Requisition Budget Coordinator

This role will be based in our Clearwater Court, Reading with the option of hybrid or remote working.

You will be responsible for overseeing and ensuring all the key administration steps of our Digital renewals / procurements processes, including raising requests, tracking, receipting, and capturing costs for the preparation of accurate and timely financial information to support and enable the analysis and reporting of Thames Digital’s operational financial position.

The role requires developing and managing the relationships between many teams (internal and external) and ensuring stakeholders, third parties, and governance areas are fully informed and engaged in the hand-offs and tracking of renewals and new commercial requests.

What you’ll be doing as a Requisition Budget Coordinator

• Track and monitor service / software and support renewals across Thames Digital and ensuring these are started, progressed, and completed within agreed timescales.
• Where needed assist Commercial in engaging business owners, vendors, cost centre managers to establishing requirements and budget provision
• Timely and accurately capture and input of all information (into SAP) relating to renewals and new requests as part of the shopping cart process to create and issue Purchase Orders.

• Record and save all renewal and request information to agreed audit repository standards.
• Proactively help resolve issues with vendors regarding payments, Purchase Orders, company name changes etc.
• Work with internal teams, cost centre owners and stakeholders to pro-actively and efficiently receipt costs with correct approvals.
• Monitor operational financial progress on a monthly basis as well as helping create and define financial reports.
• Supporting the Finance Lead in ensuring a high level of financial control is in place.

What you should bring to the role

• Previous or similar experience with administration activities with procurement, purchasing, supplier, or requester activities.
• Experience of managing multiple tasks to completion whilst ensure a high level of data accuracy to audit and financial standards.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with financial reporting & budgeting.
• Experience with working on multiple processes with conflicting priorities
• Month-end reporting including forecasting & variance analysis

What’s in it for you?
Hourly Pay rate: £140 per day
Expenses: Included
Location: Hybrid – Clear Water Court Reading
Length of assignment: 6 months with an option to go permanent
Required Start date: As soon as possible
Hours: 36

We are recruiting for TWO positions

Please note you will be on assignment at Thames Water via Pertemps

Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.
 
Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.
 
But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process
Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.