El 1 - Cost Assurance, Cost Estimation Assistant

1 day ago

Canberra, Australia Australian Government Full time

$115,899 - $130,733 + up to 15.4% Superannuation
- Canberra - ACT

**The Role**
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The EL 1 Assistant Director - Cost Estimation would be leading a team of cost estimators to work with variety of projects to develop life cycle cost estimates.

Responsibilities would include:

- Leading a team to build cost estimates to support capability gate review and investment committee decisions;
- Supervising staff to work through tender submissions to extract the relevant cost data;
- Liaising with project managers, schedulers and risk managers to understand the cost implications of schedule, uncertainty and risk;
- Presenting cost models to SES and senior leaders including capability gate review, investment committee and external stakeholder review; and
- Liaise with financial and portfolio stakeholders to convey high-level summaries of estimates.
- Cost Assurance_
The EL 1 Assistant Director - Cost Assurance would be providing leadership for a team providing technical cost advice and support to cost estimators and project teams developing cost estimates.

Responsibilities would include:

- Overseeing the review of cost estimates to ensure they comply with the Defence Cost Estimation Standards;
- Managing the provision of advice and recommendations to improve the quality of cost estimates; and
- Lead and be responsible for the preparation of briefs for senior decision makers.

**About our Team**
The Capability Costing Branch works in partnership with the Defence community to drive better practice and transform capability costing. The Branch connects and supports a professional costing community by developing policy and technical solutions, providing strategic and technical costing advice, and building a sustainable costing workforce.

The capability-costing branch is growing and expanding to support Defence through a period of growth to develop accurate and fit for purpose cost estimates. We are looking for people who can work closely with projects to support the development of project cost estimates.

If you have a background in accounting and finance or a STEM field we would love to have you onboard. We are looking for people with experience in projects, cost assurance, estimation and project finance.
- Cost Estimation_
Do you enjoy working in a dynamic environment and working with complex projects?

Our ideal cost estimation leader would:

- Enjoy working closely with projects to deliver successful outcomes;
- Be able to lead a team to investigate and provide advice on requirements in an estimate using best practice methods;
- Be able to lead a team through change and work with projects of differing complexity and scope; and
- Be able to articulate and condense multiple sources of information into a cost estimate brief and/or document suite.
- Cost Assurance_
Do you have a curious mind and enjoy thinking creatively about complex problems to find innovative solutions?

Our ideal cost assurance leader would:

- Have a love of numbers, and costing that drives their curiosity;
- Enjoy leader others to learn and build new skills and knowledge;
- Have excellent stakeholder management skills;
- Be willing to learn and lead others to navigate the organisation and interconnectedness of projects; and
- Be able to analyse information, data, and synthesis this and articulate findings to others.

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