Senior Cost Consultant – Cost and Commercial Assurance (CCA)

Arcadis; Guildford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy firm is seeking a Senior Cost Consultant in Guildford. In this role, you will manage cost verification commissions, analyze cost data, and mentor junior staff while interacting with clients and contractors. Ideal candidates will have a degree in Quantity Surveying or Accountancy, with strong organizational and analytical skills. Join us to make impactful contributions to diverse projects and support a more sustainable future.

Benefits

Opportunity for professional advancement

Access to diverse projects

Qualifications

• Degree educated in Quantity Surveying, Accountancy, or similar background.
• Professional Membership (MRICS or ACCA/FCA) is advantageous.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage individual cost verification commissions.
• Evaluate costs against contractual principles.
• Analyze cost data to identify patterns and risks.
• Mentor junior staff in cost assurance practices.

Skills

Understanding of different cost systems

Experience in identifying project risks

Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Beginner to Intermediate PowerBi skills

Knowledge of target cost and cost reimbursable contracts

Strong organizational skills

Effective communication skills

Ability to manage complex data sets

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying, Accountancy, or similar

Tools

COINS

SAP

ICON

Oracle

Job description

Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

As a Senior Cost Consultant within our Cost and Commercial Assurance team you will play a pivotal role in delivering commissions for our clients across a variety of sectors. This involves taking ownership including management of a cost verification exercise and the responsibility for timely delivery through to the effective reporting and presentation of results.

The role will require the successful individual to be in liaising with and presenting to both clients and contractors as well as managing programme obtaining information and factually formulating audit findings & recommendations.

A natural eye for detail is essential but with an ability to position financial and commercial context around the detail to enable our clients to make wider impactful business decisions. The individual should remain output focussed and be able to empathise with our clients points of view.

Role accountabilities

• Manage individual cost verification commissions.
• Detailed evaluation of cost data against contractual / commercial principles.
• Detailed analysis and trending of cost data to identify patterns and key risks.
• Appraisal of cost / commercial management systems and processes.
• Undertaking statistical and non-statistical data sampling.
• Detailed cost verification and payroll & employment contract audits.
• Interfacing with project and finance staff to obtain and discuss key documentation / data.
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Production of close-out reports and working papers.
• Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain.
• Travelling to different sites / locations nationally and internationally to meet stakeholders.
• Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.
• It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives policies and procedures on EDI.

Qualifications & Experience

Ideally you are degree educated in either a Quantity Surveying, Accountancy or similar background. Professional Membership such as MRICS or ACCA / FCA would be advantageous however not essential as professional advancement will be supported.

We have shared some of the experience you may need to really succeed in the role below;

• Understanding of different cost systems and associated processes (COINS SAP ICON Oracle etc).
• Experience in identifying and assessing risks in project environments.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills including a wide understanding of Excel functions.
• Beginner to Intermediate PowerBi skills not essential but desirable.
• Knowledge and competence in the use of target cost and cost reimbursable construction contracts.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a range of individuals at varying levels of seniority.
• Ability to understand, manage and interpret complex data sets from a range of sources.
• Ability to grasp high level concepts and comfort with ambiguity.
• Ability to demonstrate output thinking from the outset.
• Enjoys team working but is also comfortable working alone to tight deadlines.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams : Age Disability Faith Gender LGBT and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.