Cost Management Support (6 Month Contract)

ARGYLL SCOTT CONSULTING PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ARgyll Scott Consulting Pte. Ltd. is seeking a Technology Cost Management specialist for a Singapore-based contract role. You will lead cost deep dives, reconcile CAM allocations, and set up a repeatable monthly cost governance cadence.

Ideal candidates have FP&A-style finance control experience, strong reconciliation skills, and advanced Excel (Pivot Tables; PowerQuery a plus). Attention to detail and stakeholder management are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cost management or FP&A support in finance control or regulated environments.
• Strong reconciliation skills and ability to trace costs to source data and explain variances clearly.
• Familiarity with CAM concepts and cost attribution, charging methods, and allocations.
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables; PowerQuery is a plus.
• Detail-oriented, able to challenge stakeholders and drive issues to closure.

Responsibilities

• Analyse monthly technology costs, identify movements, anomalies and drivers; reconcile with finance reporting and source records.
• Review CAM allocations, validate charging, and trace costs to drivers (consumption, subscriptions, asset counts, usage).
• Collect and validate documentation (invoices, POs, contracts/SOWs, consumption reports, approvals) and confirm correct charging to entities/cost centres.
• Set up and run a monthly cost review cadence with templates and actions tracker; produce a concise MI pack of cost position, CAM changes, and risks/issues.
• Document CAM rule/driver/mapping changes with rationale, approvals, and effective dates; remediate gaps and duplicates.

Skills

Cost management

Reconciliation

CAM allocations

Finance control

FP&A support

Advanced Excel

Pivot tables

PowerQuery

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Pivot tables

PowerQuery

Job description

Our client, a leading financial services organisation in Singapore, is looking for a Technology Cost Management specialist to join on a contract basis. This role will lead a technology cost deep dive reconciling costs, validating CAM allocations, and setting up a repeatable monthly cost governance cadence.

What you'll do:

• Analyse monthly technology costs, identifying key movements, anomalies, and drivers; reconcile amounts between finance reporting and source records
• Review CAM allocations, validate charging against agreed methodology, and trace costs back to drivers (consumption, subscriptions, asset counts, usage metrics)
• Collect and validate supporting documentation (invoices, POs, contracts/SOWs, consumption reports, approvals) and confirm correct charging to entity/cost centre/project
• Set up and run a monthly cost review cadence — timetable, templates, actions tracker — and produce a concise MI pack covering validated cost position, key movements, CAM changes, and risks/issues
• Document CAM rule/driver/mapping changes with rationale, approvals, and effective dates, and drive remediation of gaps, duplicates, or outdated allocations to closure

What you’re bring:

• Proven experience in cost management, performance management, finance control, or FP&A-style support, ideally within Technology and/or a regulated environment
• Strong reconciliation skills — able to trace reported costs to source and explain variances clearly
• Familiarity with allocation/chargeback (CAM) concepts and cost attribution
• Advanced Excel (pivot tables essential; PowerQuery a plus)
• Sharp attention to detail, comfortable with imperfect data
• Confident communicator, able to constructively challenge stakeholders and drive issues to closure