Talascend is seeking a professional, skilled individual for our Cost Control Manager position located in Richmond, VA.
The Cost Control Manager leads project cost management activities and maintains oversight of budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasts, and trends. This role provides financial visibility to client and PMC leadership and ensures cost performance is continuously monitored against approved project objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Required Education & Experience
Preferred Qualifications
The Cost Control Manager leads project cost management activities and maintains oversight of budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasts, and trends. This role provides financial visibility to client and PMC leadership and ensures cost performance is continuously monitored against approved project objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead project cost management activities, including budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasting, and cost performance reporting.
- Monitor project performance against approved budgets, identifying trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop and maintain estimate-at-completion (EAC), cash flow, and funding forecasts.
- Support change management activities by evaluating cost impacts and maintaining budget alignment.
- Provide cost analysis, forecasting insights, and performance reporting to client and PMC leadership.
- Coordinate with project stakeholders to ensure accurate cost collection, reporting, and forecasting.
- Lead and develop the cost control team while promoting cost management best practices.
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of cost control, cost management, forecasting, or project controls experience supporting major capital projects.
- Demonstrated experience managing project budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasting, and cost reporting.
- Strong understanding of cost management, forecasting methodologies, project accounting interfaces, and performance analysis.
- Experience supporting large industrial, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, life sciences, energy, or infrastructure projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or other regulated manufacturing projects.
- Experience in an Owner's Representative, PMC, EPCM, or Integrated Project Management Team (IPMT) environment.
- Experience supporting large projects with multiple phases exceeding $500 million TIC.
- Proficiency with EcoSys, SAP, Oracle, Power BI, or similar project cost management and reporting systems.
- Professional certifications such as CCP®, EVP®, PMP®, or equivalent project controls credentials.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.