Cape Town: Senior Utilities Analyst posted by Ability Executive Recruitment

• Analyse utility consumption, costs, and billing to ensure accurate allocation to tenants.
  
• Validate municipal and tenant invoices and ensure recoveries align with company billing methodologies.
  
• Prepare comprehensive reports and dashboards to monitor utility performance, anomalies, and costsaving opportunities.
  
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cost management for utilities across the property portfolio.
  
• Collaborate with internal teams, tenants, municipalities, and service providers to resolve utility-related queries.
  
• Maintain accurate and organized utility records, including databases and filing systems.
  
• Identify and implement process improvements, technology solutions, and energy efficiency initiatives.
  
• Stay updated on South African municipal bylaws, tariffs, Eskom electricity structures, and sustainability regulations.

Billing checks and recovery ratios (Invoice management)

• Capturing and verifying of council/municipal bills
  
• Verifying billing details and supply meter reading data
  
• Ensuring accurate and timely processing of billing data
  
• Reviewing recovery ratios
  
• Populating of various report per building

Data Analysis

• Collect, validate, and analyse utility data from tenants, municipalities, and service providers.
  
• Identify anomalies in consumption and billing, trends, or inefficiencies.
  
• Provide actionable recommendations to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.
  
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and reporting metrics to track portfolio-wide performance
  

Utilities query resolutions

• Investigate and resolve tenant, municipal, or service provider utility queries.
  
• Liaise with property management, finance, and technical teams to ensure timely resolution.
  
• Maintain records of all queries, resolutions, and follow-up actions.
  
• Escalate complex or unresolved issues to the Head of Utilities for action.
  
• Support to the Head of Utilities
  
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations for strategic decision-making.
  
• Prepare reports for management meetings and presentations.
  
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of portfolio-wide utility costs.
  
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, cost savings, and sustainability initiatives.
  

Filing/Database Management

• Maintain organized utility records, including invoices, meter readings, contracts, and correspondence.
  
• Ensure databases are accurate, up-to-date, and easily accessible for reporting and audits.
  
• Monitor data quality and take corrective action where discrepancies are identified.

Requirements

• Matric / Grade 12
  
• BCom Degree or Diploma in Chemical or Electrical engineering
  
• 5+ years relevant experience in utilities management within the energy services or
  
• property management sector.
  
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
  
• Utility management software and smart metering systems.
  
• Electricity, water, and waste management principles in multi-tenanted properties.
  
• Renewable energy systems (solar PV, battery storage) and energy efficiency
  
• concepts.
  
• Financial literacy: utility billing, budgets, cost recovery strategies, Eskom tariffs, and
  
• municipal rates.
  
• Data analytics: ability to interpret complex utility data and produce actionable
  
• insights.
  
• South African municipal regulations, tariffs, and compliance requirements.