Cost Analyst

Role overview

Location and working arrangement

• The role offers hybrid working from home and an Anglian Water office in Peterborough or Lincoln.
• The listed office locations are Thorpewood House in Peterborough and Enterprise House in Lincoln.

Responsibilities

• Support budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, financial planning, and reporting for projects and programmes.
• Ensure supplier payments and Purchase-to-Pay processes are accurate, compliant, and aligned with contractual agreements.
• Provide insight into costs, risks, and opportunities, and challenge pricing, variations, and ad-hoc services for value for money.
• Monitor contractor, project, and supplier performance against agreed KPIs, programme, cost, and service expectations.
• Contribute to KPI reporting, audits, stakeholder engagement, commercial assurance, and review meetings.
• Maintain accurate asset, cost, and audit records, and support health, safety, and statutory compliance.

Requirements

• Experience in a similar commercial or contract-management role.
• High degree of numeracy and financial acumen; knowledge of sourcing and procurement processes.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel.
• Desirable: knowledge of contract management, including SLAs, pricing schedules and rate cards, risk/reward mechanisms, and negotiations; NEC contracts.
• Desirable: degree such as Quantity Surveying or Finance; working toward membership of RICS, CIOB, or ICE.
• Desirable: financial-process, Purchase-to-Pay, SAP, stakeholder-engagement, and health and safety knowledge; project-level cost-management experience.

Benefits

• Personal private health care, 25 days annual leave rising with service, flexible working, and a pension scheme with employer double-matching contributions up to 6%.
• Bonus scheme and flexible benefits supporting wellbeing and lifestyle.

Compensation

• Starting salary from £34,500, dependent on skills and experience.

Employment and schedule

• Permanent, full-time role with flexibility for part-time working.