Cost Controller

Southern Water•Worthington, MN

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

The key purpose of the job is to provide the governance, administration, monitoring and reporting of Water Network expenditure including £15m of Leakage expenditure across all regions and varied departments of the company, both internal and external. To 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 OFWAT mandatory targets.

Requirements

A full, UK drivers licence & access to a vehicle
Strong interpersonal skills
Self-motivated and good organisational skills
Ability to work under pressure, priotising workload

Nice To Haves

Suitable engineering qualification

Responsibilities

The post requires the ability to multi-track the varied expenditures occurring on a day-to-day basis, coupled with a good engineering & project management and financial background to set these expenditures in context.
The ability and confidence to interrogate varied financial packages both pro-actively and re-actively, and to communicate appropriate actions to all members of the Water Network team is key.
Budget & Expenditure: Track commitments, payments, expenditure against budget, identify variances, report & resolve, collate data in an auditable format for any internal & external query.
CAPEX - Leakage Construction: Authorising Ellipse Jobs in BAS WBS Approval, Validating Ellipse jobs, WBS Codes, Estimated Price in Construction Database, Authorising completed & Billed Ellipse Jobs Payment Approval in BAS CPA Manager, Validating Ellipse job's data accuracy, & Completion Price in Construction Database.
Record Leakage OPEX - Leakage Detection & Resources: Raise Purchase Orders against Leakage & Water projects & codes, Match Invoices, obtain POD from client, and approve for Payment, Track payments made & apply to planned budget, report progress & predicted outturn, Resolve Retrospective Orders, Resolve Missing Invoices, uplift PO's, CE1 Extensions.
Liaise with Procurement resolving queries, codes, documentation, late processing.
Resolve outstanding issues created by Water Management.
Receive Contract Payment Application, validate payment requested & identify recharges.
Prepare Contract Payment Certification (CPC).
Procurement Card, authoriser of plant and materials.
Leadership and Management: Needs to be assertive and clear about decision-making as every spend item on the capital programme must be justified.
Must have the ability to have difficult conversations with external Service Providers.
Good time management skills.

Benefits

We offer an environment where senior professionals can make a meaningful impact, influence major strategic decisions, and drive long-term value creation
We’ll support your growth and development
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or any other protected characteristic.
If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
Our purpose is big. Our impact is huge. And we know that every single one of us has the power, through our actions, to positively change society and the environment for good. It’s why careers with us have real meaning.
Because, if you’re driven and ambitious, we can offer you huge opportunities for personal growth, professional development and constant innovation.
Forever evolving. Forever focused on doing the right thing, we empower and encourage everyone to play to their strengths and to help us shape a fair and positive future for all.
We believe in Water for Life.
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.
Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution.