Commercial Administrator

The Clancy Group; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent family-owned construction business in the UK is seeking experienced Administrators to provide efficient administration support. The role involves assisting the Commercial Team with cost control, managing data effectively, and ensuring compliance with various standards. Ideal candidates should have experience in a complex team environment, demonstrate commercial awareness, and be highly organized with proficiency in digital tools. The position offers competitive salary and benefits including a generous holiday allowance and employee discounts.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension benefits

Healthcare coverage

Holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days

Employee benefits programme with retailer discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Responsibilities

• Assist the Commercial Team with a range of commercial administration services.
• Use management information systems to capture and report accurate data.
• Process weekly and monthly cost value reconciliations.
• Ensure information is accurate and up to date.
• Identify and elevate inappropriate costs.
• Capture and report direct labour payments.
• Deal with queries and problems appropriately.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality, and environmental standards.

Skills

Experience working in a complex team environment

Demonstrable experience of working in regulated administrative environment

Commercial awareness

Understanding of administrative processes

Understanding and application of digital technology

Highly organised

Adaptable to change

Intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Teams, Outlook

Proactive in identifying and escalating issues

Job description

We are easy to do business with
If you like making things easy for others, then we’ll have a lot in common …

Our Energy South SSE team is growing, and we are looking for experienced Administrators to provide an efficient, accurate and effective administration support.

Here are some of the tasks you will be involved in...

• Assist the Commercial Team with a range of commercial and efficient administration service to help control and allocates costs
• Use management information systems to effectively capture and report accurate data ensuring timelines are met
• Process and produce transparent weekly and monthly cost value reconciliation process to ensure that accurate and timely information
• Capture and allocate all relevant costs and liabilities
• Undertake business activities to ensure that information is accurate and to up to date and ensure the most cost effective use of company resources
• Identify and elevate inappropriate costs and continuously monitor which should be transferred between business streams and contract cost centres where necessary
• Capture and report direct labour payments
• Deal with situations ensuring queries and problems are resolved and escalated appropriately
• Compliance with Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental policies, procedures and standards
• Provide clear and unambiguous commercial information;

We'd love to hear from you if you can demonstrate...

• Experience working in a complex team environment
• Demonstrable experience of working in regulated administrative environment
• Commercial awareness
• Understanding of administrative process in relation to team activities
• Understanding and application of digital technology
• Highly organised
• Adaptable to change and able to comfortably deal with conflicting demands
• Comfortable with technology and at least an intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Teams, Outlook etc
• Be proactive in identifying and promptly escalating issues as necessary
• Be accountable and take personal responsibility for resolving problems
• Constructively challenge;

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.