Arcadis
Assistant Cost Assurance Consultant
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Arcadis
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description
At Arcadis, we're committed to improving quality of life through sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions. As part of our growing Cost and Commercial Assurance team, as an Assistant Cost Assurance Consultant you'll help clients gain greater confidence in project expenditure, commercial governance, and contract compliance across major infrastructure and construction programmes.
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious graduate or early-career professional looking to develop a career in cost consultancy, commercial assurance, quantity surveying, or construction finance within a supportive and collaborative environment.
Role accountabilities
Working alongside experienced Cost Assurance Consultants, you'll support the review and analysis of cost information, helping clients understand whether contractual and commercial requirements are being met.
You will:
- Analyse contractor cost data against contractual and commercial principles
- Support cost assurance reviews and audits across a range of projects and sectors
- Assist with cost sampling, payroll reviews, and employment contract audits
- Gather and assess financial and project documentation from contractors and stakeholders
- Prepare reports, findings, and supporting working papers
- Build positive relationships with project teams, contractors, and client stakeholders
- Travel nationally to support project reviews and stakeholder engagement where required
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Qualifications & Experience
We're interested in people who are naturally curious, analytical, and detail-oriented, with the ability to turn complex information into meaningful insights.
You'll ideally have:
- A degree in Quantity Surveying, Accountancy, Construction Management, or a related discipline
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel capability and confidence working with data
- An interest in commercial, contractual, and financial analysis
- Excellent organisation and communication skills
- The ability to work independently while thriving in a collaborative team environment
- A proactive mindset and a focus on delivering quality outcomes
Experience of working with cost management or ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, COINS, or ICON would be advantageous but is not essential.
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Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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