Senior Cost Controller - Brighton / Hybrid

REAL Technical Solutions Limited; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Development opportunities

Job summary

REAL Technical Solutions Limited is seeking a Senior Cost Controller for Brighton with a hybrid pattern: 2 days per week in the office or on site and 3 days remote.

You will oversee cost control and forecasting on key infrastructure projects, ensuring accurate cost management across the project life cycle and robust reporting to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated extensive experience in cost management for large infrastructure projects.
• Strong analytical and numerical capability.
• Proactive, detail-oriented and able to operate in a fast-paced project environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills with senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and control project budgets, commitments, actual costs and forecasts aligned to CBS.
• Prepare monthly cost reports with variance analysis, trends and contingency drawdown.
• Maintain accurate ETC, EAC and forecasting for in-month and in-year horizons.
• Review contractor cost reports and payments; ensure integration into main forecast.
• Manage and report cost performance via EVM/CPI.
• Collaborate with external partners to align cost forecasts across the project.

Skills

Cost management

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Prism

EcoSys

Excel

Job description

Senior Cost Controller - Brighton/Hybrid

£62,000 plus excellent benefits and development opportunities/2 days per week either in the office or on site (3 days remote)

The Senior Cost Controller is responsible for overseeing the cost control and forecast on key infrastructure projects. They will be responsible for robust cost management throughout the project life cycle ensuring accurate cost forecasting, detailed analysis of actual cost and assessing and monitoring change.

Accountabilities for the Senior Cost Controller:

Cost control:

• Manage and control project budgets, commitments, actual costs and forecasts aligned to project Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS).
• Responsible for high degree of forecasting accuracy for in month, in year and overall project Estimate at Completion (EAC).
• Prepare and manage accruals to ensure timely and accurate reflection of the Value of Work Done (VOWD)/Actual Cost Work Performed (ACWP) aligned to the project schedule.
• Update project forecasts to maintain an accurate and comprehensive Estimate to Complete (ETC)
• Produce monthly cost reports, including cost performance analysis, variances, trends, forecasts and contingency drawdown.
• Manage and report on cost performance through Earned Value Management (EVM) and Cost Performance Index (CPI).

External partners:

• Conduct reviews of contractor cost reports and application for payments.
• Work collaboratively with external partners to ensure integrated cost forecasts are developed and maintained.
• Ensure monthly cost updates are received from external partners and integrated into main cost forecast.
• Review and understand monthly variances in external partner cost performance updates.

Change Management:

• Manage the full life cycle of change events, including logging, quantifying, evaluating and implementing variations.
• Monitor and review external cost impact assessments for early warnings, compensation events and scope changes in accordance with NEC contract conditions.

Stakeholder Management:

• Work collaboratively with other project controls functions, planning, risk, change ensuring alignment across all functions.
• Contribute to and support the Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA) process.

Skills & Competencies for the Senior Cost Controller:

• Demonstrable extensive experience working in a cost management role within large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong analytical and numerical capability.
• Proactive, detail-oriented and able to operate effectively in a fast-paced project environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to work closely with senior project leaders.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to form effective working relationships with multiple stakeholders.

Knowledge required for the Senior Cost Controller:

Technical:

• Expert user of Cost Management software such as Prism, Hexagon EcoSys along with strong excel skills.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts and key clauses (clause 31, 32, early warnings, compensation events).
• Experience in dealing with regulatory bodies and reporting.

Senior Cost Controller - Brighton/Hybrid

£62,000 plus excellent benefits and development opportunities/2 days per week either in the office or on site (3 days remote)