Senior Cost Controller in Brighton

Energy Jobline ZR; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Development opportunities

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR in Brighton is seeking a Senior Cost Controller to oversee cost control and forecasting on major infrastructure projects within a hybrid work model.

Salary is £62,000 with excellent benefits and development opportunities; 2 days in the office and 3 days remote. You will manage budgets, accruals, EAC/ETC, and monthly cost reporting, collaborating with external partners and NEC contract compliance.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage and control project budgets, commitments, actual costs and forecasts aligned to CBS.
• Forecast in month, in year and overall EAC with high accuracy.
• Prepare accruals reflecting VOWD/ACWP aligned to schedule.
• Update forecasts to maintain ETC accuracy.
• Produce monthly cost reports, including variances, trends and contingency drawdown.
• Report on cost performance via Earned Value Management and CPI.
• Review contractor cost reports and payments with external partners.
• Integrate external partner updates into main forecast.
• Manage full lifecycle of cost change events under NEC contracts.
• Monitor external cost impact assessments for early warnings and compensation events.
• Collaborate with planning, risk, change, and other controls functions.
• Support Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis (QCRA).

Skills

Cost management

Forecasting

EVM/CPI

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical ability

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Tools

Prism

Hexagon EcoSys

Excel

Job description

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 lifecycle 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 lifecycle 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)