Team Leader Costings Department

Costings Team Leader - Business Services
Based in Harlow
Hybrid working ( 3 days per week)
£30-32K per annum

Direct Reports: 3 Costings Administrators

Role Overview:

The optimal candidate will be able to analyse jobs completed by our engineering workforce and identify the correct contracted Schedule of Rate or mark-up rule to be applied for each customer. With an exceptional eye the for detail the right candidate will be ensuring accuracy and correct revenue billing on a job-by-job basis

As the Costings Team Leader, you will be the 'gate keeper' between the service desk, engineers and customers ensuring that all engineer reports and jobs are processed and costed correctly; this will require you to check and challenge other departments, therefore, a confident and friendly attitude is key to maintaining good relationships. You will also be working with Contract Managers and Senior Management to ensure excellent delivery of service and accurate costing.

This role also includes an element of processing and checking invoices received from subcontractors and suppliers where relevant to customer works so a careful and conscientious approach is necessary to ensure sub-contractors are paid correctly and customers are correctly charged.

Main Purpose

• Carry out job costing across all Contracts to the agreed contracted rates
• Invoice checking & approval
• Quality assurance for job costings carried out
• Carry out profitability analysis across all contracts to ensure efficiencies
• Identify opportunities to improve processes across business units to drive revenue, decrease costs and potential further works
• Identify and effectively communicate efficiency improvements within the costing process
• Prepare customer valuations within the contracted timescales;
• Develop and maintain key relationships with Finance, Contract Managers, Heads of Departments, Administration Teams, Engineers & Sub-Contractors; Customers and 3rd Party Suppliers.
• Managing a team of three individuals within the department
• Setting daily tasks, and carrying out daily audit checks of work carried out to minimise errors