Associate Director - Cost Control

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Job Description

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director (Cost Control) to join our busy and expanding, Defence team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Infrastructure Projects/Programmes. This will be to work on growing our cost capability in the Southwest. Additionally, this role will provide the opportunity to innovate, collaborate and learn from our experienced and award-winning Cost Control community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

Working alongside project delivery teams as part of a wider cost control team and leading experienced cost professionals, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Leading teams of Cost Control professionals on complex projects or programmes.

Driving continuous improvement in cost control (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.

Driving the implementation, embedding and roll-out of any identified changes to cost control processes.

Appropriately selecting, implementing, administering, and maintaining cost control systems and procedures to track project budgets, commitments, expenditures, and forecasts.

Lead the team and provide guidance on production of accruals to ensure that the Actual Cost of Work Performed is accurately reflected in a timely manner in the cost data.

Provide subject matter advice and manage the development of reporting tracking tools, where required, and generate Cost reports on a regular basis, including evaluation of earned value.

Defining how to build and assure project forecast to account for all residual works in the Estimate to Complete (ETC) and the development of the Estimate at Completion (EAC) incorporating required supply chain information.

Managing and leading the production of cost reports to a defined reporting cycle.

Providing Cost information and subject matter advice, where required, to the project team to develop status reports, keep management informed on project progress, and to support performance management decision making.

Present / provide performance recovery recommendations to relevant stakeholders and senior management to support effective decision making.

Supporting T&T’s recruitment activities to grow and develop the project controls capability.

Qualifications

Experience in Cost Control on complex projects/programmes is essential.

Practical experience of different cost performance reporting and cost forecasting techniques is essential.

Practical experience of Earned Value Management (EVM), progress reporting, forecasting and performance reporting and analysis is essential.

Practical experience of using MS Excel and other MS applications.

Experience of interfacing risk with other Project Controls disciplines (Scheduling, Risk Management, Change Control) is essential.

Experience in leadingteams is essential.

Familiarity with various Cost Control tools.

An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Cost Engineering is essential.

The ability to work in both delivery and transformation projects is desirable.

Familiarity with NEC contracts.

Due to the nature of this role applicants will require to hold or have the ability to achieve secuirty clearance. Therefore unfortunately, we can only accept applications from sole British nationals

Additional Information

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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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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