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Colas Rail
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Birmingham, West Midlands
Cost Clerk
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Job Description
The finance and commercial team provide the commercial and finance functions to support Alliance. This includes finance, commercial, contract/legal matters and budget control and reporting. The Cost clerk will provide cost administration activities to support projects and the commercial team within the Alliance. We are looking to develop individuals for our longer term project stream, essentially to support our quantity surveying function and would welcome applicants with an interest in this area and/or are looking for their first career challenge in this sector. We are encouraging experienced finance/commercial persons, and/or school leavers/graduates to apply as full training and development will be provided with the role. This will involve working at our Birmingham City Centre Office. MAIN DUTIES OF THE POST Accountabilities (Deliverables): * Cost control function processing Goods Received Notes (GRNS) * Ensure cost returns are completed for labour, plant and materials * Recording of labour / plant / material and subcontract costs * Maintaining site cost records, GRN's, plant tickets etc * Analysing / resolving invoice/ payment queries Responsibilities (Duties): * Cost control and administration * Maintenance of the Contract Database * Responsible for collating and recording time sheets from Midland Metro Alliance Organisations. * Input into Alliance Earned Value Management System INTERDEPENDENCIES: * Interface with project and engineering teams * Interface with finance and procurement teams MMA VALUES AND CULTURE * Respect The ability to respond politely and positively to a variety of situations and people in order to meet changing priorities in the role. Arrive at meetings to start at the start time and provide meeting agendas and adhere to agenda timings, wherever possible speak to colleagues face to face. * Safe & Sustainable The underlying drive to ensure that we all support our Safety and Sustainability policies within the working environment, this includes contributing to the Alliance objectives for a safe and sustainable metro providing a lasting positive impact on the environment and communities. * Openness The willingness and ability to work co-operatively and supportively with colleagues, developing positive, open working relationships in order to solve problems and to help achieve business goals. * Trust having confidence that colleagues will support the Alliance Principles and act with integrity and professionalism in sometimes challenging circumstances. Show a commitment to delivering on actions (i.e. do what you say you will do) and trusting others to do the same. * Challenging The confidence to challenge decisions to ensure that the Best for Alliance is achieved. Accept challenge of ideas in the interest of achieving the best outcome. * Honesty The ability to demonstrate open, honest and ethical behaviour in all dealings with stakeholders, colleagues, suppliers, partners and the public. It is about being open and honest and acting consistently with the Alliance Values at all times PERSON SPECIFICATION Qualifications * Finance and/or construction commercial management, advantageous but not essential as full training will be provided. Knowledge/Experience - Working in a finance or commercial function preferably within the engineering or construction sector * Knowledge of finance systems * Cost and budget administration * Good working knowledge of Microsoft excel Colas Rail in the United Kingdom values and encourages diversity in our workforce, regardless of background, disability or gender. As part of our aim to deliver quality services, we are committed to promoting equality and eliminating discrimination. Recruitment agencies Colas Rail currently works with a number of approved recruitment suppliers. We will therefore not consider CVs or speculative proposals from any other agencies. Recruitment agencies not currently approved as preferred suppliers are kindly requested not to submit speculative CVs to any part of Colas Rail.