Cost Analysis / Financial Contract Admin - Residential Repairs - Elevate Everywhere : Job Details

Job Title: Junior Quantity Surveyor / Finance Contract Admin

Location: London

Salary: £28,000 - £33,000 depending on experience

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Elevate Everywhere Ltd is one of the UK’s market leaders in delivering centralised community energy projects. As a result of our continuing success, we are experiencing rapid and extensive growth in all business sectors; as such we have an exceptional opportunity for a Junior Quantity Surveyor/ Finance Contract Admin based in the London area.

We are looking for a proactive person with strong commercial and financial understanding and with a good eye for detail. Someone who is motivated and hardworking, a team player with excellent communication skills. A good problem solver and keen to develop new and improve existing systems and processes. This is a pivotal supporting role who will be in charge of key financial processes from quotation to financial completion.

Key Requirements

• Formal qualifications in Quantity Surveying, accountancy or similar technical training
• Experience in similar roles working within residential repairs/servicing and plant room and has worked on a daily basis financially closing jobs.
• Strong commercial and financial understanding
• Good IT skills and proficient Excel knowledge
• Ability to communicate with all levels of staff and management, including direct contact with our clients.

Key Responsibilities

Cost Control

• Monitor job costs and expenditures, track variations, and assist in the preparation of job costing. Identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Reviewing costs against estimated budgets

Suppliers Management

• Identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Liaise with new potential suppliers, manage existing accounts
• Reconcile collection notes against purchase orders
• Ensure that billable material/parts are invoiced upon job completion to facilitate stock monitoring
• Assist Managers with job costing and quotations
• Maintain accurate filing

Valuations/Invoicing

• Actively Identify completed jobs ready to be financially closed to be costed and added to the batch.
• Update Clients portal based on information/evidence required upon financial completion of jobs.
• Reconcile Clients portals against Internal Systems
• Actively track/ check purchase orders to allocate costs accordingly.
• Engage with the clients and internal team when fees have been remeasured or rejected to facilitate gathering of missing evidence.
• Assist in the evaluation and preparation of claims, as well as participate in dispute resolution processes, such as negotiations and mediation.

Admin

• Maintain accurate filing.
• Ensuring all Admin duties are kept up to date.

Key Requirements

• Formal qualifications in Quantity Surveying, accountancy or similar technical training and/or experience in similar roles would be valued and looked for in this role.
• Strong commercial and financial understanding
• Good IT skills and proficient Excel knowledge
• Ability to communicate with all levels of staff and management, including direct contact with our clients.

The Package

• Competitive salary (depending upon experience)

• The working week will be 37.5 hours.

• Full Time, permanent role.

• Company Pension Scheme

• Sickness insurance

• Death in Service

• 24 Days not including bank holidays.

After successful completion of probation:

• CPD opportunities
• Private Health Insurance
• Third party Mortgage advice

Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Contracts Administrator, Finance Administrator, Cost Analysis, Finance Admin Trainee Project Surveyor, Project Quantity Surveyor, Quantity Surveyor, Project QS, Estimator, Trainee Quantity Surveyor, Assistant Quantity Surveyor, Trainee QS, Project Estimator, Project Finance Controller, Project Controller, Financial Controller, Assistant QS will also be considered for this role.