Junior / Senior / Lead Cost Manager

Job Description:

Independently manage cost management activities for assigned projects or major work packages, including cost planning, estimating, change management, invoice review, cost reporting, risk management, contract administration, and project close-out.

Act as a primary day-to-day cost management contact for project stakeholders, provide commercial recommendations, review the work of junior team members, and escalate significant commercial risks to project leadership.

Own the preparation and review of cost estimates, cost plans, budgets, and forecasts using project information, benchmarking data, and market intelligence.

Lead value engineering and lifecycle costing exercises for assigned projects or work packages.

Prepare, review, and manage cost control reports, forecasts, cash flow reporting, and other financial reporting.

Manage project change control, including change orders, commitments, invoices, forecasts, and cost impact assessments.

Review and assess change orders, invoices, quotations, and supporting documentation for commercial accuracy and contractual alignment.

Identify, assess, and actively manage commercial and cost risks within assigned projects.

Participate in and provide commercial input during pre-contract and post-contract discussions.

Represent the cost management function in client, project, contractor, and design team meetings.

Assess and communicate the cost impact of design changes, scope developments, procurement decisions, and project risks.

Perform and review measurement, pricing research, benchmarking, development appraisals, and commercial analyses.

Support commercial negotiations, contract administration, final accounts, and project close-out.

Review the work and deliverables of Junior Cost Managers and provide day-to-day coaching and guidance.

Ensure consistent use of project cost management templates, trackers, controls, and reporting processes.

Independently resolve routine commercial issues and escalate significant risks or decisions to the Lead Cost Manager or project leadership.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent professional qualification, in one of the following or a related discipline:

Quantity Surveying

Construction Management

Cost Management

Engineering

Data Analytics with a construction or cost focus

Minimum of 5 years of relevant cost management experience.

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office 365, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Demonstrated experience independently managing cost plans, forecasts, change control, invoice reviews, and commercial reporting.

Experience managing commercial risks and providing cost recommendations to project stakeholders.

Strong numerical, analytical, commercial, and documentation skills.

Ability to communicate effectively with clients, consultants, contractors, and project leadership.

Ability to supervise and review junior team members and independently manage assigned projects or major work packages.

KRIS INFOTECH PTE. LTD.

We partner with the IT industry providing comprehensive short and long-term technology & staffing solutions. We offer different options, to enable clients to optimize their human resources and at the same time reduce the risk and total cost of ownership.

Under our

Professional Services

, we serve our client's manpower needs by providing smooth talent pipeline with flexible partnering options.

We have been very successful in reducing ownership costs and recruitment turnaround time for our clients.

Our offerings are tailored around the identified domain, allowing us the ease to service our clients with domain experts.

We primary source talents from Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan

We have been supporting our clients regionally for business languages other than English viz. Mandarin, Thai, Japanese.

Our IT Professional Services include:

ü Agency Contract

ü Contingency Search

ü Retained Search

Our Value-Added Services include:

• Managed Payroll Services
• Re-batching & Vendor Consolidation
• Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

Our Focus: Technology Stack

ERP and CRM

Datawarehousing

Mobile and Web

Microsoft (.Net & Sharepoint)

Midrange (AS/400)

Infra (Networking, Sys Admin, DBAs, Storage, Telephony)

Subject Matter Expert, Project Managers and Business Analyst

Under our

Technology Services brand

– we specialize in IT Systems Integration encompassing the wide expanse of software, hardware and network technologies to enable businesses.

By combining best of breed solutions, cutting edge technologies and our proven processes, we aim to enhance your business productivity.

With time, we have invested in and collaborated with few specific Technology companies in the region to enhance our Technology Services.

We are very pleased bring to you the following FOUR service offerings:

ü

Big Data Consulting

ü

SAP Development Services

ü

Oracle E-Business Suite Services

ü

GRC Consulting