Cost Management Analyst

Overview

In this role you drive real savings that directly affect Fuse Energy’s margin. You will own cost lines and ensure invoices, contracts, and settlements align with the P&L, surfacing issues early to protect value. You’ll build real-time cost trackers, quantify savings opportunities, and support supplier negotiations with solid cost and usage data. This is a hands-on, high-impact role in a fast-growing energy company that values first-principles thinking and practical problem solving.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive internship salary
• Fully expensed tech to match your needs
• Breakfast and dinner allowance for office based employees
• Opportunities for fast progression
• Front-row seat at a fast-growing energy company with high autonomy

Responsibilities

• Own cost lines with direct P&L visibility and ensure accurate margin reporting
• Reconcile invoices against contracts and purchase terms, catching discrepancies before write-offs
• Build and maintain real-time cost trackers to surface issues quickly
• Validate settlement and regulatory charges against internal accruals and flag variances
• Investigate cost lines, contracts, or vendors to identify savings opportunities and build supporting analysis
• Support supplier and partner negotiations with cost and usage data to justify asks
• Automate repetitive cost-tracking and reconciliation tasks to free up analytical judgment

Key requirements

• Final-year student or recent graduate in engineering, maths, or another STEM discipline
• Very strong first-principles thinking: understand why a cost exists before reducing it
• Comfortable in fast, ambiguous, high-intensity environment
• Analytical, structured and proactive: chase down discrepancies
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills
• Genuine interest in cost control, procurement, or operational finance

• Analytical mindset
• Proactive problem solving
• Discrepancy chasing
• Excel
• Financial modelling
• Data analysis

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