ENGIE
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Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Cost and Commercials Officer
Overview
Job Description
ENGIE is a leading energy and services company focused on three key activities: production and supply of energy, services and regeneration. Our 17,000 employees combine these capabilities for the benefit of individuals, businesses and communities throughout the UK & Ireland. We enable customers to embrace a lower carbon, more efficient and increasingly digital world. Our customers benefit from our energy efficient and smart building solutions, the provision of effective and innovative services, the transformation of neighbourhoods through regeneration projects, and the supply of reliable, flexible and renewable energy. ENGIE improves lives through better living and working environments. We help to balance performance with responsibility, enabling progress in a harmonious way. Globally, the ENGIE Group employs 160,000 people worldwide and achieved revenues of 60.6 billion in 2018. ENGIE are recruiting for a Cost and Commercials Officer to be based in Grimbsy. This is a permanent full-time role working Monday to Friday. On offer is a competitive salary, and benefits package. ENGIE is North East Lincolnshire Council's long-term Regeneration Partner delivering a wide range of services including planning, building control, housing, highways & transport, asset & facilities management and operational services. This role is to support the delivery of the financial cost and commercial information for the partnership through the provision of a range of tasks including: Main Responsibilities/Duties Include: * With a working knowledge of double-entry bookkeeping, use of electronic systems to maintain the record of revenue expenditure across numerous streams * Ensure cost information is processed in accordance with NELC and ENGIE procedures and in order to provide information for statutory returns * Monitoring and reporting on NELC spend against allocated managed budgets within financial deadlines, forecasting future spend within the financial year * Production of budget monitoring reports and other cost information for all services within ENGIE NEL * Under the direction of the Cost and Commercials Manager; maintain processes to ensure integrity of cost data between different systems, i.e. Oracle & Technology Forge * Investigates enquiries and queries from suppliers and staff/customers and provides assistance and advice as required to customers regarding charges/payments * Deliver excellence in customer service * Work with the central management finance and commercial function to ensure that internal projects are offering best value for money for both ENGIE and NELC * Be responsible for collating forecast information from service managers and challenge spend that is outside profile * Ensure contract change procedures are adhered to within the business * Respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests within given timetables and to agreed regulation * Raising of all contract revenue within allocated timeframes, including credit control of the revenue within our agreed credit terms * Undertake such other duties as may be reasonably expected at this level. Impact: * The role handles significant revenue cost information on behalf of ENGIE and its Clients. * The role deals with large quantities of data and inaccuracy in recording will have an impact on financial reporting for its principle contractor (NELC) *