Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing
Your role will be to actively contribute to the co-ordination of project delivery, supporting contractor activities and will enable continuous service delivery to our customers. This will entail setting up and monitoring costs and income, quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting for Developer Services capital projects. Ensuring all governance requirements are met, scheme budgets are released in SAP on a timely basis, once the pre-requisites are met, and the application of our charges to customers is consistent with regulatory and statutory obligations, and to ensure that project commissioning and settlement are performed routinely on SAP.
You will work across teams to improve the quality of data in SAP including standardisation of approach, accuracy of categorisation of work and completeness of updates on jobs.
We’re looking for you to:
- Analytical and inquisitive mind-set and be highly numerate.
- Learn and apply regulatory and statutory rules and perform effectively in complex and difficult environments.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships within the business.
- Managing budgets and costs preferably capex in a regulated environment is essential.
What’s in it for you?
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.