Estimating & Cost Advisory - Assurance Manager (Assurance & Advisory)

AtkinsRéalis; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking an Assurance Manager to enhance their Project & Programme Services team. This role involves supporting assurance service delivery, reviewing major projects, and providing input to improve client deliverables. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical expertise in project costs and stakeholder engagement skills. Aiming for chartership with recognized institutes is beneficial. Enjoy a collaborative work environment with diverse benefits and culture.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive benefits package

Support for chartership aspirations

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of cost estimation techniques.
• Experience in reviewing major project business cases.
• Ability to communicate complex issues simply.

Responsibilities

• Support assurance and advisory service delivery.
• Contribute to win work activities like bids and proposals.
• Take technical leadership of high-quality client deliverables.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement skills

Technical expertise in project development

Understanding of commercial and contractual requirements

Knowledge of indirect costs and cost breakdown structures

Education

Chartership with RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar

Job description

Overview

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 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 an Assurance Manager - Assurance & Advisory to support our growing business. In Complex Infrastructure we work across three major markets:

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

Your Purpose

• Support 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.
• Work 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.
• Support the leadership team in win work activities (bids, proposals, etc.) to grow our portfolio and provide input to continuously improve the quality of our client deliverables.
• Contribute to the development of a high performing team based in your local office and/or a national location.
• Take technical leadership of delivery of high quality client deliverables, ranging from data analysis models to reports and informative dashboards or presentations.
• Utilise client benchmarking data, in-house data and market data to independently develop robust analysis of 'should cost', 'could cost', 'will cost' and 'forecast cost to go / cost at completion'.
• Contribute to the highly effective communication of key findings and recommendations to senior clients and wider stakeholders. Support project leadership to communicate complex issues so that they are made easy to understand and help produce messaging which is astute, communicating difficult messages with a focus on how projects can improve.
• Where necessary, provide peer review of outputs of other team members to support continuous improvement.
• Consult subject matter experts within our wider team to incorporate the best knowledge and information possible into our client deliverables.
• Stay connected with the wider team and leadership in our Estimating & Cost Advisory practice and contribute to internal review and quality assurance processes for client deliverables.
• Some direct or indirect 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.
• Strong knowledge of indirect costs, cost breakdown structures and techniques to analyse and assess project deliverability.
• 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.

Benefits and Culture

• 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.
• 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.