Senior Cost Consultant – Cost and Commercial Assurance (CCA) in England

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

As a Senior Cost Consultant within our Cost and Commercial Assurance team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering commissions for our clients across a variety of sectors. This involves taking ownership, including management, of a cost verification exercise and the responsibility for timely delivery, through to the effective reporting and presentation of results.

The role will require the successful individual to be confident in liaising with and presenting to both clients and contractors, as well as managing programme, obtaining information and factually formulating audit findings & recommendations. A natural eye for detail is essential, but with an ability to position financial and commercial context around the detail to enable our clients to make wider, impactful business decisions. The individual should remain output focussed and be able to empathise with our clients’ points of view.

Role accountabilities:

• Manage individual cost verification commissions.
• Detailed evaluation of cost data against contractual/commercial principles.
• Detailed analysis and trending of cost data to identify patterns and key risks.
• Appraisal of cost/commercial management systems and processes.
• Undertaking statistical and non-statistical data sampling.
• Detailed cost verification and payroll & employment contract audits.
• Interfacing with project and finance staff to obtain and discuss key documentation/data.
• Management of stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Production of close‑out reports and working papers.
• Presentation of outputs and recommendations to clients and their supply chain.
• Travelling to different sites/locations nationally and internationally to meet stakeholders.
• Mentoring junior staff and upskilling both internal and external stakeholders in the arena of cost and commercial assurance.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Accountancy or similar background.
• Professional Memberships such as MRICS or ACCA/FCA would be advantageous but are not essential.
• An understanding of different cost systems and associated processes (COINS, SAP, ICON, Oracle, etc).
• Experience in identifying and assessing risks in project environments.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including a wide understanding of Excel functions.
• Beginner to Intermediate PowerBi skills, not essential but desirable.
• Knowledge and competence in the use of target cost and cost reimbursable construction contracts.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to work on own initiative.
• The ability to effectively communicate with a range of individuals at varying levels of seniority.
• The ability to understand, manage and interpret complex data sets from a range of sources.
• The ability to grasp high level concepts and comfort with ambiguity.
• The ability to demonstrate ‘output thinking’ from the outset.
• Enjoys team working but is also comfortable working alone to tight deadlines.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximise the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.