Job Description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Cost Administrator to join our Regional Projects Wales team to work from our Treforest Depot on a 12 Months Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

Working, 60% of the time on site with the flexibility of working up to 40% from home.

The team provide financial, administrative and clerical support to the organisation. We contribute to ensuring our supply chain are paid to terms through processing, verifying and reconciling invoices received into the company.

What you\'ll be doing

As a Cost Administrator, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Support members of the commercial team in the undertaking of commercial and administrative duties such as timesheet administration, record management and other ad hoc commercial administration tasks
• Support the cost team with duties such as raising invoices and processing cost transfer requests
• Solve queries on mismatched invoices and orders in conjunction with procurement and business teams
• Deal with email queries from internal stakeholders and external suppliers
• Communicate with stakeholders and the team to resolve queries efficiently
• Engage positively with team meetings, huddles and wider business forums
• Support team members with workload during times of absence or high activity, to ensure business needs are met
• Maintain good knowledge of ERP and other systems

Who we\'re looking for

You will have the following:

Essential:

• Highly motivated, proactive and practical
• Honest, reliable and professional
• Meticulous and accurate with impeccable attention to d
• A confident communicator with a good telephone manner and able to build relationships with suppliers and stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate a strong customer focus and a passion for quality service delivery
• Ability to work well within a team
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook

Desirable:

• T Level 2 or 3
• Experience of working within the Oracle ERP System

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

About us

Our Rail business has an extensive legacy of rail expertise. Our teams safely deliver complex projects, from consultancy and design to all aspects of construction and maintenance. Using advanced plant and machinery, and unique innovations, we provide end-to-end solutions for our customers.

Our aim is to improve the passengers experience, and our teams create better journeys by increasing network capacity, improving reliability, and making our railways more efficient and sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence \'Employer Recognition Scheme\' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:

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