3 (ERP) - including manual processes and SQL-extracted reporting.
* Support the team as the business works to improve its pricing structure, costing logic, and overall financial controls.
* Actively contribute to streamlining internal processes and ensuring more efficient use of X3 across functions.
Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements
* Strong sense of logic and a proactive, positive attitude.
* Interest in data extraction and systems (SQL/ERP experience beneficial but not essential). Ability to work in a manufacturing-driven finance environment rather than a service-based one. Someone who enjoys improving processes and making a difference.
* AAT is helpful but not essential.
* Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a small team. Comfortable working across both Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger.
What we offer at Taylor Wimpey
At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.
We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.
We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.
If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey.
Inclusivity Statement
As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
Internal Applicants:
Please inform your line manager if you wish to apply for this role.