Cost Assurance Specialist Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,Accounting

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Who are you?

Our Cost Assurance team has extensive experience conducting cost and commercial audits to review supply chain compliance and performance. Our team combines financial / accounting, commercial, technology and quantity surveying skills to form a targeted and bespoke assurance approach for our clients and their challenges and needs. Cost assurance provides an independent verification of cost that supports construction project governance and ensures adherence to contract.

Job Description

Reviewing construction contractor systems, controls, and processes to provide an assessment on their ways of working, using intelligence from around the industry to build a view on best practice.

Analysis and understanding of complex construction contracts.

Perform actual cost audits on monthly invoices.

Supporting on Payroll Audits.

Reviewing financial systems and reporting on the contractors ERP.

Performing testing of data and information using smart techniques and tools such as data visualization and trend / pattern analysis – Power Bi/Tableau

Production of written findings reports that deliver key findings, recommendations and messages in a succinct and professional manner.

Fostering good quality working relationships with clients and those being reviewed built around trust and professionalism.

Engaging with the supply chain to take them on the journey of assurance and encourage collaboration at project/program level.

Qualifications

3 - 5 years of Audit/Accounting experience

Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject

Holds or working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent (, ACCA, CPA,CFA etc.)

Demonstrable experience of delivering service excellence to clients.

The ability to extract, interrogate and assess large data sets to problem solve and produce outputs that can be used in the decision-making process.

Ability to work autonomously and in fast-paced environment, and able to adapt and meet challenges as they develop during the delivery stage.

Assurance or audit - in a construction, commercial or accountancy setting

Assessment of accuracy and entitlement to cost.

Data analysis – ability to review and draw insights from large quantities of data in various formats – Power Bi/Tableau experience preferred

Supporting on report writing – communicating complex messages succinctly to maximize impact in written formats.

Additional Information

What's in it for you...

100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)

Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program

RRSP option with company matching

Annual learning and development budget

Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth

Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role

We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days

A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives

Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging

The base salary…