Cost Manager

4 months ago

Sydney, Australia HKA Global Full time

HKA is a leading infrastructure project, strategy, commercial advisory and dispute resolution company. We provide advisory and transformation services to major infrastructure clients and large asset businesses to help them achieve their goals through strategic and operational excellence.

Our Advisory team is an agile group that works with clients to set up their portfolios, programmes and projects for success. We thrive on supporting clients with their most complex challenges and opportunities that are varied and interesting. We have a compelling track record of providing practical, pragmatic solutions and partnering with our clients to implement strategic change.

**What’s on Offer?**
- The opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing team and be part of driving the future success and development of our global business.
- Develop your career working with a Management Consultancy firm that works on large, high profile infrastructure projects.
- Be a part of the complex decision making and judgements on the best strategies that can affect the three critical outcomes of customer service, safety, and cost effectiveness.

**The Opportunity**
- Provide cost control across complex projects with multiple stakeholder interests and interdependencies, raising standards and driving improvements in cost management, in adherence with governance standards and delegations, in tracking variances, with a key focus on a monthly integration with scheduling and risk management.
- Monitor and control budgets through robust forecast and change management.
- Provide expert financial and cost controls advice in relation to contract management, including supporting the management of variations, contractor payments, and invoice disputes on a regular /ad hoc basis.
- Preparation and presentation of Cost Reports, summarising performance, including KPI reporting and variance analysis commentary.
- Preparation of Cost Plans including Cost flow and Cash flow.
- Participate in efforts to analyse systems, processes, and procedures to support continuous improvement.
- Provide timely and authoritative advice to identify, manage and minimise actual and potential cost pressures and drive value for money outcomes.
- Contribute to and identify cost saving opportunities.
- Ensure accurate allocate of Actual Costs.
- Using Earned Value Management and other performance measurement techniques to monitor performance.
- Providing regular updates on key projects and programs, issues, and priorities.

**Skills and Experience**

The role holder may have both direct reports and manage a team of cost controllers and is expected to have demonstrate implementation of best practice.
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications in construction, engineering, finance, or related fields from a recognised tertiary institution.
- Extensive proven experience in the development and delivery of complex rail and/or transport infrastructure projects with specific experience in the development of integrated project controls.
- Experience maintaining effective, best practice project controls.
- Experience in analysing scheduling, risk management, change control including integration with cost control outputs on large infrastructure projects is essential.
- The ability to make complex judgements on the best strategies to maximise preparedness for future requirements and consistently communicating that all decisions can affect the three critical outcomes of customer service, safety, and cost effectiveness.
- Confidence to adapt to a dynamic work environment as it evolves and progresses through substantial change.
- Working collaboratively, exchanging information, and assisting other team members to achieve team objectives and outcomes.

**Close Date: Advertised on 28 August 2024, closing on 25 September 2024.**

**What we Offer**

At HKA we recognise that our people are critical to our ongoing success. Our priority is to provide an inclusive and collaborative culture aimed at providing the best opportunities for our people to thrive and develop in their chosen career path.

We operate a flexible working pattern both in terms of hours and location and are happy with flexible remote working.

**ED&I at HKA**:
HKA has a thriving ED&I committee working hard to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for a truly diverse set of employees. We are committed as a business on the continued improvement of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, please visit our careers page for further information or feel free to ask our recruitment team for further information.

All HKA employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation or any other basis in compliance with local legislation.

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