Project Controls Cost Improvement Lead

Cooper Moss Rutland

🌟 Position: Risk Manager 📍 Location: London (with travel as required) 💼 Type: Full-time 📅 Start Date: ASAP 💰 Salary: Competitive (dependent on experience) At Cooper Moss Rutland (CMR), we are a leading construction consultancy delivering project controls, project management and commercial services across some of the UK's most complex and high-profile programmes. We are looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our growing Project Controls team and help our clients successfully deliver major projects and programmes. This is an excellent opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of projects, supporting clients from business case and planning through to delivery and programme completion. You'll play an important role in delivering effective risk management, supporting project teams with informed decision-making, and helping improve project outcomes through best practice risk management. ABOUT COOPER MOSS RUTLAND Cooper Moss Rutland is a specialist construction consultancy providing expert project controls, commercial management, planning, scheduling, risk management and PMO services across a range of sectors including: * Infrastructure * Rail * Highways * Aviation * Defence * Nuclear * Energy * Water and Utilities * Data Centres Our collaborative approach, technical expertise and commitment to delivering value enable us to support clients through every stage of the project lifecycle. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? * Opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting and complex projects and programmes. * Exposure to a broad range of sectors and delivery environments. * Career development within a growing consultancy that values innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement. * Opportunities to develop your technical expertise and work alongside experienced project controls professionals. * A supportive, flexible and collaborative working environment. YOU'LL * Support the development and implementation of effective risk management processes across projects and programmes. * Facilitate qualitative risk workshops with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams. * Produce, maintain and analyse project and programme risk registers. * Deliver or support quantitative risk analysis (cost and schedule) where required. * Prepare clear and insightful risk reports, dashboards and performance metrics. * Identify emerging risks, trends and opportunities, providing practical recommendations to support successful project delivery. * Work closely with planning, cost management, PMO and commercial teams as part of an integrated project controls environment. * Support project governance by ensuring risk management activities align with client requirements, industry standards and best practice. * Build strong working relationships with clients and project teams to promote effective risk management throughout the project lifecycle. * Contribute to the continuous improvement of CMR's Risk Management capability, tools and processes. WE'RE LOOKING FOR ESSENTIAL * Demonstrable experience delivering risk management within projects or programmes. * Good knowledge of qualitative and quantitative risk management techniques. * Experience facilitating risk workshops with project stakeholders. * Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills. * Ability to analyse risk information and communicate findings clearly. * Experience working within project controls or programme management environments. * Understanding of recognised risk management methodologies and industry best practice. DESIRABLE * Experience working within consultancy, client-side and/or contractor organisations. * Experience across one or more sectors including infrastructure, rail, highways, defence, nuclear, energy, aviation, water, buildings, healthcare, education or utilities. * Knowledge of integrated project controls, planning and cost management. * Professional qualifications in Risk Management, Project Management or Project Controls (e.g. APM, IRM, PMI, MoR or similar). * Experience using quantitative risk analysis software such as Safran Risk, Primavera Risk Analysis, @Risk or similar tools. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We're looking for someone who is collaborative, commercially aware and passionate about helping clients successfully deliver projects. You'll be proactive, analytical and confident engaging with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery. As a Risk Manager, you'll demonstrate professionalism, integrity and a commitment to delivering high-quality risk management services while contributing to the continued success of Cooper Moss Rutland. REQUIREMENTS * Full right to work in the UK. * Willingness to travel to client sites across the UK as required. * Flexibility to work in a hybrid environment. APPLY If you're looking to develop your career with a growing consultancy delivering some of the UK's most exciting projects, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV along with a short summary outlining your relevant experience and interest in joining Cooper Moss Rutland.

