Cost Audit Manager

Licensed sponsor Wakefield Full-time Posted 5 months ago

Cost Audit Manager

Wakefield - Hybrid

Role Overview

This is a key role responsible for ensuring robust cost assurance, audit governance, and value for money across a diverse portfolio. The Cost Audit Manager will provide independent review, challenge, and validation of M&E quoted, remedial, and project works.

The role will focus on auditing quotations, invoices, and applications for payment to ensure accuracy, compliance, and commercial integrity, while identifying opportunities for cost savings and value engineering. The position will also be responsible for producing audit reports that demonstrate savings, efficiencies, quality of workmanship, adherence to specifications, and overall value for money.

Working closely with Finance, Commercial, and Operational teams, the role will ensure transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement in cost management across the contract.

Key Responsibilities

Operations

Ensure all contractual obligations are met within the assigned area and activities, supporting the Account Director and wider Account Management Team in achieving contractual KPIs.
Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, responding promptly to requests for support.
Work closely with the Contract Manager and client to obtain approvals for works and ensure all appropriate accruals and commitments are accurately reflected in financial systems.
Monitor supplier performance to ensure effective day-to-day service delivery and escalate any performance issues where required.
Promote a positive Health & Safety culture, ensuring any issues are appropriately escalated and addressed.

Commercial & Audit

Lead the independent audit and validation of supplier quotations, invoices and applications for payment, ensuring compliance with contractual terms and commercial accuracy.
Challenge costs, assumptions and scopes of work to ensure value for money and alignment with contract requirements.
Identify discrepancies, overcharges and non-compliant submissions, taking appropriate action where necessary.
Produce detailed audit reports highlighting savings, cost avoidance, trends and areas of financial risk.
Support CAPEX planning by validating cost assumptions and providing insight into financial risks and opportunities.
Work with Supply Chain and Finance teams to produce accurate monthly reporting on spend, accruals and forecasted activity.
Support the management and audit of contract variations, ensuring transparency and comprehensive documentation.

Technology

Utilise the Concerto CAFM system and other client and Bellrock systems to monitor cost performance and audit activity.
Produce reports analysing asset performance, lifecycle costs and replacement priorities.
Identify opportunities to improve cost visibility and audit capabilities through system improvements, APIs and data integration.

Technical

Lead audits of statutory compliance records, ensuring technical and financial alignment.

Skills and Experience

If you’re ready to be the energy that helps us build our business, share our success, and really own it as a Cost Audit Manager, you’ll need…

Competencies

Strong experience in a cost audit, commercial assurance, or Quantity Surveying role within FM, property, construction, or building services.
Proven experience auditing supplier costs, invoices, and commercial submissions.
Strong understanding of commercial governance, contract compliance, and cost control mechanisms.
Ability to challenge and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
Advanced Excel and financial analysis capabilities.
High attention to detail with the ability to identify anomalies and risks.
Strong understanding of FM commercial models, PPM regimes, and contractual performance frameworks.
Ability to interpret technical maintenance data and relate it to financial outcomes.
Ability to influence change and implement improved ways of working.
Strong analytical and investigative mindset.
Confident in challenging stakeholders and driving accountability.
Excellent problem-solving and root cause analysis skills.
Flexible, innovative, and forward-thinking.
Strong decision-making capability.
Ability to manage and develop challenging relationships.
Commitment to Bellrock values.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex financial and technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable

BSc in Quantity Surveying or related discipline.
MRICS or working toward chartership.
NEC, JCT, or FM contract experience.
Facilities Management qualification or working towards one.

AI fluency & learning mindset: We are looking for people who actively use AI in their day‑to‑day work, demonstrate strong curiosity about new technologies, and take ownership for continuously improving how they think, work, and deliver.

Working arrangements

We embrace smarter working practices which offer our employees the opportunity to work their hours flexibly and remotely where their roles and business needs allow. In this role, the successful candidate would be required to work from Wakefield, working three days a week with the team and the rest of the week can be worked from home.

What can we offer you?

Upon joining Bellrock, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including:

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + 1 additional day as a thank you (enjoy it, it’s on us)
Salary exchange pension scheme
Life cover
Paid sick leave
Health Assured employee assistance and wellness program
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Salary sacrifice schemes: Cycle to work
Holiday purchase scheme of additional 5 days per year
Offers and discount scheme designed to save money on everyday shopping and essentials
Healthcare Cashplan
MotorSave Scheme
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Virtual GP

Helping you to shine

We’ve always encouraged new and different perspectives - and that also means making ours a workplace that encourages diverse and unique voices. Where everyone feels welcome, included, and supported to be themselves and achieve more.

So, if you join us, you’ll find an inclusive workplace that recognises your hard work, offers lots of learning and development, flexible and hybrid working, and support for your wellbeing. As well as benefits that can make a difference to your life.

Why Bellrock?

At Bellrock, our people make the difference.

We support organisations across the UK with property, facilities management, compliance, engineering and technology services, helping our customers create safer, smarter and more sustainable environments.

We're committed to creating a workplace where people feel supported, respected and able to develop their careers. If you're looking for a business where your contribution is valued and where you can continue to learn and grow, we'd love to hear from you.

Inclusion

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to providing a fair and accessible recruitment process for everyone.

Apply today.