Cost Controller | Infrastructure

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a seasoned cost controller to oversee and enhance cost management practices across a diverse portfolio in Adelaide, Australia. The role focuses on ensuring financial transparency, governance, and strategic insights to support informed decision-making.

You will drive standardized cost controls, strengthen contract oversight, and lead data-driven reporting to senior stakeholders while advancing automation and reporting capabilities across programs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cost control functions within large-scale portfolios or infrastructure programs.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistent and transparent cost control processes across all projects and programs.
• Strengthen governance and contract oversight through risk reflection and financial alignment.
• Champion digital transformation by implementing scalable tools and ensuring data integrity.
• Provide strategic cost insights and reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Support portfolio-level change management and maintain alignment across controls disciplines.
• Promote continuous improvement through process refinement and automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance reporting and cost modelling capabilities.

Skills

Cost control

Budgeting

Forecasting

Contract management

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Tools

PPM systems

Dashboards/Analytics

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

We are seeking a seasoned cost controller to oversee and enhance cost management practices across a diverse portfolio. This role is pivotal in ensuring financial transparency, governance, and strategic insights that support informed decision-making.

• Drive consistent and transparent cost control processes across all projects and programs.
• Strengthen governance and contract oversight through risk reflection and financial alignment.
• Champion digital transformation by implementing scalable tools and ensuring data integrity.
• Provide strategic cost insights and reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Support portfolio-level change management and maintain alignment across controls disciplines.
• Promote continuous improvement through process refinement and automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance reporting and cost modelling capabilities.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will bring a strong blend of leadership, technical expertise, and strategic thinking.

• Proven experience in cost control functions within large-scale portfolios or infrastructure programs.
• Deep understanding of cost management practices including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Strong capability in contract management, risk reflection, and financial governance.
• Proficiency in digital tools such as PPM systems, dashboards, and analytics platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex cost data and deliver actionable insights.
• Experience in driving process improvement, automation, and standardisation.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to coach and develop team members to build commercial and technical capability.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

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.

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.

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