Technical & Performance Officer - Environment

We are proud of Central Bedfordshire. It is a 'great place to live and work'. The Authority is ambitious and committed to ensuring that environmental, sustainability and climate resilience issues are at the heart of decision making. The Authority has experienced a lot of change and like all other local authorities faces the challenge of diminishing budgets alongside increasing demand and customer expectation. Furthermore, Environmental Services will need to adapt to comply with emerging national legislative and regulatory requirements that will result in the largest changes in the sector in recent times. It is a period for reviewing what we do, why we do it and how we do it. It is a time for change which presents challenges and exciting opportunities. We are seeking to appoint a Technical & Performance Officer within Environmental Services (ES). Environmental Services deliver a range of high-profile services to residents and stakeholders primarily through high value/profile contracts. Services include Waste/Recycling Collection, Street Cleansing, HWRC's, Waste Management and Disposal, Grounds Maintenance, Dog/Pest control, flytipping review/clearance and closed landfill sites. The successful candidate will be working within the small and friendly Performance and Finance Team. The team is responsible for understanding the performance and payment mechanisms and pricing schedules within numerous ES contracts. Ensuring that invoicing, tonnage and performance data is in accordance with the contract requirements and that it is accurate, timely and transparent and forms robust evidence for service decisions. The Technical & Performance Officer is an important role, the postholder must have a sound knowledge of ES' contracts to ensure invoices can be checked for accuracy and large volumes of data received from various sources (such as CBC's contractors) can be validated including: weighbridge tonnage information for all waste streams, contract performance data, waste receptacle stock/delivery data, fly tipping data and annual housing growth data. Key duties include:

• Provide efficient, accurate data analysis, performance and finance support across the service.
• Provide audits of contractor weekly/monthly tonnages for all waste streams/core works and services.
• Raise invoices and purchase orders as required.
• Assist with preparation of service performance data and support completion of internal and external data returns.
• Provide financial support for monthly forecasting and to meet the corporate finance team requirements.
• Monitor and chase debts and income.
• Support line manager in all activities relating to their role.
  
  The candidate must have highly developed analytical skills including the ability to accurately process and manipulate high volumes of data using excel and has experience of managing performance and expenditure data in accordance with high value contract requirements. Any potential candidate identified is able to work productively in a high profile, large budget, demand led service area that is, at times, extremely busy. Furthermore, knowledge of contract payment mechanisms, performance mechanisms and pricing schedules and an understanding of CBC's statutory reporting or experience of working in similar, highly regulated service area would be an advantage.