Senior Project Cost Specialist

The posting, as Tiree wrote it

Empowering Today, Shaping Tomorrow

We deliver complex building and infrastructure projects that drive excellence from inception to completion. Our mission is to empower our clients and teams to achieve unparalleled success by providing tailored, innovative consulting services—ensuring every project is executed with precision and impact.

But this work is about more than delivering projects—it’s about unlocking potential and creating lasting change. We foster an environment where people are supported, celebrated, and empowered to grow, learn, and achieve. Our culture fuels imagination, creativity, and bold thinking, and we see that reflected in both our work and the meaningful impact it has on the built environments we help shape.

Join us in shaping the future of capital project delivery.

The Role

As a Senior Project Cost Specialist, you own the financial picture for assigned projects. You set the cost control approach, maintain the integrity of the cost tracker and forecasts, and advise project managers on the commercial implications of design changes, contractor positions and funding decisions. Project leaders rely on your analysis to explain options and trade-offs clearly, and to act early when costs or funding begin to drift. You also strengthen the cost function itself by refining processes, developing the people who support it and bringing consistency to how cost information is captured and reported.

What You’ll Do

• Cost strategy and control: Establish and oversee the cost control framework for assigned projects, including the cost tracker, commitment management, budget baselines and change control. Reconcile accounting records, purchase orders, contractor reports and third-party cost reports, and resolve material discrepancies. Assess variances, cost classifications, contingency adequacy and emerging funding pressures, and recommend corrective action to the project manager.
• Forecasting and cash flow: Lead the preparation of monthly forecasts, cash flow projections and annual expenditure outlooks. Challenge contractor and consultant inputs, test the assumptions behind them and reconcile them against funding requirements. Present forecasts, risks and scenarios to project leadership and stakeholders, with recommendations on how to manage them.
• Commercial analysis and advisory: Analyze change orders, contract amendments, contractor fee positions, holdbacks and other commercial risks, and advise project managers on their financial and contractual implications. Prepare written recommendations that set out the options, the risks and the preferred course of action, and support negotiations where cost positions are contested.
• Financial and executive reporting: Oversee the monthly financial reporting package, review it for accuracy and completeness, and approve it for submission. Maintain executive financial summaries and dashboards, and explain variances and cost allocations across reporting sources so leaders can make informed

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ar, dedicated to family, work-life balance, and personal well-being.

• Volunteer Day — up to 8 paid hours per year to volunteer with a registered charity.
• Maternity Leave Top-Up
• Access to expert mentorship and training and development programs

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At Tiree, we believe careers should be as unique as the individuals who build them. That’s why we offer our employees the opportunity to carve out a career pathway tailored to their ambitions, supported by the right training, tools, and mentorship to help them succeed.

We appreciate you taking the time to apply and are committed to getting back to you in a timely manner and delivering an efficient and enjoyable interview process.

Note: Artificial Intelligence is not involved in the screening or selection of candidates. Those decisions are made entirely by real, actual humans. While we may use AI for small administrative tasks during the recruiting process, the evaluating and choosing of candidates is strictly human powered.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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We strive to create a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion where everyone at Tiree feels welcome, supported and celebrated. There is dynamism and pride in a community shaped by diverse voices, perspectives and lived experiences. We want to empower you to be you.

We are extremely proud of our teams – they are strong, determined, dedicated people who aspire to excellence, and they make our organization better every day. Our goal is to meet that standard of excellence in our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and for our teams to reflect the wonderful diversity of the communities in which we live and work.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide a selection process that is accessible to all candidates. Please advise if you require any accommodations to ensure your equal participation.