Assistant Quantity Surveyor/Analyst

Job Description

About the role

Are you a commercially minded analyst who enjoys turning data into clear insight and practical actions? We’re looking for an Assistant Quantity Surveyor/Analyst to support our Commercial team across projects helping ensure robust reporting, strong governance, improved cash performance, and contract compliance.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of project delivery, partnering with Commercial Managers and project teams to strengthen processes, improve efficiency, and support better decision making across the Power business.

The role:

As an Assistant Quantity Surveyor/Analyst, you’ll assist the Commercial Manager and wider commercial team with a wide range of commercial and reporting activities. You’ll help maintain compliance with company procedures and policies, support continuous improvement, and encourage smarter, more efficient ways of working.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting the Commercial team across projects with system information, reporting guidance and data insight
• Flagging potential issues and opportunities early, helping teams resolve them proactively
• Ordering information and systematically checking data using the Finance WBS
• Actively supporting mid-month and month-end processes
• Assisting projects with AFP creation and supporting opportunities to maximise incoming cash
• Reviewing financial data to support contract compliance and margin optimisation
• Undertaking mini-audits to identify and rectify issues ahead of client audits
• Supporting the appraisal of estimates and forecasts to ensure alignment with the contract
• Producing high-level reports for senior stakeholders across projects
• Assisting with project cashflow forecasting
• Analysing rates and prices, including support with variations and/or compensation events where required
• Supporting system development to ensure reporting tools provide the right information for analysis
• Preparing internal reporting, commercial progress updates and financial reconciliations
• Completing ad hoc tasks to support the wider commercial team with internal/client information

Who we’re looking for

Essential

• Previous experience in a Commercial and/or Data Analysis role
• Strong Excel capability and confidence working with large data sets
• Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage priorities
• Confidence producing clear reports and supporting project teams with accurate insight

Desirable

• Strong teamwork and a positive, proactive approach
• Commercial awareness and customer focus
• Ability to recognise opportunities and risks, and support solutions focused thinking
• Experience supporting forecasting, cost/value reporting, cashflow, or audit readiness in a project environment

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on going maintenance, our in house experts, flexible resources and industry leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at