Within our southwest region our infrastructure team has strong positions in Highways, Utilities, Rail and Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.
We are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of technical understanding in their core area of activity.
Job Description:
Within our southwest region our infrastructure team has strong positions in Highways, Utilities, Rail and Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.
We are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of technical understanding in their core area of activity.
Job Objectives:
- Implement, administer and maintain cost control system and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures and forecasts for projects of medium complexity and value
- Assist in the preparation and review of cost estimates
- Provide cost information to support decision and alternative selection
- Evaluate contractor invoices prior to submission for pre-approval
- Utilize information from Cost Capture System and input to cost report and validation of spending
- Evaluate and analyse fee proposals / bids and provide recommendation for decision making
- Provide forecasts and cash flow analysis
- Maintain and manage the cost report and provide regular updates on financial position
- Assist in the development, validation and maintenance of the project schedule
- Assist in developing reporting tracking tools and generates cost reports on regular basis including evaluation of earned value
- Support the coordination of the Change Management process for the project
- Build intricate spreadsheets to enable fast and accurate data manipulation of large datasets
- Extract data from several sources, transforming it to fit operational needs
- Reconcile data to support complete accuracy and creates a clean audit trail
Required Skills:
- Computer literacy in Microsoft applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge and Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as SAP, Sage etc.
- Demonstrable Project Cost Control techniques.
- Able to coordinate and work with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge.
- Good research and analytical skills, as well as excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Professional working knowledge of Project Controls software and tools.