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job requisition id JR4627
Closing Date
03/01/2025
Job Title: Cost Controller
Location: Otterbourne, Hampshire/ Falmer, East Sussex/ Durrington, West Sussex - Driving licence is essential due to site visits
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours
Salary: Up to £48,000 per annum
An interesting opportunity to be part of a growing function supporting the Water Networks contract management team at a pivotal moment as we are entering into our next investment phase, AMP 8!
Committed to administer, monitor and report up to £24M of our annual Water Network Expenditure, to ensure the planned progression of both current and previous years budgets and to resolve enquiries and data requirements from management across the company. Are you passionate to make a difference bringing your commercial skill set to make the most of this opportunity?
As a cost controller, you will be managing supplier performance against contractual obligations within our operational teams working closely with external contractors as well as engaging with internal stakeholders within our sites. You will be co-ordinating between Opex and Capital elements of business to enable Operational Expenditure of approximately £1,000,000 to proceed under Capital funding.
You will be responsible for establishing relevant governance and development and maintenance of budget, accruals, cash flows and expenditures within the repair and maintenance contracts for Southern Water. You will configure and produce reports for regular financial reviews and present progress reports at Governance Meetings for conveyance to Head of Function, thereby maintaining the business confidence in the programme’s progression to achieve our regulator, OFWAT’s mandatory targets.
With your analytical skills, you will be interrogating Southern Water’s corporate financial system to assemble accurate assessments of financial progress to provide up to date costing reports to enable accurate submissions. You will be setting up specific cost centre codes for our operational teams to monitor leakage activities on the company financial systems and sharing conveyance of data from approved ASB submission to specific operational teams and controlling cost codes to enable collation of data on both performance and financial criteria.
Your key accountabilities would also include:
1. Pro-actively identifying charges miscoded within function and to outside functions and schemes and ensure their redirection to correct budget.
2. Ensure data quality is of a good standard in the Database and financial systems and best practice is employed in all accounting work.
3. Source, review, analyse and provide relevant financial information to managers.
4. Support and review the annual budget process and revised forecasts throughout the year.
Your commercial contract management knowledge with clear direction and authorisation limits understanding governance constraints to ensure all work is completed within this framework is critical for this role. With your confidence in influencing and being assertive on decision making in justifying every spend on the programme, you will be managing challenging conversations with external service providers to achieve the intended benefit in controlling our expenditures. Thorough understanding of financial budgets, procedures, forecasting and reporting pertinent to the role.
To be successful, it is essential for you to have strong experience of working within contracts management with an exposure to have created, monitored and controlled governance process relating to cost management. Background in clean water operations will be ideal however we welcome applicants with sound knowledge of applying commercial expertise to get the agreed value contractually with our service providers. Previous experience working within a project or Water operations environment will be highly desirable. Qualified to HND level, Degree or HND in suitable engineering subject will be beneficial although not essential.
Interested in the role?
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome
We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Need flexibility in your work?
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role? #LI-Hybrid
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