Cost Controller

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.

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Job Description

• Lead cost control activities across multiple project scopes, ensuring alignment with financial governance and performance targets.
• Develop and implement integrated cost control frameworks in collaboration with design, construction, and procurement teams.
• Monitor and forecast project costs, including cash flow, earned value metrics, and risk-adjusted contingency usage; provide insights through trend analysis and early warning indicators.
• Validate contractor claims and payment applications, manage valuations, assess variations, and support commercial negotiations and final account settlements.
• Maintain financial data integrity through disciplined coding, monthly reconciliations, and alignment with finance actuals and project progress.
• Support procurement processes and pre-contract activities, including tender evaluations and cost benchmarking.
• Facilitate change and risk management processes, contributing to impact assessments and helping prevent scope creep through proactive challenge and oversight.
• Coordinate resource planning and maintain project structures in enterprise systems (e.g., SAP), including requisition and order management.
• Build and maintain executive dashboards and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) to communicate cost performance and support decision-making.
• Assist with project closure activities, including asset classification and data capture, and support onboarding of external project controls teams.
• Lead ad hoc initiatives and special projects to enhance project delivery and controls maturity.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant field such as engineering, quantity surveying, or construction management.
• 8 years of experience in capital projects, including full lifecycle involvement and exposure to large-scale developments.
• Strong background in cost control, estimating, and financial planning within project environments.
• Familiarity with risk analysis tools and translating outputs into practical cost and contingency strategies.
• Effective communicator and collaborator, able to work across diverse teams and stakeholder groups.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site or at partner locations when needed.
• Proven ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, and change management using structured data and coding standards.
• Commercially aware with a focus on ethical practices and proactive issue resolution.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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