Senior Cost Manager, Infrastructure & Capital Projects

Responsibilities

• Lead budget management, cost planning, and estimating activities, ensuring budgets are proactively managed, compliant with client standards, and aligned with approved cost commitment schedules.
• Review, validate, and coordinate general contractor and developer estimates, supporting presentations and approvals in line with internal processes and industry best practices.
• Manage end‑to‑end change management, including logging, reviewing, categorizing, forecasting, and reporting all change orders for cost and schedule impact.
• Lead project cost reporting, cash flow forecasting, accruals, variance analysis, and cost‑at‑completion trending, ensuring systems and regional reports are kept current.
• Oversee payment applications and invoice management, reviewing pay applications, invoices, GMP audits, and billing milestones for contract compliance and accuracy.
• Track and manage project risks and opportunities related to cost and schedule, ensuring forecasted costs and schedules reflect identified risks.
• Collaborate with project teams, developers, contractors, vendors, and commercial operations to support funding requests, purchase orders, and financial workflows.
• Manage cash flow and accrual processes, including earned value tracking, monthly forecasting, and variance analysis across all active purchase orders.
• Ensure cost data, change orders, and forecasts are accurately uploaded and maintained in client cost management and reporting systems.
• Support full project financial closeout by validating as‑built cost documentation, coordinating PO closures, managing retention releases, and returning unused funds.

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, Engineering, Finance, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
• Minimum of 8 years of project cost controls, project controls, or commercial management for large‑scale construction or infrastructure programs
• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting data center, mission‑critical, or hyperscale infrastructure projects
• Proficiency with cost management and reporting systems, including enterprise tools used for budgeting, forecasting, change orders, cash flow, and accrual tracking
• Hands‑on experience working with contractors, developers, and owner teams on payment applications, invoices, GMP audits, and contract compliance.

• budget management
• cost planning
• estimating
• change management
• cost reporting
• cash flow forecasting
• variance analysis
• invoice management
• earned value tracking
• financial closeout

• collaboration
• communication
• leadership
• organizational skills
• risk management