At a Glance
- Tasks: Analyse cost data and support project teams to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Company: Join Anglian Water, a leader in sustainable water services.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible leave, and great family-friendly policies.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on environmental projects while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: GCSEs in English and Maths; strong organisational and data handling skills.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
Location: Peterborough, Lincoln & Norwich
Contract: Full Time/Permanent
Salary: dependent on experience and skills
At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.
Who are we? Here within Anglian Water, we collaborate with a number of alliance partners to provide the best water and water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies. Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop is our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. Comprising of Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale and Kier, the IOS Alliance work together to concentrate on solutions across the water recycling and clean water asset base. The IOS alliance works across multiple disciplines including Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation. Incorporating new construction, replacement or repair. Spanning the entirety of Anglian Waters asset base.
To ensure water and water recycling projects are managed successfully from inception to completion, ensuring all required standards, regulations, commercial affordability targets and time frames are met, we are looking for a Cost Analyst to join the team who will be prepared to travel within the East Anglia area.
What you will be doing as our Cost Analyst:
The Cost Analyst is required to facilitate the efficient and effective analysis of cost and asset data in order to provide Cost Capture information for all Capitalised projects delivered by Integrated Operations Solutions (IOS). This information collected and processed is essential to Anglian Water for future Capital cost modelling and business planning for future AMP Business plans. The data therefore must be accurate, reliable and trusted.
Responsibilities:
- Manage all Cost Capture data in a timely and accurate manner for variously complex Capital schemes
- Coach and liaise with the Delivery and Commercial Teams to support the Cost Capture process, ensuring the timely and accurate capture of information
- Be the expert user of corporate data systems such as Asset+
- Analyse, report, and action data entry performance on corporate systems.
- Produce standard periodic performance reports
- Adhere to governance, processes, and procedures
Key Experiences/Skills & qualifications:
- GCSE level - minimum English & Maths
- Strong organisational and administration abilities
- Computer Literate in Microsoft Office Applications
- Experience of Anglian Water IT systems particularly Asset+, M2i and SAP (desirable)
- Excellent data handling skills, use of corporate Web database system and spreadsheets
- Ability to understand and interpret financial and accounting data
- Coaching and providing guidance.
- Ability to explain the granular requirements of Cost Capture (desirable)
- Able to build good working relationships with stakeholders and data providers
- Excellent data handling and evaluations skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:
- Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity/partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
- Personal private health care
- Annual bonus scheme
- Up to 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
- Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
- Life Cover at 8x your salary
- Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.
Closing Date: 21st September 2026
Cost Analyst in Norwich employer: Anglian Water Services
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