Group Metropolitan
Commercial Assistant
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About Us
Group Metropolitan was founded in 1985 as an electrical contractor carrying out small moves and changes projects for a select few clients. Over the past 35 years, we have grown into a turnkey Principal Contractor offering in-house tradespeople, with a projected turnover of £85m. This has been achieved by working collaboratively with our clients to understand their needs and become an extension of their business, expanding our service offerings and geography to meet the expectations required. Whilst the business has seen organic growth over the years, our core values of Safety, Quality, Integrity and People, remain the same.
The Role
We require a motivated individual to join our growing mechanical team. The role will be mainly based in our Cannon Workshop office near Canary Wharf with the ad hoc requirement to visit sites when the need arises. The successful candidate will report to our mechanical department commercial manager and work closely day to day with the mechanical operational delivery teams.
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Key Responsibilities
- Assisting with raising applications to clients
- Full reconciliation of revenue & margins
- Project profitability analysis and reporting
- Support administrator in raising PO’s, reviewing, approving, and tracking associated invoices within cost trackers.
- Maintain and update cost trackers within the Mechanical department and present these to the management team when asked
- Cash flow forecast preparation
- Invoicing clients (applications)
- Data entry in various forms
- Completing intercompany revenue transfers
- Analysis of quarterly revenue trackers
- General support to the Mechanical and BMS Division – Assisting with Administrators overflow of work at times. This will include raising new jobs along with various updating of our system when required
Requirements
- Highly numerate with excellent Excel experience
- Proficient in MS Office & Word
- Understanding of different VAT charges/deductions at invoicing stages
- Ability to learn in-house portal such as Netsuite, Procore & client invoicing portals (training will be provided)
- Knowledge & understanding of profit margins with the skill set to deep drive any discrepancies of forecasted and actual margins as jobs progress
- Ability to manage their own workload and offer wider support to the rest of the team when required
- Desire to understand principles of the mechanical department offering to enable informed conversations during commercial conversations
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Benefits
- Following 12 months of continuous employment, you are entitled to become a beneficiary of the Employee-Owned Trust (EOT) scheme.
- Private Healthcare for you and your dependents.
- Private Dental Insurance.
- Life Insurance.
- 24 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
- Pension Scheme.
- Length of Service reward scheme.
- Tradepoint discount scheme.
- Family-friendly benefits.
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