Cost Assurance Consultant

Job Description

Overview

Become a vital member of our Complex Projects, Delivery Partner team, proudly taking on some of the world's most exciting and prestigious projects. Join us, and you'll be part of our genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone is supported to make the most of their talents. It's about recognising everyone's contributions equally while delivering excellence together.

When you join our practice team, you'll share our vision to be the industry’s foremost capability in Estimating & Cost Advisory and always doing what's right.

Enjoy a diverse and exciting workload surrounded by talented colleagues ready to lend a hand. You'll support multi-disciplinary and specialist project teams on high-profile schemes across a range of sectors, delivering high impact estimating services to a range of key clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career and develop our internal capabilities.

We are looking to hire a Cost Assurance Consultant – Cost Verification and Assurance to support our growing business. In Complex Projects we work across three major markets:.

Infrastructure (Water, Defence, Aviation, etc.).

Transport (Rail, Highways, Local Authorities, etc.).

Energy (Nuclear, Renewable Energy, Power, etc.).

Your role

• Provide cost verification, audit and assurance activities, including forensic reviews across large-scale complex infrastructure projects.

• Support and deliver evaluation of cost data and structures, assessing them against contractual/commercial principles.

• Analyse supplier cost data to identify patterns, themes, trends and risks.

• Provide detailed cost verification, payroll audits and wider data sampling for targeted audit activities.

• Assess and appraise cost capture and commercial management processes.

• Identify supplier commercial process improvement opportunities for improved commercial governance and cost control.

• Interpret and advise on contract documentation, particularly under NEC4 contracts.

• Engage with client teams, contractors and other project stakeholders to complete cost verification/substantiation together with obtaining key documentation and data.

• Deliver high-quality assurance reports and present those findings to senior stakeholders.

• Support the presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their wider supply chain.

• Support the integration of innovative digital tools for data analysis and reporting.

About you

• Demonstratable experience of delivering cost and commercial assurance/audit activities.

• Competent in the interpretation of a wide range of contracts, with experience in the application of the principles of a schedule of cost components.

• Experienced and comfortable analysing large data sets as well as experience of different costing systems.

• The ability to interrogate and assess data sets and produce outputs that can be used in the decision-making process.

• Bachelor’s degree in an Estimating, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction sectors or Equivalent Work Experience.

• Chartership with or demonstrably working towards RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar.

• Good working knowledge of NEC3/4 suit of contracts across all option types.

• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, working through challenges as they develop during the delivery stage.

• Strong report writing and presentation skills.

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a colocation/secondment arrangement.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life. Be rewarded. Find out more.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Additional information

Security Clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.