Financial Times

ABOUT US The Financial Times ranks among the top news organisations worldwide. It is known for its authority, integrity, and accuracy. Its mission is to provide quality information and services around the globe. At the FT, curiosity flourishes and ambitious thinking is valued. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, produce work that matters and provide impartial journalism in a polarised world. In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing. Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. Without a set route, you’ll uncover new skills and build a career that can lead you anywhere. Develop a newsworthy career at the FT. OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION We believe in the importance of diverse viewpoints and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be authentic and perform to their full potential. We are dedicated to eliminating obstacles for everyone, with particular attention to challenges encountered by underrepresented groups. THE ROLE We are seeking a Technology Supplier & Contract Manager to assume responsibility for the operational management, governance, and commercial oversight of our key technology suppliers. Reporting to the Project Portfolio Management Director within our Product & Technology organisation, you will make sure technology partners consistently meet contractual duties, service benchmarks, and business aims. You will lead the operational management of strategic suppliers once contracts are awarded, promoting supplier performance, governance, and value maximisation during the supplier lifecycle. You will collaborate extensively with Product & Technology, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and supplier delivery teams. The goal is to develop supplier relationships, boost commercial outcomes, and uphold governance across software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, and managed service providers. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Manage the day-to-day operations of strategic technology vendors and service providers. * Develop and maintain supplier governance frameworks, performance scorecards and regular service review cadences. * Build strong supplier relationships while holding vendors accountable for contractual commitments, targets and SLAs. * Drive continuous improvement through performance reviews, service improvement plans and effective blocking issue management. * Identify and mitigate supplier risks relating to operational delivery, security, compliance and financial performance. * Own the operational lifecycle of technology contracts, including onboarding, renewals, extensions, service reviews and supplier exits. * Maintain visibility of contract renewal dates, commercial obligations and termination windows. * Partner with Procurement and Legal to support contract renewals, renegotiations and new supplier engagements. * Find opportunities to optimise supplier spend, licensing models and commercial value across technology services. * Support budgeting, forecasting and financial governance for third-party technology expenditure. * Produce reporting on supplier performance, contract status, risks, renewals and financial exposure. * Establish governance forums with internal collaborators and strategic suppliers. * Assist with audit, regulatory, and third-party risk management activities. * Strengthen supplier management procedures, controls, reporting, and governance standards within Product & Technology. * Champion collaborative working, delivery excellence and continuous improvement. REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE * Proven experience managing IT suppliers, vendor relationships, technology contracts or technology service management within a complex organisation. * Strong understanding of supplier relationship management (SRM) principles and post-contract supplier governance. * Experience working across enterprise technology environments, including SaaS, cloud platforms, infrastructure, software licensing, managed services and support agreements. * Strong knowledge of contract governance, SLAs, benchmarks, service credits, supplier performance frameworks and operational governance. * Ability to interpret contractual obligations and translate them into effective supplier management practices. * Commercially aware, with experience directing supplier cost management, contract renewals, and value improvement projects. * Excellent ability to manage collaborators, with the capability to build trusted relationships across Product & Technology, Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security and business teams. * Strong communication, influencing and negotiation skills, with confidence challenging suppliers constructively. * Excellent analytical and organisational skills, including experience producing governance reports, managing risks and maintaining contract documentation. * Experience identifying and mitigating supplier-related operational, financial, compliance and service risks. * Ability to manage multiple suppliers, competing priorities and complex service environments. * Experience developing governance forums and advancing supplier performance by means of formal review processes. DESIRABLE * Experience working within an organisation centered around digital products or services. * Knowledge of IT procurement and contract governance processes. * Experience with third-party risk oversight and technology governance frameworks. * Experience supporting commercial assessments and arguments for technology investments. * Knowledge of software licensing frameworks and vendor commercial approaches. What's in it for You? Our benefits differ depending on location, but we are dedicated to offering top-tier perks at every office. These include generous annual leave, medical coverage, inclusive parental leave packages, discounted gym memberships, and chances to contribute to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here: https://aboutus.ft.com/careers/benefits. We follow a 50% hybrid working model, with employees onsite two to three days per week. This approach builds trust and supports remote adaptability. It also encourages in-person camaraderie and peer learning. We are open to flexible working pattern requests for all roles when possible. ACCESSIBILITY We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please inform us if you need any reasonable adjustments or personalization during the application process or to assist you in attending an interview. If you wish to talk about your needs or have any inquiries, email talent@ft.com and someone from our team will gladly assist you. FURTHER INFORMATION At the FT, we encourage innovation and technology adoption. We understand that candidates might bring AI tools into their application process. Although using AI to help with your application is acceptable, ensuring that all submitted details are authentic and accurately show your skills, experience, and qualifications is crucial. Candidates should be aware that the use of AI during the application process might be observed to guarantee a fair and transparent hiring experience for everyone. Please watch out for fake job ads and offers pretending to be from the Financial Times. Genuine openings will ask you to apply via the official Financial Times careers website. The FT will never request financial details, payments, or referrals to outside parties during recruitment. If you doubt a posting’s authenticity or suspect fraud, email talent@ft.com. Interested in the FT but haven't found the right position yet? Join our Talent Community to get exclusive updates, featured jobs, and insights into working at the FT.

