Job Costings Administrator
Location: Harlow (Hybrid - 3 days office / 2 days home)
Salary: £27,580 + £500 Annual Bonus + Profit Share
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm (30-minute lunch)
The Opportunity
We’re supporting a well-established and growing business in the appointment of a Job Costings Administrator to join their Business Services team based in Harlow. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong administration, finance or job costing experience who enjoys working with numbers, analysing data and ensuring projects are accurately costed and invoiced. Working closely with Operational Teams, Finance, Contract Managers and Engineers, you’ll play a key role in ensuring work is costed correctly, customer valuations are prepared accurately and contracts remain commercially efficient and profitable. If you’re highly organised, have excellent attention to detail and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, this could be a fantastic next step.
The Role As Job Costings Administrator, you’ll be responsible for:
- Accurately costing completed works against agreed contract schedules and rates.
- Preparing and checking customer invoices and valuations.
- Carrying out profitability analysis across multiple contracts.
- Investigating valuation and invoicing queries with both internal teams and customers.
- Identifying opportunities to improve commercial performance and operational efficiencies.
- Supporting Contract Managers and Operational teams with financial reporting.
- Maintaining excellent working relationships with Finance, Engineers, Sub‑Contractors and customers.
- Ensuring all work meets internal quality standards and client KPI requirements.
About You We’re looking for someone who has:
- Previous administration, finance, costing or commercial support experience.
- Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Good Excel and Microsoft Office knowledge.
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to liaise with internal departments and customers.
- A proactive approach with the ability to identify improvements and solve problems.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities whilst working to deadlines.
Experience within construction, engineering, maintenance, facilities management or service-based businesses would be advantageous, although not essential.
Salary & Benefits
- £22k to £27,500
- £500 annual bonus.
- Annual Profit Share Scheme (typically around 1.5% of salary).
- Hybrid working (3 days in the office / 2 days from home).
Eligo Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Eligo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive and equitable environment for employees and applicants. We actively celebrate and embrace differences, including but not limited to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and disability. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and all will be considered for employment without discrimination. At Eligo Recruitment diversity, equity and inclusion is integral to achieving our mission to ensure every workplace reflects the richness of human diversity.
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