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Senior Cost Estimator
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Business Development

Full time

Email 24Nov2022

We are looking for a reliable and numerically astute Senior Cost Estimator to assist senior management in making critical business decisions by analyzing and presenting key financial data and enable us to bid competitively. You will be responsible for the development, preparation, and consolidation of detailed, comprehensive, and precise costs of potential projects using financial modeling techniques to enable the bid team to submit competitive bids/ proposals.. An excellent management accountant must have an exceptional mathematical mind combined with a strong business orientation. The goal is to contribute to the decision-making process of management that will ensure business growth and long-term success.

Responsibilities
Review tender documents and in conjunction with bid teams/ leads, subsequently, formulate a comprehensive costing sheet highlighting all the projected costs of potential projects in order to identify the actual costings.
Liaise with various departments to ensure the costing includes entire elements such as equipment, materials, labour, food and energy consumptions, personal wastage, salary, insurance, tax & legislative implications, and all relevant project costs in order to project complete, precise, and detailed costings of projects.
Validate all costings with relevant departments prior to submission to further ensure the accuracy of projected costings.
Lead meetings and discussions about the numbers and analysis performed.
Upon project award, filter out costings spreadsheet to reflect agreed on project requirements and send to Operations and Finance departments enabling them to prepare and source accordingly as per the project cost structure.
Conduct a thorough financial analysis with explanations to highlight expenditures, cash flows, break-even, profitability, etc. to enable informed decisions by the relevant project management team.
Consolidate all monthly costing reports received by business units, and analyze information to identify actual costings vs. projected costings.
Conduct in-house training for MS Excel intermediate and advanced level if needed.
Collaborating with other teams, conducting site visits if necessary, and conducting relevant research to ensure all cost drivers are captured into cost models to deliver competitive and comprehensive bid/ tender pricing.
Help management make important decisions based on costs and benefits (e.g. bid or no bid decisions; purchase or lease decisions, etc.)
Requirements
To be considered for the role, you must be/ have:

Minimum of 15 years experience in cost estimating for bids/ tenders
Bachelor’s degree in Business/ Accounting or Financial Management
CMA or ACCA certified
MS Office including Advanced Level MS Excel
Oracle knowledge an advantage
Government/ Military Contract experience advantageous
Ability to communicate well across all levels in the organization
Excellent English communication skills
Ability to multi-task, organize, and prioritize multiple ongoing projects.
Strong analytical and numeracy skills.
Excellent presentation skills
Benefits
The selected candidate will enjoy:

competitive pay and benefits
dynamic, fast-paced work environment
learning and development opportunities
employee welnness and engagement programs