Cost/Senior Cost Controller (Hybrid Working) Full-Time

Turner & Townsend; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Engineer to support major projects in the delivery of accurate cost information and performance reporting. The role requires a graduate in a relevant discipline with 5–10 years’ experience in project controls and a solid understanding of Earned Value Management.

The candidate will contribute to cost reporting, budget alignment, and forecast development in a UK project environment.

Qualifications

• Graduate in a relevant discipline with 5–10 years' project controls experience.
• Experience delivering controls services on major projects or programmes.
• Understanding of Earned Value Management metrics is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop project cost control data structures to track actual costs.
• Establish project control budgets aligned with baselines.
• Track actual costs for internal and external expenditure against controls structures.
• Monitor accruals and commitments against budgets.
• Build forecasts including ETC and EAC.
• Report project information including Earned Value Management.
• Track contingency and exposure from risks.
• Monitor change control to align with baselines.
• Identify trends informing future change controls.

Skills

Cost control

Earned Value Management

Education

Graduate in a relevant discipline

Job description

Company 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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Cost Engineers support major projects and organisations in the delivery of accurate and timely project information relating to performance against the project baselines. The cost engineer would drive the cost performance reporting for the project including all Earned Value Management metrics associated with key project commitments and expenditures.

Duties

• Development of project cost control data structures to accurately track and control actual costs
• Establishing and setting the project control budget aligned with agreed baselines
• The tracking of actual costs both for internal and external expenditure against the cost controls structures
• The tracking and control of project accruals and commitments against set budget constraints
• The build of project forecast to include for estimated work to complete (ETC) and the development of the estimate at complete (EAC)
• The accurate and timely reporting of all project information including Earned Value Management
• The tracking of project contingency and exposure associated with risk events and remaining risks on the project
• The tracking of project change control to ensure alignment with agreed baselines and control data structures
• The tracking of key project trends which can inform future change controls

Qualifications

Typically, a qualified graduate in a relevant discipline with five to ten years experience in the delivery of project controls services for major projects or programmes.

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.

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

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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