Cost Analyst

To support the Finance Business Partner team to achieve or improve upon the directorate level operational cost budgets. This role will sit in either the Water or Waste Finance Business Partner teams and will deal with often large, complex data sets which will need to be manipulated and analysed. Recommendations for costs improvements / efficiencies will be presented to the Senior Finance Business Partner via clear, action driving reporting within the directed time-frames.

• Large data-set handling, manipulation and analysis.
• Understanding of and recommendations to improve underlying processes and systems that drive data sets via inputs from the finance systems team.
• Summarising and reporting on cost saving / efficiency opportunities.
• The ability to understand multiple systems and their interactions will be high advantageous.
• Other ad hoc duties, Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24 / 7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support - because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That's why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you'll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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• Degree educated (or equivalent) and / or demonstrable experience and / or working towards a professional accounting qualification.
• Proven ability to work with data and produce meaningful analysis.
• Confident user of MS Excel and related systems
• The ability to understand multiple systems and their interactions will be high advantageous.
• Some experience of working with Finance stakeholders, providing commercial insight and advice.
  
  This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a salary of up to £33,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including :
• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave (pro rata0
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year (pro rata)
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
Join our Finance team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment. Does this opportunity excite you but you're not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that 'normal' office hours aren't possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we'll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?