Commercial Assistant

Commercial Assistant

Salary: £29,076 - £30,606

Location: Waterfront House, Beeston

Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover) until April 2027

About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that 'everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well'; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living

This role

We are recruiting for a Commercial Assistant, to support the Quantity Surveyors with reviewing all applications for payments, valuations and costs associated with the repairs, voids and disrepair works for Metworks.

You will also be expected to provide cost reports to the relevant teams and attend relevant operational or contractor meetings and assist in the development of new ways of delivering the commercial approach to future contract performance and spend to support the contract partnership.

What you'll need to succeed

•Track record in providing Commercial or financial Support in including invoice payments and query management

•Able to manage own workload and gather information from various sources to meet a deadline

•An understanding of NHF and other bespoke schedule of rate based contracts is desirable.

•Good planning, budgeting, organizing and prioritization skills. Experience of keeping sound business records.

•Ability to prepare reports, track and manage contractor accounts and queries, maintain records and monitor budget expenditure.

•Able to build and sustain working relationships with key stakeholders both internal and external

•Able to interpret financial and other systems data.

•Good working knowledge of Excel

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it's the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Metropolitan Thames Valley provides affordable housing for people living in London, the South East, East Midlands and East of England.

We also offer a range of care and support services. Our specialist areas include older people, mental health and transitional services which provide intensive support to marginalised or vulnerable people.

We deliver training programmes, events and activities for our residents, designed to boost employment opportunities and foster stronger communities.

A member of the National Housing Federation the G15 ? which represents London?s largest housing associations ? we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.

In October 2018 like minded housing associations Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing formally completed a partnership to form Metropolitan Thames Valley. We came together because we want to improve the services we provide and do more in our communities. We?ll do this by listening to our customers and working alongside them.

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