Associate Cost Consultant

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a cost consultant and a senior cost consultant. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider working across a range of projects such as large commercial new builds for blue chip clients, private residential, towers and national government frameworks etc.
Your core duties will involve:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Private commercial sector experience ideally experience gained from some of the following: offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurb
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software
• Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI
• Contract administration skills.
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills

What Youll Get in Return:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including private medical insurance and enhanced pension
• 25 days holiday (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus option to buy additional leave
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• £400 annual healthy living subsidy
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Paid professional subscriptions
• Clear progression routes and global career mobility
• Supportive, inclusive working culture focused on your development

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