Senior Cost Controller - Natural Resources & New Energies
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Company Description
At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client's integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.
Please find out more about us at: https://www.turnerandtownsend.com/en/about-us/our-purpose-and-values/
Job Description
The Opportunity
Turner & Townsend's Natural Resources business has grown 35% in the last 9 months and is set triple in size over the next 3 years. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cost Controller to join our busy and expanding, Natural Resources and New Energies team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Projects/Programmes. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Cost Control community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.
Key Responsibilities
Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider cost control responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Tailoring Cost Control approaches to meet the client's needs and aligning with best practice.
- Implementing, administering, and maintaining cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.
- Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
- 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.
- 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.
- Support the change process by providing cost information for change notes and to underpin forecasts.
- Update project forecasts to ensure comprehensive and aligned Estimate To Complete (ETC).
Qualifications
Skills and behaviours
- Ability to interact with Management / Leadership members when delivering updates on Cost Control within a complex project/programme environment.
- Ability to guide and influence whilst delivering to cost control processes, on complex projects/programmes along with all associated processes & reports.
- Demonstrate leadership whilst developing technical ability of delivery and cost control team.
- Ensure the delivery of quality cost control outputs on time.
- Works to make positive change happen by embracing challenges and opportunities for our clients.
- A UK driving license or the ability to travel to client sites across the region, as required, is essential.
Qualifications and experience
- Familiarity of different cost performance reporting and cost forecasting techniques is essential.
- Experience leading Cost Control Assurance activities as part of project performance cadence is essential.
- A detailed understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting and analysis is essential.
- An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Risk Management, Reporting, Change Control) interact with Cost Control is desirable.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable.
Additional Information
Turner & Townsend is a leading consultancy provider with over 110 offices globally, we make the difference by providing professional services on major, complex projects across the Infrastructure, Defence, Natural Resources and Real Estate sectors. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting major projects in the world.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Additionally, we want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
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