Estimating & Cost Advisory - Associate Director (Assurance & Advisory)

AtkinsRéalis; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm is looking for a leader in their Project & Programme Services team to oversee cost advisory and assurance services for prestigious projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project delivery and cost management, with the ability to lead and mentor a team. This role enables career growth and offers flexible working arrangements within an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefit package

Flexible working arrangements

Support for chartership aspirations

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cost estimating and forecasting.
• Experience in project business case reviews.
• Proven background in managing costs and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance and advisory service delivery.
• Manage and mentor a high-performing team.
• Communicate findings to senior clients effectively.
• Review team deliverables for quality assurance.

Skills

Understanding of client approaches to project costs

Experience in reviewing major project business cases

Technical expertise in project development

Understanding of commercial and contractual requirements

Knowledge of indirect costs and cost assessment techniques

Stakeholder engagement skills

Chartership with RICS, ICE, AACE or similar

Adaptability across sectors and disciplines

Education

Degree in a relevant field

Job description

Job Description

Become a vital member of our Project & Programme Services (PPS), Complex Infrastructure 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 us as a leader in 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.

Your Purpose:

• Lead assurance and advisory service delivery, focusing on reviewing major projects and niche projects across the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on capital costs.
• Pivot across assurance reviews of various types, focusing on cost and project deliverability across the project lifecycle. Focus areas will range from early-stage feasibility design to detailed design, contract award, live delivery and project close-out.
• Focus on supporting win work activities (bids, proposals, etc.) to grow our portfolio and continuously improving the quality of our client deliverables.
• Line manage and lead the development of a high performing team based in your local office and/or a national location.
• Inspire and mentor our early careers talent.
• Lead teams to produce and contribute your own input directly to delivery of high quality client deliverables, ranging from data analysis models to reports and informative dashboards or presentations.
• Be able to leverage client benchmarking data, in-house data and market data combined with the skills of your team to independently form a view of 'should cost', 'could cost', 'will cost' and 'forecast cost to go / cost at completion'.
• Communicate in a highly effective way key findings and recommendations to senior clients and wider stakeholders. Ensure that complex issues are made easy to understand and that messaging is astute, communicating difficult messages with a focus on how projects can improve.
• Review outputs of team members and provide guidance to them on projects to produce high quality deliverables, and to build their skills for future projects.
• Consult subject matter experts within our wider team to incorporate the best knowledge and information possible into our client deliverables.
• Stay connected with other leaders of the Estimating & Cost Advisory practice and ensure that client deliverables have been suitably reviewed and quality assured before release to clients and stakeholders.

What you will bring:

• A strong understanding of typical client approaches to applying contingency and global thought leadership in the area of cost estimating, cost forecasting and setting up projects (or resetting projects) for success.
• Working experience of input to or reviewing major project business cases, especially as part of assurance reviews feeding into stage gate decision points.
• Strong technical expertise in project development and delivery, with a specialism and demonstrable background in managing and understanding costs.
• Wider understanding of commercial and contractual requirements and the crossover to the impact on estimating or forecasting costs.
• A comprehensive knowledge of indirect costs, cost breakdown structures and techniques to analyse and assess project deliverability.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills including being able to work seamlessly with designers, engineers, project managers and clients.
• Chartership with or demonstrably working towards RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar.
• A clear understanding of the role of consultancy organisations on projects, including the ability to be adaptable to work across multiple sectors and disciplines and have the drive to want to learn new skills.

What we can offer:

• A variety of schemes and the opportunity to work across both UK and International markets.
• Flexible working to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Allow you to grow your career through various routes within the business.
• Support your chartership aspirations with RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar.
• A standout comprehensive benefit package.
• An inclusive, diverse and welcoming team atmosphere!

Why AtkinsRéalis?

Looking for a place where you can engineer a better future? AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, our digital-enabled approach transforms outcomes for people and the environment. You'll have a myriad of projects to choose from and endless possibilities for career growth. More responsibility, acclaimed training programmes and flexible working are part of our inclusive culture of prioritising diversity, health, and happiness.

Join our Project & Programme Services team and expand your career on some of the industry's most exciting and newsworthy construction projects - from Sizewell C to the world's tallest hotel, London's Heathrow Airport to Europe's first eco-friendly mosque. You'll enjoy invaluable exposure to international expertise as well as innovation in local niche areas. Communities are at the heart of our work and our people are proud to be working towards a Net Zero Carbon future and regenerating cities across the UK.

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 promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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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.