Exciting opportunity alert! Join us as a Cost Planner for Thames Water's Water Resources Management Plan. You'll be crucial in delivering a £50m investment programme in AMP8 by coordinating, monitoring, and reporting program and project costs. Don't miss this chance to drive impactful projects and contribute to our success!What you’ll be doing as a Cost Planner
1. Provide cost planning support to the programme manager across a portfolio of complex projects. Identify and understand variances across projects and support the project/programme manager to resolve these.
2. Work alongside the programme manager to monitor and forecast Unbriefed allocations and drawdowns to eliminate the risk of double counting.
3. Complete monthly reporting with high-quality analytics to enable quality and timely decision-making and onward reporting.
4. Responsible for input of financial and project governance elements of Investment Committee papers and Business Cases. Responsible for ensuring SAP alignment with papers submitted and completion of the relevant processes to facilitate the timely release of funds once the budget has been approved.
5. Raise purchase orders on SAP and goods receipt invoices, ensuring transparent and auditable reporting has been provided to justify the associated spending.
6. Work with programme leads to establish a project structure and WBS for the new AMP, which will help track budgets and the programme.
7. Provide ...