Senior Cost Consultant

Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula: Approach each client engagement as a partnership , create an environment that attracts the most talented professionals and allows them to flourish, and regulate growth to maintain excellence in our service standards. We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Cost Consultant to support cost estimation, tender cost reconciliation, and construction cost control activities for large-scale data center and mission-critical projects in Dubai, UAE. This role requires strong cost management, commercial, analytical, and reporting skills, with the ability to support cost planning across design, tender, and construction phases. The ideal candidate will have experience preparing design-stage cost estimates, supporting tender-stage cost reconciliation against bid prices, and managing construction-stage cost control activities for complex capital projects. The role requires the ability to work closely with project management, design, procurement, tendering, commercial, planning, and construction teams to ensure cost accuracy, budget alignment, and financial control throughout the project lifecycle. You will play a key role in supporting the project’s cost management framework across each project phase, following the RFP’s literal per-phase structure, including design cost estimation, tender support cost reconciliation, and construction cost control. RESPONSIBILITIES Support cost management activities across the design, tender, and construction phases of large-scale data center and mission-critical projects. Prepare, review, and update cost estimates during design stages, ensuring alignment with project scope, design development, specifications, assumptions, and client requirements. Develop cost plans, estimate summaries, quantity take-offs, benchmarking inputs, cost breakdowns, and budget validation reports. Review design information, drawings, specifications, technical documents, scope narratives, and project assumptions to identify cost drivers, gaps, risks, and exclusions. Support tender-stage cost reconciliation by comparing internal cost estimates, bid prices, contractor submissions, commercial proposals, and pricing breakdowns. Identify variances between estimates and bid prices, including scope gaps, pricing discrepancies, quantity differences, exclusions, assumptions, escalation, contingency, allowances, and commercial risks. Prepare cost reconciliation reports, bid comparison summaries, tender cost analysis, and recommendation inputs for project leadership and client review. Coordinate with tendering, procurement, contracts, engineering, and commercial teams to support cost validation during the tender process. Support construction-phase cost control activities, including budget tracking, committed cost monitoring, forecast updates, cost reporting, and cost-to-complete analysis. Monitor actual and forecasted costs against approved budgets, identifying variances, trends, risks, and corrective actions. Support the review of payment applications, progress claims, variation requests, change orders, and cost impacts during construction. Maintain cost registers, budget logs, change logs, contingency trackers, cost reports, and supporting commercial documentation. Coordinate with project controls, planning, procurement, contracts, construction, and finance teams to ensure cost information is accurate, timely, and aligned across project reporting. Support estimate-at-completion updates, cash flow forecasting, contingency management, and cost risk assessments. Provide cost input into value engineering, scope optimization, procurement decisions, and commercial st…