FM Conway Ltd
Commercial Assistant - Rayleigh
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Help keep our Water and Drainage contracts commercially on track.
Love working with numbers, spotting trends and making sense of data? Join our Water and Drainage Management division and help support the commercial performance of our contracts.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Assistant to become part of our small, close-knit commercial team, supporting a varied portfolio of contracts across the business.
This is a great opportunity for someone with an analytical mindset who enjoys working with data, identifying trends and understanding the story behind the numbers. You may come from a finance, accountancy, data management or commercial background and be looking for a role where you can develop your skills and build a long-term career.
With plenty of variety, exposure across different contracts and real opportunities to learn and progress, no two days will be the same.
As one of our Commercial Assistants, you will be:
- Undertaking cost value analysis across reactive works and planned schemes
- Analysing commercial data, identifying trends and highlighting opportunities for cost savings
- Supporting risk, value management and cost control activities across our contracts
- Assisting with the change control process, including capturing, notifying and valuing variations and contractual claims
- Supporting procurement activity, including cost analysis and the procurement of subcontractors
- Valuing works using our management systems and supporting client invoicing and payment applications
- Assisting with subcontractor payments
- Monitoring WIP, debt and cashflow and supporting proactive cash collection
- Working across approximately 5-8 commercial contracts, giving you exposure to a varied workload and different areas of the business
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You'll ideally have:
- Naturally analytical, organised and comfortable working with data
- Keen eye for detail and the ability to look beyond the numbers to identify trends, patterns and potential issues
- Experience or a background in data management, finance, accountancy or a similar analytical role
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel
- Full UK driving licence
What’s in it for you?
As our Commercial Assistant, you’ll be joining a small and supportive team where you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop and take on more responsibility as your experience grows. We will also offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 23 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, internal and external training opportunities, and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform.
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You’ll also have access to a range of health and wellbeing benefits, including 24-hour advice lines and support from our mental health first aiders.
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life.
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At our heart we are a business that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
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We look forward to receiving your application!
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