Graduate Trainee Controls

Location

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Project description

The project is a major infrastructure programme for a mixed-use development aiming to be a global landmark, recognized for its unique vision and position as an authentic destination in Riyadh. The community will be a distinct, self-sustaining hub for Riyadh, offering several iconic assets. KBR will provide PMO services, enterprise-level governance, assurance, integration, and performance oversight across all projects and programmes.

The role

Reporting to the senior commercial manager lead, the graduate trainee controls role is responsible for coordinating with PMCs on executive commercial reporting and control, recommending the most appropriate commercial strategy, managing pre- and post-contract activities, and providing accurate status reports to support timely decisions and prevent schedule slippage and cost overruns. The role also involves producing close-out reports for each project.

Main responsibilities

• Assist in developing, implementing, and governing standard cost and commercial reporting formats for use by the PMCs.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a database of all insurance policies, guarantees, and warranties.
• Coordinate with PMCs to compile and validate analytical commercial data.
• Manage executive risk reporting.
• Assist in developing the project cost report (PCR), commercial executive report, and cash flows within Unifier, and integrate them with other platforms to ensure data consistency.
• Review existing procurement guidelines for bills of quantities (BoQs) and tender documents to develop standards for the PMCs.
• Assist in preparing programme-wide consolidated cost reports in line with agreed reporting requirements, including those of DevCo, BOD, Excom, Treasury, PIF, and HRH.
• Support the collation of annual programme-wide budgets and prepare monthly cash flow reports for submission to the client for review and approval.
• Assist in preparing and developing cost benchmark reports, including the tender price index, professional fees benchmark, construction cost benchmarks for above-ground assets and infrastructure, efficiency benchmarks (including GFA/BUA and floor/ceiling), KSA key input market price analysis (monthly), and KSA market insight (quarterly).
• Assist in preparing and issuing cost benchmarking templates, elemental cost plan formats, and required information to the PMCs.
• Participate in developing and implementing programme change control procedures.
• Assist in preparing and issuing programme-wide project cash flow reports.
• Prepare project cost reports, including trend analysis and change reporting.
• Review cost risks and opportunities.
• Ensure seamless reporting between the cost breakdown structure and work breakdown structure, linking cost and schedule, including earned value.
• Prepare updates for changes to the programme baseline budget.
• Support the business plan exercise.
• Provide portfolio-wide risk management services to support effective governance, decision-making, and assurance for the respective district or master plan, in alignment with approved risk policies, frameworks, and systems.
• Consolidate PMC risk registers into programme-level and departmental risk registers for escalation and reporting.
• Assist the client in developing the commercial strategy.
• Support direct contracts, risk, and other support service departments, ensuring the timely production of all required commercial deliverables by KBR.
• Assist in producing commercial reports throughout the project life cycle.

Experience, skills, and knowledge

• Saudi Arabian citizen.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quantity surveying, law, or business.
• Recent graduate.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Competencies

• Leadership.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Commercial awareness.
• Strong client focus.
• Planning and organisational skills.
• Accepts responsibility.
• HSE awareness.