Job Description

Key Competencies and Underpinning Knowledge:

• Experience on significant Infrastructure projects ideally but not limited to the Rail Sector
• Good working knowledge of financial systems.
• Understand the inter-relationship between time cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• Working knowledge of Primavera.
• Experience and knowledge of cost systems, such as SAP, Oracle CostOS and PRISM.
• Familiarity of the public sector policies, processes and procedures and associated political impacts. Commercial and quantity surveying skills, with full working knowledge of the construction industry, in particular NEC Form of Contracts and their commercial basis.
• Ability to develop and understand performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management and similar techniques.
• Commercial and quantity surveying skills, with full working knowledge of the construction industry, NEC Form of Contracts and their commercial basis.
• Ability to develop and understand performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management (EVM) and similar techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a small team of Cost Managers within project delivery team, coordinating and aggregating the outputs and feeding into overall Programme.
• Maintain responsibility for the accuracy of cost data, including transposition into Cost systems and business reporting.
• Assure all Cost data that feeds into Cost reporting within the area, as well as all Cost data that feeds into Programme reporting.
• Act as main point of contact for all Cost reporting and Cost intelligence, working closely with the Head of Cost Management to maintain Cost Systems ensuring accurate reporting, benchmarking and analysis of Clients infrastructure costs.
• Provide expert professional advice covering Clients infrastructure Costs to our client and wider business stakeholders (including, but not limited to, Procurement specialists, Cost / Contract Management personnel, Estimators and Project Controllers).
• Ensure continuous development and improvement of Clients policies, procedures and resources for all Cost services.
• Work closely with the Finance, Commercial, Project Management teams and other Project Controls functions to ensure Cost is integrated with all other functions and aids in informing decisions; and Aid in the development of a benchmarking database and in the reporting process to provide timely and accurate advice to inform decision making.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Membership of the RICS, ACostE, ICES or similar relevant professional association, and degree or equivalent experience or achieved NVQ Level 2 in Project Controls. Experience in high value, complex construction or infrastructure project environments. Understanding of complex and diverging project data, with an ability to assimilate and convert into meaningful metrics and management reports.