Job Description
The Role:
As a Senior Cost Manager, you will play a key role in leading the cost management process across a portfolio of multiple complex projects, driving both strategic and operational financial performance. You’ll be responsible for oversight of actual costs and forecasts, as well as budgets and their change control. Our Senior Cost manager will oversee the setting up/maintaining of the project Cost Breakdown Structure (CBS) and its alignment with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and Organisational Breakdown Structure (OBS).
Key Responsibilities:
1. Support the delivery of cost management function by demonstrating the required behaviours to promote the UU vision and its values, to recognised standards in a timely manner.
2. Engage with other key discipline leads – risk, planning, controls etc. to identify areas for improved collaboration and optimisation.
3. Responsible for creating and maintaining the projects’ CBS and its alignment with WBS and OBS.
4. Engage with the matrixed PMO teams, as well as the delivery teams and the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) in order to establish and support cost control.
5. Monitor and control of commitment, journals and accruals in conjunction with the Project Manager
6. Assessment of impact of trends and change, ensuring agreed change to the ba...