Commercial Manager (Cost & Forecasting) (Sizewell C)

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Commercial Manager (Cost & Forecasting) (Sizewell C)
Wilson James
Sizewell C

Job Responsibilities 

• Own and maintain the programme budget, cost baseline, and integrated financial forecast.
• Maintain robust Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion positions.
• Translate operational resource plans, material volumes, and activity forecasts into financial projections.
• Monitor actual expenditure against budget and forecast and explain material variances.
• Maintain visibility of purchase orders, subcontract commitments, accruals, and financial liabilities.
• Lead the cost-control element of month end and maintain accurate cost-to-complete projections.
• Track the financial impact of approved, anticipated and emerging change, including NEC3 Compensation Events.
• Maintain clear visibility of revenue, cost, margin, risks, and opportunities.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, Project Controls, Operations and the Client Commercial Team.

Other duties and responsibilities
• Work in accordance with:
o Wilson James policies, site procedures and training provided
o Wilson James core values:
 We are fair and honest in all our activities;
 We treat each other with dignity and respect;
 We are responsible for all our actions and accountable for their consequences;
 We have an environment that enables and supports effective communication;
 We will continuously develop safe systems of work to ensure no one is placed at risk in our workplaces.
o Customer policies
• Carry out any other reasonable request as required by your Line Manager or the Customer

Qualifications 

Essential
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at working and management levels.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial-modelling capability.
• CITB HS&E Managers and Professionals certificate (MAPS), or project-accepted equivalent.
• Ability to satisfy all Sizewell C security, vetting and site access requirements.
• Relevant commercial, cost-management, quantity-surveying or finance qualification, or equivalent experience.

Desirable
• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline.
• RICS, AAT, CIMA, ACCA or another relevant professional qualification.
o A working knowledge of:
o Major infrastructure, construction or nuclear programme environments
o NEC contract environments and associated governance
o Logistics and supply-chain commercial models
o Project controls, financial reporting and cost-management systems

Experience 

• Strong project cost management, commercial controls or financial forecasting experience.
• Experience within logistics, construction, infrastructure or a comparable major programme.
• Advanced budgeting, forecasting and cost-to-complete capability.
• Demonstrable experience maintaining Estimate to Complete and Estimate at Completion positions.
• Strong understanding of accruals, commitments, month-end reporting and financial reconciliation.
• Experience maintaining revenue, cost, margin and change visibility across a complex contract.
• Excellent numerical and analytical capability with strong Excel and financial-modelling skills.
• Ability to interrogate complex data, explain variance and identify forward financial risk.
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts, preferably NEC3, is desirable.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to operational, commercial and client 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.