NextEnergy Group

THE ROLE WiseEnergy is a trusted and established solar asset manager, offering all the services clients require to manage and optimise large-scale solar plants, from development and construction through to long-term operational asset management. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, passionate finance professional to support the delivery of finance asset management services to one of our most important clients in London. We are looking for someone who genuinely cares about the people they work with, naturally seeks to collaborate and enjoys the buzz of good camaraderie. Although, as with all finance roles, you will need to have exceptional attention to detail. This role is directly client-facing and requires someone with confidence to report the portfolio's performance and to handle client queries as they arise. In other words, you will be a key member of the team who can build and maintain good working relationships across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. The successful candidate will be a highly commercial and influential advisor to the clients, playing a pivotal role in ensuring timely reporting and analysis that drives future strategic decision making and value creation. The candidate will most likely have experience within previous FP&A roles and demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail and proficiency in financial modelling, combined with the ability to manage a team to support you in delivering an accurate and timely service. There is an expectation of consistency and accuracy of outputs, as well as delivering and maintaining a high degree of customer service (internal stakeholders). In view of this, you will be expected to appropriately flag issues and support their resolution through to the end and proactively drive continuous improvement. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The following responsibilities are applicable to the circa 100 SPVs and HoldCo's which are owned by our listed client. Management Reporting * Management of the monthly and quarterly portfolio reporting outputs, consisting of the Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and supporting reconciliations * Review of key reporting outputs to the internal client ensuring a high level of governance and accurate reporting * Present and deliver comprehensive portfolio financial results to the internal client, inclusive of regular management reporting and portfolio information included within the Fund's Annual and Interim reports * Responsible for the accounting of complex accounting entries, such as restructuring, acquisition, disposal and joint venture transactions * Close collaboration with other departments on monthly portfolio performance to ensure alignment of cross-departmental information presented Budgeting and Cost Management * Lead the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting processes, including collaborating with other departments that contribute to the budgeted numbers * Ensure appropriate levels of review and governance are in place * Present and deliver the quarterly fund model to operating budget reconciliation to the internal client, and the budget presentation meeting to stakeholders * Collaborate with Treasury and Debt Management departments to ensure alignment to short-term Cash Model and longer-term Lender Models * Highlight and investigate trends and variances in performance, and flag issues to different departments and stakeholders where financial trends are impacting cash or expected to exceed budgeted projections Ad-hoc Requests * Performing additional analyses and reconciliations required following presentation of regular portfolio results * Provision of financial information required for due diligence processes * Performing financial modelling and scenario analysis to support strategic initiatives * Collaborate with other departments to provide financial support and guidance and highlighting the financial considerations and implications for decision-making. * Lead on coordinating and/or project managing ad-hoc processes such as onboarding and offboarding in relation to acquisitions and disposals. Process Improvements * Define and establish the risk matrix on all reporting outputs, ensuring adequate controls are in place to mitigate the risk of material errors * Identify and implement improvements to processes to increase efficiency and accuracy of financial planning and analysis, and reporting tasks and client outputs * Continuous improvement and enhancement to the efficiency and accuracy of the portfolio budget model and reporting outputs Report Management and Training * Managing and mentoring the Reporting Team. SKILLS & COMPETENCIES   To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate: * Time management & prioritization skills - things can get a little hectic, so the ability to effectively manage yourself and your workload is critical * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (in English and/or other European languages) - you must be able to organize your thoughts in a way that others find clear and compelling. You will be expected to together well-written, grammatically correct emails and other communications. When communicating verbally – whether over the phone, on video calls, in person or in meetings – you will need to be articulate, warm and engaging * Flexibility - being an effective team player means being flexible in your approach and open to getting involved with new things, even if they are not spelled out in your job description * Intellectual Curiosity – Finance is a broad and nuanced field and we are looking for someone who is truly interested in our profession and has the intellectual curiosity to delve deep into topics and bring fresh ideas into the team * IT Literacy - you need to be comfortable with IT systems and working with data (you should have at least intermediate-level excel) * Delivery focus – it may sound obvious, but the ability to proactively churn through work at pace and deliver quality outputs really matters! * Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills * Passion