This Finance Project Manager/Cost Manager will play a key role in the delivery of a large infrastructure project based in Dublin. This position is a 12 month contract with a very interesting organisation.
The Finance Project Manager/Cost Manager must possess significant and demonstrable experience in undertaking similar role(s) on high-value and complex Programmes, preferably in Infrastructure sectors.
Key Responsibilities
* Forecasting: Produce and maintain accurate costs and cash forecasts and estimates at completion.
* Collect and Validate Cost: Maintain all cost data within the financial control system, including monthly Actual Cost of Work Performed calculations.
* Reporting and Analysis: Collaborate with all disciplines to produce insightful cost analysis, forecasting and actual costs to a defined project controls reporting cycle.
* Measuring and reporting progress monthly: including assessing detailed progress claims, accruals, data updates, trend analysis, and change orders
* Validating Data: Support the review and integration of forecasts provided by Internal Delivery Teams Contractors and Suppliers.
* Change Management and Reporting: Lead and ensure the assessment of all changes and accurate representation of approved Trend and Changes and feed into risk management activities.
* Collaborate: Work closely with Finance, Scheduling, Risk team, Estimating Team in order that costs are collected and profiled consistently.
* Establish project cost baselines: including establishing the Cost Breakdown structure and ensure cost control accounts are aligned
Relevant Experience
* Leads, directs, manages and takes ownership on all commercial aspects of programme delivery
* Managing relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders providing a leadership role to the wider programme team
* Responsible for ensuring all commercially focused activities and outputs are delivered to meet programme objectives including, but not limited to: financial and commercial reporting, capital/revenue planning, funding requests, estimating, capital approval requests, commercial benchmarking, cost performance management and reporting
* Ensure robust cost control measures are adopted and reporting of same
* Lead the successful development, implementation and continuous review of the Programme Commercial Strategy and Estimating Strategy
* Provide strategic leadership with respect to programme funding at corporate and international levels.
* Lead on commercial/financial reporting processes to internal and external stakeholders
Relevant Qualifications:
* Minimum of 10 years Significant and demonstrable experience in leading commercial management on multiple programmes preferably in infrastructure sectors.
* Qualification - Chartership, NFQ 8, Relevant Leadership and Management Training.
* A degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering or Finance or a related field