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About the Role
This role strengthens governance and financial accountability by overseeing cost planning and performance, maintaining project baseline integrity, and driving transparent, auditable processes that support effective decision-making throughout the project lifecycle for major Sydney Metro projects.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the development, monitoring and control of project cost plans, ensuring strong financial governance, baseline integrity, and value-for-money outcomes across the portfolio.
- Ensure the consistent application of cost management and change control frameworks, methodologies, and industry standards across projects to support effective decision-making and project delivery.
- Deliver expert guidance on cost planning, estimating, change management, and project controls, ensuring alignment with statutory, legislative, design, and construction requirements.
- Analyse and improve systems, processes and procedures to identify efficiencies, strengthen project resilience, realise value enhancement opportunities, and achieve best-for-project outcomes.
- Develop and maintain a transparent, auditable, and lifecycle-aligned change control framework, conducting reviews, embedding lessons learnt, and driving consistency across Sydney Metro and Transport portfolios.
Requirements
- Extensive experience managing cost in dynamic, complex, multi-contract project environments.
- Strong track record of developing and implementing robust governance, cost control and assurance frameworks for major infrastructure programs.
- Successfully managed and controlled complex project cost plans across multidisciplinary projects, ensuring financial integrity, effective change control, and the delivery of value-for-money outcomes.
- Experience includes overseeing large-scale infrastructure projects with multiple delivery partners and contractual interfaces.
- Providing strategic advice on cost management, risk, and project controls.
- Strong understanding of emerging industry trends, government policy, statutory requirements, and best-practice approaches.
Skills
- Cost management
- Change control
- Project controls
- Financial governance
- Baseline integrity
- Value-for-money outcomes
- Risk management
- Estimating
- Strategic advice
Location
- Sydney Metro projects
Work Type
- Fixed-term
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- Extensive experience
Benefits
- Flexible work options may be available
About the Company
- Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.
- Sydney Metro delivers Australia’s biggest public transport project and first driverless railway. We engage with our customers and community, and contribute to vibrant and attractive places through station design, interchanges and precincts.
Equal Opportunity
- Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply.