Today, Assystem is among the top three independent nuclear engineering firms worldwide. With over 60 years of experience in highly regulated sectors, the group supports public and industrial stakeholders in the execution of complex and strategic infrastructure projects, subject to high safety and security requirements.
Assystem mobilizes 8,000 experts in 13 countries and intervenes across the entire project lifecycle, in engineering, project management and digital solutions.
Job DescriptionKey Accountabilities
Key Responsibilities
- 📊 Partner with Project Managers to develop accurate and informed project forecasts across both the financial year and full project lifecycle.
- 💰 Consolidate accruals and provide financial reporting to the Client Finance Department on behalf of Project Managers.
- 📅 Collaborate closely with Project Planners to ensure forecasts are aligned with project schedules and delivery programmes.
- 📈 Monitor and track project costs and forecasts, ensuring ongoing affordability and budget compliance.
- 📑 Produce timely and accurate month-end cost reports, maintaining data across relevant financial systems.
- 🤝 Attend monthly supplier project meetings and undertake associated contract administration activities through CEMAR.
- 📝 Raise purchase and contract requisitions, and process invoice receipts within internal procurement systems when required.
- ✅ Review and validate invoices and valuations, providing guidance to Project Managers to resolve any financial queries.
- 🔄 Monitor expenditure against approved changes and actively participate in Change Control and Early Warning Notice (EWN) meetings.
🎯 Essential Skills & Experience
- 💬 Strong ability to communicate cost, financial, and project performance information clearly to Project Managers, stakeholders, and peers.
- 📊 Demonstrable experience in cost engineering, cost control, forecasting, and cost analysis.
- 🤝 Experience working within a Project Controls environment, with a clear understanding of the relationship between cost forecasting and project schedules.
- 🔍 Highly organised and detail-oriented, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- 📑 Excellent reporting, presentation, and data interpretation capabilities.
- 🎓 Educated to Diploma level or equivalent.
- 📈 Ideally possesses 2+ years' experience in cost management, project controls, or a related discipline.
⭐ Desirable Skills & Experience
- 🎓 Diploma-level qualification or higher.
- 🏅 Relevant professional membership (or actively working towards accreditation).
- 📊 Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including financial analysis and reporting.
- 📋 Experience using CEMAR for contract administration and commercial management.
- 📖 Knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts is highly desirable.
Additional Information
Why Join the Switchers Community?
🔹A dynamic career management policy to enable our employees to progress through our five business lines: operations, project, technical, sales and support functions
🔹Provide opportunities to work on exciting, global projects
🔹Access to an employee assistance programme with free mindfulness, health, wellbeing resources and a confidential support line available 24/7 via phone or text
🔹Discount vouchers for days out and restaurants, eye test and glasses vouchers, cycle to work scheme, free flu jabs
🔹Enhanced sick pay
Staff or Umbrella contractor role
SC Clearance required to start
Hybrid role with 3 days/week in Glasgow Client office
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We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.
Skills Required
- Communicate cost, financial, and project performance information clearly to stakeholders
- Experience in cost engineering, cost control, forecasting, and cost analysis
- Experience working within a Project Controls environment and aligning forecasts to schedules
- Highly organised, detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent reporting, presentation, and data interpretation capabilities
- Educated to Diploma level or equivalent
- Ideally 2+ years' experience in cost management, project controls, or a related discipline
- Relevant professional membership or actively working towards accreditation
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (financial analysis and reporting)
- Experience using CEMAR for contract administration and commercial management
- Knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts
- SC Clearance required to start
- Able to work hybrid with 3 days/week in Glasgow client office
What We Do
Assystem, one of the world's leading independent nuclear engineering companies, is committed to accelerating the energy transition. We see ourselves as an activist in the development of nuclear energy, convinced that it is an essential part of the fight against climate change. 7,000 switchers, spread in 12 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East are working every day to make the energy switch by accelerating the development of nuclear and renewable energies, power grids, clean hydrogen projects and low-carbon transport. We design and supervise major projects through our engineering activities and accelerate our customers' digital transformation. We also develop new solutions to build faster and improve the performance of complex infrastructures. 55 years of experience have made Assystem a key partner of the world's largest industrial groups: CEA, EDF, ENEC, Enedis, Engie, Framatome, ITER, K.A. CARE, Naval Group, NICDC, Orano, RATP, Rolls Royce, Royal Commission, Sellafield, SGP, SNCF... Assystem is ranked in the Top 3 companies in the nuclear energy sector.
