Lead Cost Engineer
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Responsibilities
- Own portfolio-wide cost reporting and monthly cost control cycles.
- Manage budgets, allocations, transfers, and cost coding across contracts.
- Develop detailed forecasts, forecast-at-completion positions, and closeout projections.
- Oversee monthly accrual validation, reconciliation, aging reviews, and clearing of unsupported items.
- Track commitments, actuals, liabilities, settlements, and exposure through contract closure.
- Prepare cash flow forecasts and funding requirements for termination, demobilization, preservation, settlement, and closeout.
- Reconcile SAP, Oracle Unifier, commercial records, and project reporting data.
- Lead cost inputs for weekly and monthly reports, dashboards, and presentations.
- Provide cost substantiation for claims, disputes, settlements, and final account reviews.
- Establish reporting templates, controls, and audit trails.
- Explain movements across budgets, commitments, accruals, actuals, cash flow, and forecasts.
- Support portfolio reviews and senior stakeholder discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
- 20+ years of experience in project controls and cost management, including 10+ years on major projects in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.
- Proven experience managing cost control on mega-projects or mixed-use programs with multi-billion SAR portfolios and high contract volumes.
- Substantial experience across budgets, accruals, forecasts, commitments, cash flow, funding, and cost reconciliation.
- Experience supporting contract termination, demobilization, preservation, final account, or closeout activities.
- Experience with claims, disputes, and settlements.
- Hands-on proficiency with SAP and Oracle Unifier, along with advanced Excel skills and experience using reporting and dashboard tools.
- Experience presenting cost positions to senior leadership and working directly with client-side teams.
- Experience handling commercial discussions across contractors and consultants.
- Professional proficiency in English.
- Experience as part of an owner, IPMT, PMC, or major program organization is preferred.
- Holding a PMP, CCP, RICS, AACE, or comparable credential is a plus.
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