Job Description:

Cost Manager

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000
Location: Exeter / Cornwall

Package: Car Allowance or EV Company Vehicle | Pension | Healthcare | 26 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays | Hybrid Working

Major Infrastructure Projects | South West Water AMP8

A leading UK civil engineering contractor is looking to appoint a Cost Manager to support its long-term delivery of infrastructure projects across the South West Water AMP8 framework.
This is a key role within the commercial team, ensuring project costs are accurately recorded, allocated and managed across a busy programme of civil engineering and utilities projects.

The Role

You'll oversee the monthly allocation and reconciliation of project expenditure, ensuring costs are recorded against the correct projects and cost codes using the company's IFS financial management system.

Working closely with project managers, site supervisors, commercial and finance teams, your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing and reconciling monthly project costs.
• Ensuring labour, plant, materials and subcontractor expenditure is correctly allocated.
• Investigating discrepancies and resolving cost coding queries.
• Maintaining accurate financial records within IFS.
• Ensuring costs are appropriately allocated and recoverable in accordance with NEC contract provisions.
• Supporting accurate monthly financial reporting and cost control.

What We're Looking For

We're open to candidates from accounts, purchase ledger, construction finance, cost control or quantity surveying backgrounds.
You'll need strong numerical skills, excellent attention to detail and the confidence to work with operational teams to ensure costs are recorded correctly.
Experience with construction projects, NEC contracts or IFS would be advantageous, but isn't essential.
This could particularly suit a finance professional looking to move into construction cost management, or a Quantity Surveyor who enjoys the financial side of projects but would prefer a predominantly internal role.

What's In It For You?

• £40,000 - £50,000 salary
• Car allowance or EV company vehicle
• Strong pension and healthcare package
• 26 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working
• Long-term career opportunities
• A secure pipeline of major infrastructure projects

Interested? If you're organised, commercially aware and enjoy working with financial information, we'd be interested in hearing from you.