Project Cost Clerk (Construction)

Location: Crewe, United Kingdom; work from the project office or site as required

Company

hirify.global is a growing business focused on valuing and supporting its employees.

What you will do

• Maintain accurate project cost records, ledgers, commitment schedules and supporting documentation.
• Process and reconcile purchase orders, delivery notes, goods-received records, subcontractor applications, invoices, credit notes and accruals.
• Validate approvals, supporting evidence, contract or order coverage, and project, work-package and cost-code allocation.
• Monitor actual costs, commitments and forecasts against budgets, investigating anomalies, duplicate charges, coding errors and emerging variances.
• Prepare cost reports, reconciliations, period-end schedules and audit-ready working papers.
• Liaise with suppliers, subcontractors, procurement, commercial, finance and site teams to resolve cost and payment queries.

Requirements

• Significant experience as a Cost Clerk, Project Cost Administrator, Commercial Administrator or in a similar role on construction, civil engineering or infrastructure projects.
• Practical knowledge of purchase-to-pay processes, project cost coding, commitments, accruals, reconciliations and cost reporting.
• Experience working with subcontractors, suppliers, quantity surveyors and site-based project teams.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, filters and reconciliation techniques.
• GCSEs or equivalent in English and Mathematics.
• Right to work in the project location and ability to work from the project office or site as required.

Nice to have

• AAT qualification, bookkeeping credential or relevant finance or commercial training.
• Experience with construction ERP, finance, procurement or cost-management systems such as COINS, SAP, Oracle or Causeway.
• Construction-related training or familiarity with standard forms of contract.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position in a growing business.
• Opportunity to work with commercial, finance, procurement, engineering and site teams.
• Work is carried out in a fast-paced, site-based project environment.
• Equal-opportunities employer committed to fair treatment and inclusive employment practices.