Cost Manager - Brisbane, Australia - HKA Global

HKA Global

Verified Company

Brisbane, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

HKA is one of the world's leading privately owned, independent providers of consulting, expert and advisory services for the construction, manufacturing, process, and technology industries.

As trusted independent consultants, experts, and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide.

Our experts have testified across the globe on many of the largest quantum, delay, engineering, and commercial damages matters.

What's on Offer?

The opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing team and be part of driving the future success and development of our global business.
Develop your career working with a Management Consultancy firm that works on large, high profile infrastructure projects.
Be a part of the complex decision making and judgements on the best strategies that can affect the three critical outcomes of customer service, safety, and cost effectiveness.

The Opportunity

Provide cost control across complex projects with multiple stakeholder interests and interdependencies, raising standards and driving improvements in cost management, in adherence with governance.
Monitor and control budgets through robust forecast and change management.
Lead the estimation of new scope and cost impact of changes throughout the project lifecycle.
Provide expert cost controls advice in relation to contract management, including the management of variations, contractor payments and invoice disputes on a regular or ad hoc basis.
Preparation of Cost Reports, summarising performance, including KPI reporting and variance analysis commentary.
Participate in efforts to analyse systems, processes, and procedures to support continuous improvement.
Provide timely and authoritative advice to identify, manage and minimise actual and potential cost pressures and drive value for money outcomes.

Skills and Experience

The role holder may have both direct reports and manage a team of cost controllers and cost estimators and is expected to demonstrate implementation of best practice.

Appropriate tertiary qualifications in construction, engineering, finance, quantity surveying, estimating or related fields from a recognised tertiary institution.
Extensive proven experience in the development and delivery of complex infrastructure projects with specific experience in the development of integrated project controls.
Experience maintaining effective, best practice project controls.
Experience leading, inspiring and motivating the team whilst providing direction, and managing performance.
Working collaboratively, exchanging information, and assisting other team members to achieve team objectives and outcomes.
The ability to make complex judgements on the best strategies to maximise preparedness for future requirements and consistently communicating that all decisions can affect the three critical outcomes of customer service, safety, and cost effectiveness.
Confidence to adapt to a dynamic work environment as it evolves and progresses through substantial change.

What we offer:

At HKA we recognise that our people are critical to our ongoing success.

Our priority is to provide an inclusive and collaborative culture aimed at providing the best opportunities for our people to thrive and develop in their chosen career path.

We operate a flexible working pattern both in terms of hours and location and are happy with flexible remote working.

CLOSING DATE:9 July 2023

ED&I at HKA:

HKA has a thriving ED&I committee working hard to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for a truly diverse set of employees.

We are committed as a business on the continued improvement of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy, please visit our careers page for further information or feel free to ask our recruitment team for further information.

All HKA employment decisions are firstly made on merit and shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, or any other basis in compliance with local legislation.