About the position
My client is seeking a Metering and Billing Specialist to be responsible for end to end ownership of the AC/DC site power metering and billing on a national basis, while providing technical support to the finance and property departments in all technical aspects of power billing related matters, with a focus on ensuring accurate billing. This includes metering solution design requirements that will meet both the AC and DC billing requirements. The role requires focus on the various related site-specific operational and maintenance requirements to ensure the effective and accurate billing of the owned, managed and supported power infrastructure. This is a 12 month contract.
- Related qualification, such as a diploma or bachelor's degree, would be advantageous (preference for an electrical qualification)
- Minimum of 5 years of either electrical or power metering design and implementation of metering and billing solutions.
- Hands-on working experience on the design and maintenance of multi-tenant, combined metering systems.
Metering:
- Realise site-specific metering strategies for different customers based on the design support from the power solution architects.
- Support the operations and maintenance partners to ensure metering capabilities on site are never compromised and technically operational all of the time.
- Lead, plan and oversee the testing, installation and maintenance of AC and DC billing meters.
- Provide technical support on all metering and billing related matters.
- Design and lead technical metering solutions to ensure sound financial management in all billing and metering activities and support the management team with all related requirements.
- Identify world class leading technical metering solutions for both AC and DC requirements.
- Responsible for the development, coordination and implementation of weekly and daily work plans, schedules and reporting on a real-time basis for metering operations.
Thought Leader:
- Focus on supporting the power as a service Technical Operations team as well as the leadership team on designing unique and innovative solutions.
- Solve complex metering problems involving meter theory, vector analysis and meter communications.
- Take the lead in identifying, implementing and improving fit-for-purpose billing solutions.
Supplier /Contract Management:
- Develop structures to monitor, evaluate and manage supplier, contractors, and 3rd party’s performance against their contracted scope of work, and benchmark best practice.
- Technical support of the commercial, finance and property teams.
Financial Management Reporting:
- Support the commercial, finance and property teams to ensure that accurate financial management can be applied both internally and externally, with a site-specific profit and loss view on power usage.
- Develop dashboards to enable management visibility on power usage and recovery, ensuring the full recovery on actual costs incurred and recovered.
- Design proactive reporting to identify technical solutions to drive better financial management.
Desired Skills:
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Spreadsheet software
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Active Listening
- Tax preparation software
- Accounting Software
