Cost & Finance Manager

Turner-; Newtown Blackrock; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

23 days annual leave

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost and Finance Manager to be the key interface between PMO Cost and ML Finance, collating financial data and managing daily cost control activities. The role involves setting up cost control structures, supervising data submission, and providing funding forecasts for multiple projects.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in a relevant discipline and experience in project, cost or commercial management, with the ability to communicate with cross-functional

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Set up, implement, and maintain cost control structure and process for completing the financial task and collate and submit data on-time.
• Provide periodical funding forecasts and monthly updates for projects incorporating progress updates.
• Attend in-house cost control review meetings and present cost information to project controls and commercial teams.
• Manage cost data, cashflow, and cost-to-complete forecasts, liaising with PMO and Finance.
• Support monthly dashboards, asset register updates, and financial statements preparation.

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

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 ofSAGEto 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.

Qualifications

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

Additional Information

What we offer you:

• Full time
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 23days 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.

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