Talent Pool - Cost Management, Colombia

Turner & Townsend; Bogotá; Presencial; COP 33.480.000 - 55.800.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global consulting firm in Bogotá is seeking a Cost Manager to oversee cost management and reporting for major projects. The ideal candidate will hold a relevant degree and possess strong local market knowledge, along with fluency in English and Spanish. Responsibilities include preparing procurement reports, managing contracts, and ensuring financial accuracy throughout project delivery.

Formación

• High degree of accuracy required.
• Ability to manage contracts and costs effectively.
• Experience in financial management systems.

Responsabilidades

• Assist on feasibility studies and write procurement reports.
• Estimate and plan costs, producing final cost plans.
• Review payment applications and ensure payments are in order.
• Negotiate and agree on final accounts.

Conocimientos

Fluent English

Fluent Spanish

Local market cost knowledge

Educación

Bachelor´s Degree in Quantity Surveying, Architecture, Civil – Mechanical Engineering or related

Descripción del empleo

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports


• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan


• Development of the cost procedures


• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents


• Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager


• Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change requests


• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place


• Analyze the project budget, monitor expenditure and costs against delivered products and services


• Review payment applications, monitor invoicing and ensure payments are in order


• Report the progress at regular intervals with the Senior Cost Manager, and manage communications with all stakeholders until project delivery and financial close out, producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client


• Review monthly reports as presented by Contractor, and present to the Senior Cost Manager and Client


• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts


• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages


• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities


• Financial management – Utilizing Financial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels


• Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager


• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database: share systemized lessons learned


• The job holder is required to carry out all tasks within his/her level of skill and ability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor´s Degree in Quantity Surveying, Architecture, Civil – Mechanical Engineering or related


• High degree of accuracy and local market cost knowledge


• Fluent English & Spanish

Additional Information

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CVs that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs will be treated as a direct application.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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