Commercial Cost Plus Specialist

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**Commercial Cost Plus Specialist**

**Doha, Qatar**

Parsons is looking for a **Commercial Cost Plus Specialist** to join our team.

**What You'll Be Doing**:
**Assist in developing cost-plus cost control forms**

**Manage the contract procedure at the site and ensure compliance of the contracting parties for the administration procedure for a cost-plus contract**

**Cost Auditing & Verification**

- Reviewing contractor invoices, including labor, materials, equipment, and Indirect staff/machinery cost.

- Verifying that costs align with contract provisions, industry benchmarks, and approved rates.

- Assist and direct the Contractor to prepare a detailed project budget, including Labour, material, subcontractor, and Overhead.

- Checking compliance with agreed-upon cost-plus formulas (e.g., fixed fee).

- Verify the subcontractors and vendors' costs compared with recent market rates

- Identifying any discrepancies, overstatements, or non-allowable costs.

- Track project expenditures periodically

- Collaborate with other PMC staff to provide a cost report on a bimonthly basis or as required by the Engineer

- Flag any cost overruns and any inefficient expenditures not related to the construction scope

- Conduct regular (bimonthly or quarter) audits of the contractor's financial records or as instructed by the Engineer

- Provide checklists and clear criteria for the documents required by the Contractor for Auditing purposes

- Verify all cost impact assessments for Task Orders and Site instructions initiated by the Authority by checking and validating the actual expenditure requests

- Provide a detailed audit checklist

- Provide predefined templates for contractor invoices, including the most practical invoicing structure and its substantiations.

**Reporting & Documentation**

- Preparing periodic audit reports highlighting verified costs, discrepancies, and recommendations.

- Maintaining a structured record of audited expenses for transparency and dispute resolution.

- Providing real-time feedback to project stakeholders on cost performance.

- Procurement guidelines for subcontractors

- Final Cost Reconciliation report Incl. (Final Cost Incurred, Variance Analysis, Audit results through the course of the project period)

- Contractor expenditures assessment reports and assessment of the contractor's performance in directing the project expenditures

- Assist the main consultant to provide Assessment reports for the Contractor's effectiveness in utilizing the resources.

**Process Improvement & Risk Mitigation**

- Suggesting best practices to improve cost tracking and control in cost-plus contracts.

- Identifying financial risks and recommending corrective actions.

**Attend meetings with the Authority**

- The sub-consultant shall make his staff available to attend any meeting requested by the Authority or the Contractor. The sub-consultant staff are not expected to interfere in the day-by-day activities, nor interface with the site activities, but his resources/top management will be requested to attend meetings related to cost-plus administration.

**What Required Skills You'll Bring**:

- **Minimum 15+ years of experience and a minimum of 10 years of Gulf experience.**

- **Minimum 5 years of experience on Cost Plus construction projects.**

- **Experience working for a Design/Supervision Consultant..**

- Must demonstrate ability and involvement in managing cost-plus mega projects in the past 5 years.

- Preferably Chartered and have MMUP registration.

- Ability to react to adhoc/ urgent tasks to requested timeframes.

- Must have fluency in English (written and verbal).

- Previous experience on Ashghal Projects is preferred but not essential.

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