Senior Cost Controller

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Group Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cost Controller to join our Defence North team.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a range of high-profile Infrastructure Projects/Programmes, undertaking Controls & Performance duties and providing the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Cost Control community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

As a Senior Cost Controller, you will work alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider cost control team or independently with reach back support to experienced cost professionals, responsibilities will include:

  • Promoting the benefits and requirements of Cost Control within the project and programme team.
  • Implementing, administering, and maintaining cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.
  • Development of project Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), align the time phasing of budgets against the Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), to accurately track and control actual costs.
  • Map and integrate cost estimates to the Work Breakdown Structure, in order to set the project budget against the correct Work Packages, Planning Packages and Control Accounts.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with interfacing disciplines including, but not limited to, Finance, Commercial and Project Managers to ensure alignment of project information.
  • Lead the production of accruals to ensure that the Actual Cost of Work Performed is accurately reflected in a timely manner in the cost data.
  • Providing Cost information and advice, where required, to the project team to develop status reports, keep management informed on project progress, and to support performance management decision making.
  • Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on cost control processes and practices.

Familiarity of different cost performance reporting and cost forecasting techniques is required.

Experience leading Cost Control Assurance activities as part of project performance cadence is also required.

A detailed understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting and analysis is essential.

Practical experience of using MS Excel and other MS applications is necessary.

An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Risk Management, Reporting, Change Control) interact with Cost Control is desirable.

The ability to travel to client sites across the region as required is also necessary.

In order to progress your application, it is essential that you are a sole British national passport holder, with current security clearance, or the ability to achieve this.



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