Cost Control Manager

Job SummaryRevise and reissue MARCO’s cost control procedures and establish them as controlled documents applied consistently across every project.Own the company-wide cost breakdown structure and cost code library and enforce a single coding standard across the portfolio.Establish the monthly cost control reporting cycle, its calendar, its inputs, and its owners.Convert project budgets and margins into working control budgets and maintain them through the variation and change lifecycle.Maintain commitment control across subcontracts and purchase orders, giving visibility of committed, incurred and forecast cost before expenditure is realised.Operate a trend and change register that captures cost movement at the point it becomes knownProduce monthly cost-value reconciliation for every project, cost incurred against value earned, against value certified, and explain the variance at cost-code level.Produce and defend the forecast cost at completion and cost to complete for each project, and identify projects trending towards loss early enough for corrective action to be possible.Provide cost forecasts as an input to the Chief Financial Officer for cash flow planning.Oversee and report project expenditure independently of the operational line and escalate cost exposure directly to the Chief Executive Officer.Provide the independent cost data underpinning the company’s consumption and reconciliation controls across plant and equipment, fuel, bulk materials and labour.Report portfolio cost performance to the Chief Executive Officer monthly, and to the joint-venture boards as required.Exercise dotted-line functional authority over project-based cost control and quantity surveying staff.Participate in the selection and performance review of project cost control and quantity surveying staff and set their technical competency standards.Build and develop cost control capability across the projects.Qualification / Skills and ExperienceBachelor’s degree in quantity surveying, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, or Finance / Accounting with a demonstrated construction track record.Minimum 15 years in construction cost control, project controls or commercial management, including at least 5 years at head-of-function or portfolio level across multiple concurrent projects.Demonstrated personal ownership of cost-value reconciliation and forecast at completion on projects of significant value. Candidates should expect to walk through their own methodology in detail at interview.Practical experience of an ERP cost module, including participation in an implementation, migration or major reconfiguration.Oracle Fusion cost management experience specifically.Professional certification: one of CCP (AACE International), MRICS, or equivalent.Experience of joint-venture cost control and reporting to a JV board.