Cost Manager

Job Description

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Depending on skills and experience.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Cost Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for supporting the Head of Cost and Estimating at a Programme and Contract level. This includes supporting the management of budgets, actual costs, forecasts and Earned Value Management (EVM) to support the successful delivery of HS2.

• Accountable for supporting on the analysis and verification of contract level cost performance and ensuring the data accurately reflects the current programme performance for onward reporting.
• Responsible for supporting on the validation of cost performance data submitted by delivery teams to the programme team as part of communicating overall programme performance.
• Assist with the development of contract level performance reports to communicate current performance to the programme team, including EVM, forecasted costs and Estimate at Completion (EAC) pressures.
• Ensure that the cost performance team are aligned to the current business processes and ways of working from a delivery perspective.
• Support the Senior Cost Manager to ensure adherence with cost performance processes and procedures across the respective programme and maintain data and documents accurately within the corporate systems.
• Provide technical support to the Project Controls Managers on cost performance and assist in the management of contractor teams to support the successful delivery of the HS2 project.
• Work closely with the supply chain to develop a series of defined work-streams to progressively enhance cost performance capabilities within the Phase.
• Facilitate continuous improvement of the Cost Performance function within Phase One programme and capture lessons learnt.
• Ensure that the contract teams are working to the current governance processes and review policies in line with strategic business objectives.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

• Stakeholder management – ability to manage stakeholders within a matrix environment, including the facilitation of stakeholder meetings and information flow.
• Attention to detail – able to solve problems with focus on detail.
• Communication – clear communicator with the ability to deliver presentations engaging and influencing colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Data analysis – able to analyse and interpret data and produce accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats adapted to the needs of the audience.
• Microsoft applications – comfortable with Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other core office tools.

• Project Controls, Commercial and Finance processes – understanding of how these operate.
• Construction contract types – knowledge and commercial awareness of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and communication flows between contractor and client.
• Core Project Controls disciplines – Schedule Management, Change Management, Risk Management.
• Baseline development – maintaining baselines on a major programme.

• Experience in cost management or project control role within a major project.
• Experience in core project controls functions: baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management, performance reporting and document control.
• Experience managing and producing performance reports summarising cost performance, including budgets, EVM and forecasts on major projects.
• Experience in the management and use of core cost management systems.

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

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