Assistant Vice President - Benchmarking, Aldar, Abu Dhabi, UAE

 JOB PURPOSE

•Perform the vertical and quantity surveying related activities across all projects under various stages

•Implement metrics and measures to adhere standards and cost effectiveness.

•Assist in the provision of market intelligence by using various sources of information.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Feasibility / Early-Stage Support

•Benchmark requests for consultancy fees, including professional staff rates, studies, surveys.

•Provide support in the definition of budgets for Capital Projects

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Cost Planning / Design Development

•Prepare or review rough order of magnitude (ROM) costings

•Review of cost estimates and cost plans at various design stages (concept, schematic, detailed)

•Review of unpriced tender bills of quantities

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Commercial Tender Evaluation

•Benchmark requests for consultancy fees, including professional staff rates, studies, surveys, provisional sums

•Review of main contract tenders

•Review of priced bills of quantities prior to award.

•Review of Operation & Maintenance tenders

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Change Orders (Variation Orders)

•Assess variations on consultancy fees.

•Review main contract variations, including requesting quotations, build up rates etc.

•Validate staff rates based on position and years of experience.

•Evaluate costs associated with various studies / surveys / activation of provisional sums.

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Corporate / Asset Management

•Review corporate fees for marketing, legal and other professional fees.

•Validate staff rates based on position and years of experience.

•Evaluate costs associated with various studies / surveys / activation of provisional sums.

•Assess capital costs associated with ancillary structures or systems applicable to existing assets.

•Review costs associated with repairs / maintenance costs for existing built assets.

•Advise on Operation & Maintenance costs.

 

Market Intelligence / Database

•Ability to gather, structure, and analyse data.

•Disseminate information to higher management.

•Continuously monitor cost changes in construction commodities (price indices, tender price inflation etc.)

•Observe and communicate market trends to inform decision making.

•Staying up to date with technological developments, including but not limited to software, modern methods of construction, prefabrication, design for manufacturing, and other innovative concepts.

•Maintain and update the cost database and the associated dashboards.

 

KEY RESULT AREAS

•Accuracy against the target defined

•Timeliness for reviewing and closing various requests.

•Value addition by identifying potential savings and opportunities.

 

Qualifications

 

YoE / QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

RELATED YEAR OF EXPERIENCE

Min of 8+ years of experience in quantity surveying / cost management.

YOE IN MANAGERIAL POSITION

Min of: N/A

SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Relevant experience with cost consultancy firms or large scale real estate developers.

TECHNICAL AND INTERPERSONAL SKILLS

•Deep exposure to GCC region and adjacent markets preferred

•Demonstrated track record in real estate developments

•Excellent estimation and cost planning capabilities

•Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal required to present estimates, cost plans, variation orders etc. to senior leaders for approval.

•Experienced in working with multi-disciplinary teams that include members from Development / Design, Project Management, Procurement and Commercial functions.

QUALIFICATION

Bachelor degree in quantity surveying or engineering fields.

Chartered membership (RICS, CIOB etc.) desirable, not essential.

 

Primary Location

: AE-AZ-Abu Dhabi

Job

: Procurement

Organization

: Procurement

Employee Status

: Direct Hire

Job Type

: Standard

Job Posting

: Mar 30, 2022, 4:11:39 PM

https://aldrecruit.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=20702

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Senior Accounts Assistant, Emirates Group, Dubai, UAE

 JOB PURPOSE

Provide support to relevant finance section through generation of financial entries and invoices, perform basic level of receipting and payment function with reconciliation of clearing accounts which are maintained and controlled by the relevant finance section. Provide high level of administrative support within the section ensuring high quality and accurate services. JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES *Generic - Log invoices in the system upon receipt in the correct supplier account and obtain further certification to enable invoices to be processed promptly. Identify invoices to be returned to the supplier where information is inadequate. - Update the financial system with complete and accurate details to enable generation of invoices, payment voucher, receipts and other financial documents and entries on time. - Check documentation to identify deviations from set accounting procedures and practices on payments, receipts, accruals, prepayments, recoverable and advances reporting results to immediate supervisor for appropriate action. -Generate and dispatch financial documents and check that financial entries created in the accounting system are backed by adequate supporting documents. - Maintain manual or system based records of process requests, enquiries, complaints, claims, payment vouchers and reconciliation statements and identify queries relating to discrepancies which need to be escalated to the immediate supervisor, providing information and support to enable the query to be resolved as soon as possible. - Respond to queries raised on a daily basis from staff, other finance sections or external clients (e.g.debtors) as appropriate, investigating queries where necessary to ensure a prompt and accurate response. - Perform allocation and a basic level of reconciliation based on predefined parameters for various clearing accounts, debtor, creditor, petty cash, reimbursement, deduction and accrual accounts so that all transactions are appropriately and accurately booked in the correct accounts *Specific to Revenue Accounts - Check the Credit Card Clearing Account on monthly basis to ensure all credit card transactions are billed to relevant credit card companies and accounts reflect the correct balance. - Monitor Revenue Accounting System to ensure prompt billing to credit card companies for documents issued against credit cards and handle the rejections / charge backs from the credit card companies to ensure dues from the credit card companies are recovered in time. *Specific to OF&RM -Release the credit buffer to clients, whose payments have been received on a periodic basis, updating the system with the temporary limit in order to facilitate further business. In unclear or ambiguous cases, contact the respective Credit Controller with suggestions for approval to release the credit buffer. *Specific to Corporate Accounts - Generate supplier cheques for signature by relevant authority based on appropriate supporting documents after checking if approvals and authorizations are in line with the Company policy as per Authorities Manual. *Specific to Cash Control - Perform various transaction processing and accounting activities of Business Process Insourcing (BPI) to meet requirements of SLAs and ensure customer expectations are met and services are delivered as per agreed standards, through maximizing utilization of time by proper prioritization of assigned tasks. Ensure right skillsets are acquired within training period and assigned tasks, whether specific or shared, are continuously delivered. - Tally cash collected and banked with the sales report on a daily basis from various dnata, Emirates and cash control locations. Escalate discrepancies such as cash shortages immediately to the relevant supervisor/ manager of the unit to investigate further, provide the cash control supervisor with full details if the discrepancy cannot be resolved. - Receipt daily collections from various dnata, Emirates and Cash Control locations into the debtor and Group Ledger accounts. Update the business and operational systems with information such as debtor, receipts and exchange rates as required. Be flexible to work in any of Cash Control locations with different shift patterns.

Qualifications & Experience

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS Qualifications: 12 Years schooling or equivalent Experience: Finance & Insurance. Accounts 3+ Years Knowledge/Skills: Knowledge/skills: Computer literate with proficiency in the use of MS Office and particular excel Ability to multitask

https://www.emiratesgroupcareers.com/search-and-apply/352364

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