Rail: Cost Analyst: London

Crossrail require a Cost Analyst for at least until the end of March 2019.

Role Brief:

• Work with the Project teams to analyse and report on the cost status of the Programme.
• Co-ordinate the production and retention of Programme cost records, including cost analysis for accounting and reporting purposes, and unit cost records.
• Establish and agree the cost information to be retained to inform future estimates for comparable projects, including quantities and unit cost data.
• Specify and manage the retention of cost and quantity records, ensuring that the specified information is obtained by Project teams from contractors.
• Analyse and explain historic cost changes; prepare reports on cost change values with explanations of the key cost drivers.
• Establishing current cost records in Projects across the Programme, in different systems and formats.
• Establishing and agreeing the cost data and "cost book" to be produced by Crossrail for future use.
• Drilling down from cost systems to more granular analysis following the WBS.

Skills & Experience required:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent, preferably in Engineering or Construction Management or Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience.
• Experience of cost reporting and analysis, Quantity surveying and unit cost estimating
• Advanced experience of major project cost control and cost management systems
• An advanced level of MS Excel skills
• Experience of forecasting, scheduling techniques and risk analysis
• Experience in technical and practical application of estimating, pricing and costing on major infrastructure projects.
• Skilled in oral and written communication, with experience of presenting cost engineering information to management and an ability to make complex information easy to understand