Lead Cost Engineer

About the role

Jasara Program Management Company, a joint venture supporting Saudi Vision 2030, seeks a Lead Cost Engineer to drive portfolio‑wide cost performance across major infrastructure programs. You will bring structure, rigor, and insight to complex financial environments, enabling informed decisions for project and senior leadership teams.

Key responsibilities

• Own portfolio‑wide cost reporting and monthly cost control cycles.
• Manage budgets, allocations, transfers, and cost coding across contracts.
• Develop detailed forecasts, forecast‑at‑completion positions, and close‑out projections.
• Oversee monthly accrual validation, reconciliation, aging reviews, and clearing of unsupported items.
• Track commitments, actuals, liabilities, settlements, and exposure through contract closure.
• Prepare cash‑flow forecasts and funding requirements for termination, demobilisation, preservation, settlement, and close‑out.
• Reconcile SAP, Oracle Unifier, commercial records, and project reporting data.
• Lead cost inputs for weekly and monthly reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Provide cost substantiation for claims, disputes, settlements, and final account reviews.
• Establish reporting templates, controls, and audit trails, and explain movements across budgets, commitments, accruals, actuals, cash flow, and forecasts.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Project Management, Business, Finance or a related discipline.
• 20+ years of experience in project controls and cost management, including 10+ years on major projects in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.
• Proven experience managing cost control on mega‑projects or mixed‑use programs with multi‑billion SAR portfolios.
• Extensive experience with budgets, accruals, forecasts, commitments, cash flow, funding, and cost reconciliation.

Required skills

• Oracle Unifier
• Cost Reconciliation
• Cost Control
• Dashboard Tools
• SAP
• Excel