Assistant Cost Manager

MGroup Water; Haighton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water management company in the UK seeks an Assistant Cost Manager to support the Contract Commercial team. You will be responsible for cost management and reporting, ensuring accurate financial tracking and analysis. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical and organisational skills, a proactive approach, and prior experience in cost management. This role offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health care and pension schemes.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

25 days annual leave

Personal Accident Cover

Qualifications

• Experience in cost management, with strong analytical, numerical and data processing skills.
• Proactive approach with a commitment to delivering key outcomes.
• Organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide and validate costs related to subcontractor, plant, materials, and vehicles.
• Process and review staff timesheets.
• Cost coding and setting up new cost centres.

Skills

Cost management experience

Analytical skills

Numerical skills

Data processing skills

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Effective teamwork

Proactive approach

Job description

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and Client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We're problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

Want to be part of it?

This role will be within our Water and Wastewater Capital project delivery team. Our team delivers large‑scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long‑term while protecting the environment.

What will you be doing?

As our Assistant Cost Manager you'll help support the Contract Commercial team, working on our United Utilities Water AMP8 contracts from our office in Preston. You'll be providing essential cost control support in a wide range of activities including resources, cost tracking, analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

Cost Management – proving and validating costs in relation to subcontractor, plant, materials, fuel, vehicles etc, including processing of transfers and re-allocation of costs to projects. Support continuous process improvement, offering feedback on cost management systems and workflows.

Timesheet Administration – process and review staff timesheets, record and manage labour hours and updating systems.

Reporting – cost coding and set up of new cost centres, review data consistency and support continuous process improvement.

What you'll bring

• Previous experience with cost management with strong analytical, numerical and data processing skills.
• A proactive approach with a commitment to delivering key outcomes.
• Great organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team and collaborate with others.
• An ability to identify efficiency improvements in cost management processes.
• Full driving licence, as there will be an element of travel involved with the role.

What's in it for you?

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care for you plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eye care and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Personal Accident Cover

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another: We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet; we're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations; we're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts; we're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life. Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Additional Information

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. #MGroupW #LI-LK1