for our mission ‘to generate a more sustainable future by leading the transition to clean energy * Our values: be a leader, build trust, be responsible, be innovative and ‘bring your alpha’. EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS  * Qualified accountant (essential) * 5+ years' experience in a similar role (essential) * Financial modelling experience (essential) * Excellent stakeholder management skills (essential) * Proven track record of process improvement (essential) * Experience of implementing automation tools / systems (desirable) * Renewable energy experience (desirable) * Fluent, advanced business level English (essential) * The right to work in the UK. WHAT WE OFFER (UK)    * A busy role in a supportive team, with plenty of opportunities to learn * International scope – we operate in over 8 countries * Hybrid working – we will need you in the central London (Mayfair) office at least twice a week, but you will normally be able to work remotely for the remainder of the week * 30 days’ holiday per year (3 of which are taken during the festive shutdown in December) * Private pension * BUPA Healthcare for you and qualifying dependents * Cycle to work and electric vehicle leasing schemes * Annual discretionary bonus.   HOW TO APPLY If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow the link to apply or send your application to careers@nextenergygroup.com. If you have been shortlisted for the next stage, we will be in contact within 14 days.    By selecting “Apply” or sending us your CV, you indicate you have read and acknowledged NextEnergy Group’s Candidate Privacy Notice. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION   Our approach to diversity and inclusion is a natural extension of our values. Our entrepreneurial culture inspires us to try new things, be open to different viewpoints and be bold. Our Group is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of connectedness that values difference and gives space for individual expression. The collective sum of our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent and hard work form the bedrock of who we are and who we aspire to be. We are committed to equal employment and advancement opportunity irrespective of race, color, ancestry, social background, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability and gender identity. ABOUT US NextEnergy Group was founded in 2007 to become a leading market participant in the international solar sector.  Since its inception, it has been active in the development, construction, and ownership of solar assets across multiple jurisdictions.  NextEnergy Group operates via its three business units: NextEnergy Capital (Investment Management), WiseEnergy (Operating Asset Management), and Starlight (Asset Development). NextEnergy Capital manages the Group's investment activities and has invested in over 520 solar plants, exceeding 2GW in capacity across its institutional funds. * NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF): Listed on the London Stock Exchange, NESF manages 102 solar and energy storage assets in the UK and Italy, with a total installed capacity of 983MW and a gross asset value of £1,014m. * NextPower II (NPII): A private fund of 105 solar plants (149MW) focused on Italy, successfully divested in January 2022, delivering net IRRs exceeding its 10-12% target. * NextPower III ESG (NPIII ESG): A private fund targeting solar infrastructure in OECD countries (e.g., US, Spain, Italy), with $896m raised, exceeding its $750m target. * NextPower UK ESG (NPUK ESG): A private fund dedicated to new-build solar plants in the UK, with ~£600m raised. * NextPower V ESG (NPV ESG): A private OECD solar fund investing in solar and adjacent technologies like battery storage. To date, it has raised $745m, targeting $1.5bn ($2bn ceiling). WiseEnergy® is NextEnergy Group’s operating asset manager.  WiseEnergy is a leading specialist operating asset manager in the solar sector.  Since its founding, WiseEnergy has provided solar asset management, monitoring, technical due diligence and under construction services to over 1,500 utility-scale solar power plants with an installed total capacity in excess of 3.4 GW.  WiseEnergy clients comprise leading banks and equity financiers in the energy and infrastructure sector.  Starlight is NextEnergy Group’s development company that is active in the development phase of solar projects.  It has developed over 100 utility-scale projects internationally and continues to progress a large pipeline of c.10GW of both green and brownfield project developments across global geographies. NextSTEP is the venture capital fund of NextEnergy Group, dedicated to investing in innovative startups in the field of environmental sustainability. The fund primarily focuses on investments in Italy and the United Kingdom but also extends its reach to the rest of Europe and the United States, targeting startups in the pre-seed and seed stages. NextSTEP pays particular attention to emerging entities from incubators, startup accelerators, universities, and research centers, supporting projects that address global challenges in crucial areas such as Climate Change, Energy Transition, CO2 Capture and Sequestration, Circular Economy, Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Mobility, Sustainable Fashion, Waste Management, Water and much more. NextEnergy Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 2016 by the NextEnergy Group that operates internationally and whose mission is to proactively participate in the global effort to reduce carbon emissions by providing clean energy sources in regions where they are not yet available and thereby contributing to poverty reduction. As the main sponsor of this foundation, the NextEnergy Group donates at least 5% of its consolidated net profits each year. The NextEnergy Foundation has no overhead costs and therefore 100% of the funds raised go to donations for the various projects. Since 2016, in 8 years of operation the foundation has donated more than £1.2 million, supporting over 30 projects in 27 different countries around the world.