Commercial Support Assistant

About JN Bentley
JN Bentley - part of the global engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald - is a leading civil engineering and construction company, delivering design-and-build projects with clients in the water sector and beyond, across the UK.

We directly employ over 1,300 people across 9 office locations and hundreds of construction sites nationwide. We have a turnover in excess of £300 million, delivered by our water utilities design and build business Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB), our environmental design and build business Jeremy Benn Associates-Bentley (JBA-B) and directly by JN Bentley.

As we move into an exciting and challenging period for the Water industry, it is essential our commercial and cost management processes and practices remain industry- leading to ensure we not only deliver, but outperform against our objectives and customer expectations.

As our new Commercial Support Assistant, working on our framework with the Anglian Water @one Alliance, you’ll act as the liaison between Mott Macdonald Bentley and the @one alliance.

Key responsibilities:

• Cost management - reporting, recovery, analysis & forecasting - Applications For Payments from Client - Internal Cost Reporting - Commercial Valuations - Internal & External Forecasting - Cost To Complete
• Final Accounts - Agreeing Project Final Accounts between MMB & Anglian Water
• Specialist Projects - Managing orders, invoicing and payments between MM and @One
• System Maintenance and Administration - MMB system (Xpedeon) and AW requirement
• Adhoc projects as required

Candidate specification:

• Motivated and proactive
• Reliable
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders at all levels across MMB & @One Alliance and to build and maintain relationships
• Computer literate
• High level of numeracy
• Can work to tight deadlines
• Calm under pressure