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Cost Reporting Lead

Job Category:  Finance
Contract Partner Company:  MEH Alliance
Employing Company:  Manpower

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Cost Reporting Lead
MEHA

 

Salary £82,400.00-106,100.00

Permanent


As a Cost Reporting Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance. You play a central role in shaping the financial performance of a major UK engineering and infrastructure programme. This is a high impact position where your insight, leadership, and analytical expertise directly support national defence, engineering excellence and large scale programme delivery. You lead a growing cost team, drive best practice reporting, elevate forecasting accuracy, and influence commercial outcomes across multi partner delivery environments.


Benefits


•    Generous holiday allowance
•    Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
•    Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
•    Employee share scheme
•    Employee shopping savings portal
•    Payment of Professional Fees
•    Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
•    Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
•    'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
•    Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.


Job Responsibilities


•    Leading and developing a team of 12 to deliver high quality cost reporting, forecasting and financial governance.
•    Producing accurate monthly Applications for Payment across multiple Delivery Partners.
•    Maintaining validated cost data, accruals, provisions and monthly Estimates at Completion.
•    Presenting performance insights, cost variances and dashboards to Delivery Partners, Clients and the Project Controls Board.
•    Enhancing systems, processes and tools, including SAGE, ERP systems and cost / earned value platforms.


Qualifications


•    HNC level qualification (or equivalent) in cost engineering or quantity surveying
•    Ideally a bachelor's degree in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
•    ECITB QCF Level 5 Diploma in Cost Engineering (Cost Control)
•    Have an professional qualification and membership (eg APM/Acoste/RICS)  (or equivalent)


Experience


•    Advanced experience in cost control and forecasting, including variance analysis, cost risk, EACs and budget management.
•    Experience leading or supervising teams in cost, finance, estimating or project controls environments.
•    Strong systems capability, including ERP, SAGE, SAP, Oracle and advanced Excel.
•    Experience working in complex project environments or large scale infrastructure delivery.
•    Ability to communicate financial information clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders.

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Cost Reporting Lead
MEHA

 

Salary £82,400.00-106,100.00

Permanent


As a Cost Reporting Lead, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Being part of the MEH Alliance working on Hinkley Point C is a chance to be involved in a major project with national significance. You play a central role in shaping the financial performance of a major UK engineering and infrastructure programme. This is a high impact position where your insight, leadership, and analytical expertise directly support national defence, engineering excellence and large scale programme delivery. You lead a growing cost team, drive best practice reporting, elevate forecasting accuracy, and influence commercial outcomes across multi partner delivery environments.


Benefits


•    Generous holiday allowance
•    Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
•    Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
•    Employee share scheme
•    Employee shopping savings portal
•    Payment of Professional Fees
•    Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
•    Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
•    'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
•    Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.


Job Responsibilities


•    Leading and developing a team of 12 to deliver high quality cost reporting, forecasting and financial governance.
•    Producing accurate monthly Applications for Payment across multiple Delivery Partners.
•    Maintaining validated cost data, accruals, provisions and monthly Estimates at Completion.
•    Presenting performance insights, cost variances and dashboards to Delivery Partners, Clients and the Project Controls Board.
•    Enhancing systems, processes and tools, including SAGE, ERP systems and cost / earned value platforms.


Qualifications


•    HNC level qualification (or equivalent) in cost engineering or quantity surveying
•    Ideally a bachelor's degree in engineering / project / construction management or a related field
•    ECITB QCF Level 5 Diploma in Cost Engineering (Cost Control)
•    Have an professional qualification and membership (eg APM/Acoste/RICS)  (or equivalent)


Experience


•    Advanced experience in cost control and forecasting, including variance analysis, cost risk, EACs and budget management.
•    Experience leading or supervising teams in cost, finance, estimating or project controls environments.
•    Strong systems capability, including ERP, SAGE, SAP, Oracle and advanced Excel.
•    Experience working in complex project environments or large scale infrastructure delivery.
•    Ability to communicate financial information clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders.

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.

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