Cost Manager
Location: Peterborough
Talented people are the key to our success
About us:
Would you like to work for a progressive and ambitious company which is also one of the most successful within the UK construction and infrastructure industry?
Morgan Sindall provides national construction and infrastructure services to private and public sector customers across a comprehensive range of markets. We aim to create great results for our customers, partners and ourselves.
Opportunity:
We have a fantastic opportunity within our Construction & Infrastructure business for an ambitious and talented Cost Manager to work within our Rail & Electrification team.
The successful candidate will be joining the existing team of passionate and dedicated professionals. Working with our Infrastructure business, previous cost management experience is a must.
The role will encompass finance and commercial reporting and analysis for the finance team and the customer including the processing of financial data to compile payment applications, efficiency trackers and KPI reporting.
We are looking for people who share our passion for the project at hand whilst also being able to work within a fun and hardworking team environment.
Read more about our Rail work here - https://construction.morgansindall.com/rail
Responsibilities:
As a Cost Manager you will:
- Delivery of accurate and timely financial and commercial information
- Providing bespoke data analysis to the finance team and end customer
- Supporting the payment application, efficiency tracker and KPI reporting
- Providing financial/commercial support to the project and central teams
- Preparation and submission of payment applications
- Assistance in preparation of annual and monthly forecasts/budgets
- Database reporting and ad-hoc cost analysis
- Assisting in year-end reconciliation
- Assistant with customer auditing
- Supporting the wider commercial function on an ad-hoc basis
Already experienced as a Cost Manager you will be educated with finance or account qualification. You will have Advanced Microsoft office skills – particularly Excel and Access.
About our Rail & Electrification Team
Our customers benefit from the multi-disciplined service we offer in the high speed and underground rail sectors with expertise covering electrification and civil engineering as well as building capabilities including structures, lineside infrastructure, station enhancements and new build.
Our team consists of more than 275 staff - including safety critical staff certified up to engineering supervisor competence level. We work across the UK and Scotland with offices in London, Ware, Rugby, Stoke and Glasgow.
We are a leading provider of construction and isolation services to the rail industry, offering design and build 25kv overhead line and light rail electrification systems, complemented by our own fleet of specialist rail plant.
Our Electrification team provides services across the UK, with a base in Ware, Hertfordshire supported by a specialist electrification training centre and plant depot at Swynnerton, Staffordshire, and Scotland depot at Larkhall, South Lanarkshire.
Our expertise is focused not only on effective project delivery but also on minimising railway user and environmental disruption through innovative working practices. These include ‘live launch’ bridge construction - where bridges are installed while railways beneath remain operational and ‘offline’ construction and modularisation techniques within stations.
Morgan Sindall is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.
Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.
In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.