# Cost Management Associate

**Company**: Fuse Energy
**Location**: London, England
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Fuse Energy is an energy startup on a mission to make energy abundant and affordable, fast.

As a Cost Management Associate, you'll sit inside the team that owns cost control across the business, from supplier invoices to settlement charges to contract terms.

Responsibilities:

- Own cost lines with a direct, visible line to the P&L: what you catch or miss shows up in reported margin

- Reconcile invoices against contracts and purchase terms across suppliers, catching discrepancies before they become write-offs

- Build and maintain trackers that give real-time visibility into cost drivers, so issues surface in days, not at quarter close

- Validate settlement and regulatory charges (energy market invoices, third-party fees) against internal accruals and flag variances

- Dig into specific cost lines, contracts or vendor relationships to find savings, then build the analysis to make the case

- Support negotiations with suppliers and partners by preparing the cost and usage data behind the ask

- Automate the manual, repetitive parts of cost tracking and reconciliation so the team's time goes toward judgement calls

Requirements:

- Very strong first-principles thinking: you want to understand why a cost exists before you try to reduce it

- Comfortable in a fast, ambiguous, high-intensity environment

- Analytical, structured and proactive: someone who chases down discrepancies rather than waiting for them to be explained

- Strong Excel and financial modelling skills

- A genuine interest in cost control, procurement, or operational finance

- Bonus: Prior experience in banking, consulting, accounting, procurement or a startup finance team; exposure to contract or invoice reconciliation, vendor management or process automation; coding skills (Python, SQL or similar) for building cost-tracking tools

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and eligibility for equity

- Biannual bonus scheme

- Fully expensed tech to match your needs

- Private health insurance

- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office-based employees

## Skills

### Required
- first-principles thinking
- analytical skills
- Excel
- financial modelling
- cost control
- procurement
- operational finance

### Nice to have
- banking
- consulting
- accounting
- startup finance team
- contract or invoice reconciliation
- vendor management
- process automation
- coding skills (Python, SQL or similar)

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