Senior Cost Manager

Job description / Role

Senior Cost Manager (Abu Dhabi CM Property Team)

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy delivery operations and programme management services to businesses that invest in own and operate assets.

We provide a full range of programme management project services contract services and management consultancy support in all these crucial areas helping clients to meet the ever increasing standards of public expectation and regularity control in their core business. We are also increasingly involved in helping Clients who are determined not simply to adapt to changes imposed on their industry but to lead the process of change themselves.

Working from over 80 offices in over 34 countries we are making the difference to projects across the property infrastructure and natural resources sectors worldwide. We help organisations succeed by managing risk while maximising value and performance during the construction and operation of their assets. As well as helping organisations deliver and integrate new assets as quickly and efficiently as possible we help set the asset strategies that support their corporate objectives.

We also work with our clients to create safe and comfortable environments which are inexpensive to maintain sustainable and practical to conduct business from. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.We offer a complete range of Programme Management Project Services Contract Services and Management Consultancy including Benchmarking capable of supporting our Clients investment strategies at every stage of a development from pre-development planning to final cessation.

We are currently recruiting for Senior Cost Manager vacancies in Abu Dhabi and Dubai UAE.

Key Duties:
Reporting into the Associate Director / Director the successful Senior Cost Manager will be required to help lead the team on the full range of commercial activities such as valuations procurement contract administration cash-flow variations and settlement of final accounts.

Key duties will also include:
- Assisting with accounts selection and payment of subcontractors measurement of works valuations and commercial responsibility for all project financial matters
- Efficient and economic running of specific refurbishment or fast track fit-out contracts
- Preparing financial reports
- Preparing estimates of works
- Assisting in the procurement of subcontractors measurements and payment of subcontractors
- Preparing and submitting cost plans
- Cost reporting/ forecasting

Requirements

- Consultancy experience
- Post-tender analysis
- Preparing bills of quantities
- Cost managing live projects
- Procurement
- Subcontract analysis and final account settlements

You will also have the following skill set:
- At least 5 years post-qualifying / graduating experience
- Stable career history with previous employers
- Strong surveying and measurement experience
- Must be confident driven and able to work in a high pressure environment
- Middle East experience is an advantage

If you like what you have read so far and are keen to join us as a Senior Cost Manager please apply now.

About the Company

We are a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy, delivery, operations and programme management services to businesses that invest in, own and operate assets.

We have a global footprint of 63 offices. Our 2,400 people operate in 28 countries to make a difference for our clients by managing the delivery of their programmes and projects, maximising the performance of their property portfolios and improving their overall business performance.