Infrastructure & Capital Projects, Senior Cost Manager, ANS

Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects is a company focused on developing and delivering infrastructure projects that are smarter, safer, and more sustainable. The Senior Cost Manager role involves leading budget management, cost planning, and estimating activities, managing change orders, cost reporting, and collaborating with project teams to ensure financial workflows and compliance. The position supports large-scale construction and infrastructure programs, particularly data center and mission-critical projects.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll lead budget management, cost planning, and estimating activities, ensuring budgets are proactively managed, compliant with client standards, and aligned with approved cost commitment schedules
• You’ll review, validate, and coordinate general contractor and developer estimates, supporting presentations and approvals in line with internal processes and industry best practices
• You’ll manage end‑to‑end change management, including logging, reviewing, categorizing, forecasting, and reporting all change orders for cost and schedule impact
• You’ll lead project cost reporting, cash flow forecasting, accruals, variance analysis, and cost‑at‑completion trending, ensuring systems and regional reports are kept current
• You’ll oversee payment applications and invoice management, reviewing pay applications, invoices, GMP audits, and billing milestones for contract compliance and accuracy
• You’ll track and manage project risks and opportunities related to cost and schedule, ensuring forecasted costs and schedules reflect identified risks
• You’ll collaborate with project teams, developers, contractors, vendors, and commercial operations to support funding requests, purchase orders, and financial workflows
• You’ll manage cash flow and accrual processes, including earned value tracking, monthly forecasting, and variance analysis across all active purchase orders
• You’ll ensure cost data, change orders, and forecasts are accurately uploaded and maintained in client cost management and reporting systems
• You’ll support full project financial closeout by validating as‑built cost documentation, coordinating PO closures, managing retention releases, and returning unused funds

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in construction management, Engineering, Finance, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
• Minimum of 8 years of project cost controls, project controls, or commercial management for large‑scale construction or infrastructure programs
• Minimum of 3 years of experience supporting data center, mission-critical, or hyperscale infrastructure projects
• Proficiency with cost management and reporting systems, including enterprise tools used for budgeting, forecasting, change orders, cash flow, and accrual tracking
• Hands‑on experience working with contractors, developers, and owner teams on payment applications, invoices, GMP audits, and contract compliance
• Experience working on hyperscale data center programs
• Prior exposure to owner‑side or program‑level cost reporting and governance
• Background collaborating with cross‑regional teams and centralized project controls groups
• Experience driving cost trending, forecasting best practices, and standardized reporting
• Familiarity with financial closeout processes and retention release management
• Ability to provide cost and schedule decision support to senior stakeholders
• PMI-SP, PSP, or PMP certification preferred
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and reporting tools