Cost & Finance Manager

Turnertownsend; Dublin; On-site; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% Pension

23 days Annual leave

Competitive remuneration

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Ireland seeks a Cost and Finance Manager to act as the key interface between PMO Cost and ML Finance, overseeing cost control data and forecasts for multiple projects. You will lead cost reporting, coordinate with Commercial and Finance, and ensure timely data collation and accuracy.

You will implement cost control structures, manage cashflow forecasts, and support year-end financial statements and asset registers.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent with professional work experience in Project, Cost or Commercial Management disciplines.
• Experience in cost control and financial data collations for multiple projects.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, able to interface with PMO, Commercial and Finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage contract cost and report changes to PMO.
• Raise PO requisitions after data approvals.
• Liaise on payment certificates and inform PMO of pre-payment terms.
• Review and validate cashflow and cost-to-complete forecasts with Commercial.
• Utilise CEMAR for change data and update baselines with cost impacts.
• Pull actuals from SAGE and prepare annual financial statements and commitments.
• Support monthly funding and forecast reporting, including asset register updates.
• Compile data to support monthly cost reports for project budgets.

Skills

Cost control

Cashflow management

Forecasting

PMO liaison

Stakeholder comms

Cost data analysis

Education

Degree in Project/Cost/Commercial Management

Tools

CEMAR

SAGE

Job description

The Cost and Finance Manager is to be the key interface between PMO Cost and ML Finance to collate the financial data and manage the daily activities of the cost control and cost data collation.Set up, implement, and maintain cost control structure and process for completing the financial task and collate and submit data on-time. The successful candidate will provide periodical funding forecasts and monthly updates for projects incorporating progress updates.

Key Accountabilities

• Contract cost management (informed of all changes and report to the PMO)
• Raise PO Requisitions, after commercial have provided the data and been through the approval process.
• Liaise on payment certificates, inform PMO of pre-payment agreements.
• Communicate independently with Commercial team to review, audit and validate cashflow each period and cost-to-complete forecasts.
• Use of CEMAR for change data and reporting to the PMO when changes have been approved and baselines are to be updated with cost impacts.
• Use of SAGE to pull actuals each period.
• Work with Finance to prepare annual Financial statements and future commitments.
• Support Finance with reporting monthly on claimed funding and forecast of spend/commitment.
• Support Finance with financial statements asset register update
• Compile and analyse data on all factors that influence costs.
• Prepare and provide cost data for the monthly cost reports to control and monitor projects total expenditure and ensure that expenditures are kept within the project budget.
• Attend in-house cost control review meetings with the project controls managers/delivery managers/commercial manager and present/answer questions related to project cost.
• Attend either project progress as well as cost status review meetings with the Client and present/answer question related to project cost or keeps themselves fully informed through the minutes of meeting.
• Support the validation and consolidate project monthly dashboards and reports, and raise any issues and concerns
• Manage cost risk and opportunity assessments, supporting mitigation strategies and contingency planning.
• Contribute to benchmarking, lessons learned, and best practice initiatives across the organisation.
• Demonstrates leadership, interface management and core competencies at a managerial level of development and is an exemplary model of living the corporate Values and Code of Ethics
• Ensure risks & opportunities are identified and support the Risk Reviews.
• Demonstrating a clear, systematic approach to solving complex issues and can communicate solutions in an effective, efficient, high-level manner.

Degree or equivalent with professional work experience in one or more specific disciplines in the Project, Cost or Commercial Management disciplines.

What we offer you

• Full time
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 8% Pension
• 23 days Annual leave
• Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
• Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
• Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/