Cost Planner

2 weeks ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom idibu Full time
Cost Planner Job Description

Thames Water is seeking a skilled Cost Planner to join their Water Resources Management Plan team. As a Cost Planner, you will play a crucial role in delivering a £50m investment programme in AMP8 by coordinating, monitoring, and reporting program and project costs.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide cost planning support to the programme manager across a portfolio of complex projects, identifying and understanding variances across projects and supporting the project/programme manager to resolve these.
  • Work alongside the programme manager to monitor and forecast Unbriefed allocations and drawdowns to eliminate the risk of double counting.
  • Complete monthly reporting with high-quality analytics to enable quality and timely decision-making and onward reporting.
  • Responsible for input of financial and project governance elements of Investment Committee papers and Business Cases, 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.
  • Raise purchase orders on SAP and goods receipt invoices, ensuring transparent and auditable reporting has been provided to justify the associated spending.
  • Work with programme leads to establish a project structure and WBS for the new AMP, which will help track budgets and the programme.
  • Provide leadership and guidance to project teams regarding best practices for cost management (Capex and Opex), financial governance, etc.
  • Maintain SAP with information about budgets, forecasts, actuals, and slippage, as provided by the team, tracking key business milestones. Assure the quality of the data and compliance with financial and corporate policies on cost recognition.
  • Led monthly project/programme meetings to capture accurate VOWD updates from Internal and external Clients and ongoing management of associated accruals.
  • Support Budget setting and financial re-forecasting for their functional business area.
Requirements:
  • Cost Planner/ Financial Controller or Senior analyst with proven experience, ideally with regulatory reporting experience gained in a commercial or project controls environment.
  • Knowledge of SAP transactions (or similar finance platform) and adept in capturing/analysing costs, forecasting, project information & governance, and supply chain.
  • Can demonstrate best practice and compliance in managing Totex projects with multiple WBSs and workstreams.
  • A good working knowledge of Planning Software (preferably P6, Microsoft Project).
  • Regulatory reporting experience gained in a commercial or project controls environment.
What We Offer:
  • Competitive salary from £48,000 to £52,000 per annum.
  • 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
  • Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
  • Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
  • Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive. Water is life's great leveller. But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever.

Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.
We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complimentary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge.
Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

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