Senior Financial Analyst / Sr. Commercial Engineer

Job Summary

Jacobs is renowned for the excellence of our technical consulting and project delivery expertise in the Engineering and construction sector. With a variety of current projects and a strong pipeline we are seeking to recruit a Senior Financial Analyst (Senior Estimator) who is looking for a challenge working in multidisciplinary teams on various projects.

Your responsibilities include

• Responsible for the development and consolidation of estimates for assigned prospects/bids under the direction of Commercial Manager;
• Able to capture the key commercial aspects from a Client’s Request for Proposal for incorporation into the estimate;
• Able to understand, question, and incorporate Level of Effort from the technical teams into the project estimate;
• Establish and analyse estimates (i.e. unit rates, etc,) which are well understood, clearly built-up and defendable;
• Able to perform benchmarking (top/down estimates and comparison with past bids) in order to validate estimates.
• Clearly identifies and records assumptions included in the estimate;
• Analyse commercial impacts and performs sensitivity analysis on estimates. Recommends solutions;
• Advise management of risks that may affect project profit and costs, able to provide contingency cost for various risks and develop a risk register;
• Ability to present estimate outputs clearly to management.
• Provides defendable thorough estimates and openly accepts feedback.
• Contribute to the office safety culture. Delivery of all associated work with zero lost time accidents.
• Delivery of the cost estimates meeting the deadlines but maintaining quality work.

Here’s What You’ll Need

• 6-10 years experience in engineering and construction, most of which are in cost/estimating roles.
• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent in Construction Management, Engineering or related discipline from a renowned university;
• Must have experience in costing and estimating on major water, urban development/built environment, ports & marine, and/or transportation projects.
• Good knowledge of Excel and other Microsoft Office software.