Commercial Graduate

Chorley

Commercial Graduate

Ipsum Group LTD

The Company

Our vision is to be widely recognised as the UK’s customer service leader in specialist utility and infrastructure services. Providing great customer service is at the heart of what we do, and our commitment is to deliver this safely and innovatively through our highly skilled teams – we call this the Ipsum Way.

We’re always looking for people who are passionate about delivering outstanding customer service and who take pride in delivering essential services 24/7/365 that really make a difference to local people and communities.

We are committed to supporting and developing our people to achieve their full potential. If you join us, as well as learning on the job, we offer structured learning in the form of apprenticeship programmes and sponsoring relevant professional qualifications. If your qualification gives you membership of an accredited professional body then we will reimburse your annual membership fee. Investing in our people and enhancing our expertise and flexibility enables us to deliver the highest standard of service to our customers.

We really value our people and so we like to look after them. In addition to an attractive salary, if you work for us, you’ll enjoy a range of employee benefits which you can explore more about by visiting our website www.ipsum.co.uk

The Role

As a Commercial Graduate you will gain a breadth of experience within the commercial function, enabling you to develop the commercial acumen, experience and knowledge required to provide effective commercial support to our diverse business. You will be joining our Water & Infrastructure business, supporting the Commercial Manager and Commercial Assistant with the day-to-day administration of the commercial activities within the business area/projects you support, and getting involved in a wide range of commercial activities.

Principle Accountabilities:

Payment Process

You’ll take on the responsibility of the payment process ensuring accurate input on a daily basis and maintaining a strong monthly cashflow.

· Inputting billing into the client systems

· Chasing the approvals of payment once processed

· Ensuring our finance team are raising invoices correctly.

· Reconciling against monthly remittances

Ensuring data is correctly inputted

WIP Management

You’ll take ownership of managing the WIP process and ensuring all possible work is billed

· Holding review meetings with planners and project managers to assess the WIP

· Providing reports of the outstanding WIP and the reasons for this

· Help resolve any queries in relation to outstanding WIP

Subcontractor Onboarding

You’ll ensure that all subcontractors go through the onboarding process and our internal job systems are up to date

· Issuing PQQ questionnaires to subcontractors

· Facilitating returned PQQs to the relevant departments to enable internal checks to be done

· Ensuring the subcontractors are set up on our internal systems

Ad hoc Requirements

You’ll be a point of contact for the Commercial Manager and Commercial Assistant for any assistance with day-to-day tasks.

· Running of monthly/weekly reports

· Assisting with analysis

· Maintaining our databases

· Supporting operations and finance with purchase orders

The Person

· 2:1 bachelor's degree or equivalent

· Full UK driving licence (beneficial)

· Previous experience within an administrative/financial/commercial role would be beneficial but not essential

· Flexibility to travel within the UK

· IT literate and proficient in Microsoft Office

· A good standard of verbal and numerical reasoning

· Strong relationship-building skills

· Ability to work to strict deadlines

· Planning, prioritisation and time-management skills

· Strong attention to detail and level of accuracy

· Ability to analyse and interpret data

· Passionate to work in a customer-focused environment

· Values - A commitment to drive outstanding Health, Safety and Environmental performance

· Accountability - Takes personal responsibility for outcomes and does what they say they will do

· Character – Keeps a level head in challenging times and displays drive and commitment

· Trustworthy – Communicates well and does the right thing

· Humility – Puts the company’s needs ahead of own and is highly collaborative

· Self-Awareness – Aware of own strengths and weaknesses, accepts feedback, and can flex their style when needed

Ipsum is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.