MOUNTJOY SPECIALISES IN PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL AND HIGH-QUALITY CONSTRUCTION, REFURBISHMENT, BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES ACROSS THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND.

We are seeking an IT literate and conscientious Senior Costing Administrator who has experience of costing within the building maintenance industry using NHF and bespoke schedules of rates. In this role you will be responsible for costing jobs, ensuring they are costed correctly and highlighting areas where we can be more efficient and effective. You will also be required to approve supplier invoices ensuring these are accurate.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Have a clear and concise approach to verbal communication, able to use the phone to communicate effectively and have good typing skills.
• A good attention to detail ensuring all costs approved are accurate.
• Ability to multitask.
• Able to prioritise your workload.
• Have reasonable proficiency in MS Office and ability to use Mountjoy’s IT systems for job management and understanding how they function and interact with other systems.
• Understand what it is to be part of a team and ensure that learning is shared within the team.
• Be able to take directions from the Resource Controller / Contract Manager and be happy to respond to their instructions.
• Be flexible in your working hours to be able to support the delivery of the service; be reliable and dependable; identify issues and record them, along with other measures, as necessary.
• Be comfortable in dealing with the suppliers, workforce, tenants and clients, whilst be able to remain professional even when issues are contentious.

KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

• Knowledge of building maintenance and trades and the tasks/activities that can be undertaken be each trade group.
• Experienced using NHF National Schedule of Rates
• Basic accounting principles and their application (Desirable)

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

• GCSE or Equivalent in Qualification in Maths and English.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Experience of MS Office including Word and Excel with accurate typing skills
• Experience of working in a Repairs and Maintenance environment (Desirable).
• Basic knowledge of building maintenance trades and the tasks/activities that can be undertaken by each trade group.

• Cost jobs using Schedule of Rates, working to ensure we are optimizing our commercial returns.
• Highlight operational improvements that would enhance commercial performance to the contract manager.
• Review jobs that are making a loss with the Finance Business Partner to establish if improvements could be made.
• Collaborate with Operational Supervisors to prepare quotes for works that are over our authorised threshold for client approval.
• Review and approve/reject invoices received from suppliers, communicating any changes that are required.
• Ensure all information and invoices are on jobs before costing in order to capture all costs and liaise with the job owner if there are any clarifications required.
• Highlight any issues and trends in relation to task productivity where the expected time demonstrated for the trade and task has been exceeded.