Cost Assurance Consultant

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis is hiring a Cost Assurance Consultant – Cost Verification and Assurance to support complex infrastructure projects in our Delivery Partner team. You will provide cost verification, audit and assurance activities across NEC4 contracts, analyse large data sets, and deliver findings to senior stakeholders.

The role requires experience in cost and commercial assurance, strong data analysis skills, and excellent communication.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cost and commercial assurance/audit activities.
• Ability to interpret a wide range of contracts and cost components.
• Comfort with analysing large data sets and different costing systems.
• Ability to interrogate data and produce decision-ready outputs.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Experience working within a client organisation or through secondment.

Responsibilities

• Provide cost verification, audit and assurance activities for large-scale projects.
• Evaluate cost data against contractual and commercial principles.
• Analyse supplier costs to identify patterns, risks and opportunities.
• Deliver detailed payroll audits and data sampling for targeted reviews.
• Assess cost capture processes and advise on contract documentation (NEC4).
• Engage with client teams and stakeholders to substantiation data and findings.
• Present high-quality assurance reports to senior stakeholders and clients.
• Support integration of digital tools for data analysis and reporting.

Skills

Cost verification

Audit activities

Contract interpretation

Data analysis

Data interrogation

Report writing

Communication

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Estimating/QS/Engineering/Construction or equivalent

Tools

NEC3/4 contracts

Job description

Job Description Overview

Become a vital member of our Complex Projects, Delivery Partner team, proudly taking on some of the world's most exciting and prestigious projects. Join us, and you'll be part of our genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone is supported to make the most of their talents. It's about recognising everyone's contributions equally while delivering excellence together. When you join our practice team, you'll share our vision to be the industry’s foremost capability in Estimating & Cost Advisory and always doing what's right. Enjoy a diverse and exciting workload surrounded by talented colleagues ready to lend a hand. You'll support multi-disciplinary and specialist project teams on high-profile schemes across a range of sectors, delivering high impact estimating services to a range of key clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career and develop our internal capabilities.

We are looking to hire a Cost Assurance Consultant – Cost Verification and Assurance to support our growing business. In Complex Projects we work across three major markets:

• Infrastructure (Water, Defence, Aviation, etc.)
• Transport (Rail, Highways, Local Authorities, etc.)
• Energy (Nuclear, Renewable Energy, Power, etc.)

Your role

Provide cost verification, audit and assurance activities, including forensic reviews across large-scale complex infrastructure projects. Support and deliver evaluation of cost data and structures, assessing them against contractual/commercial principles. Analyse supplier cost data to identify patterns, themes, trends and risks. Provide detailed cost verification, payroll audits and wider data sampling for targeted audit activities. Assess and appraise cost capture and commercial management processes. Identify supplier commercial process improvement opportunities for improved commercial governance and cost control. Interpret and advise on contract documentation, particularly under NEC4 contracts. Engage with client teams, contractors and other project stakeholders to complete cost verification/substantiation together with obtaining key documentation and data. Deliver high-quality assurance reports and present those findings to senior stakeholders. Support the presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their wider supply chain. Support the integration of innovative digital tools for data analysis and reporting.

About you

• Demonstratable experience of delivering cost and commercial assurance/audit activities.
• Competent in the interpretation of a wide range of contracts, with experience in the application of the principles of a schedule of cost components.
• Experienced and comfortable analysing large data sets as well as experience of different costing systems.
• The ability to interrogate and assess data sets and produce outputs that can be used in the decision-making process.
• Bachelor’s degree in an Estimating, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction sectors or Equivalent Work Experience.
• Chartership with or demonstrably working towards RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar.
• Good working knowledge of NEC3/4 suit of contracts across all option types.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, working through challenges as they develop during the delivery stage.
• Strong report writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a colocation/secondment arrangement.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life. Be rewarded. Find out more.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Additional information

Security Clearance This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital. News and information are available at Atkinsrealis or follow us on LinkedIn.