Commercial Assurance Director

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Validate cash flow, WIP, and collections across priority projects against source documentation.
• Identify uncertified earned value caused by internal submission failures rather than genuine client disputes.
• Manage commercial and contractual exposure items in the EPMO Tasks & Issues Log.
• Investigate and escalate unexplained significant changes in reported commercial figures.
• Challenge reported numbers and assumptions and highlight emerging portfolio risks.

Construction and commercial knowledge

• Strong knowledge of IPC certification cycles, BOQ structures, variation orders, claims management, and cost-value reconciliation.
• Understand GCOC/FIDIC-style contract mechanisms and assess the commercial substance of notices, rejection letters, and dispute correspondence.
• Understand contractor-side CPI and EAC metrics, cost performance below 1.0, and credible recovery plans.
• Understand WIP and distinguish disputed work from completed work not submitted for certification.
• Understand collections and receivables ageing, including liquidity, payment-routing, and certification backlogs.

Experience and technical skills

• 10+ years in contractor-side commercial, quantity surveying, or commercial management.
• Experience in a main contractor or PMO commercial team on major projects.
• Demonstrable success improving WIP, collections, cash flow, or commercial outcomes on live projects.
• International or multi-entity project delivery experience is highly desirable.
• Comfortable working across multiple currencies, jurisdictions, and operating environments.

AI fluency

• Practical, proven use of AI as a core professional tool is non-negotiable.
• Examples may include identifying cash flow anomalies, accelerating variation or claims reviews, improving commercial analysis, or supporting issue resolution.
• Able to explain outcomes from AI-enabled decisions and collaborate with technical teams on AI-assisted tools; software development expertise is not stated as necessary.

Personal attributes

• Evidence-driven, detail-oriented, and comfortable challenging commercial teams professionally.
• Able to turn complex findings into concise executive-level insights and communicate in clear business language.
• Analytical, inquisitive, commercially astute, and focused on underlying causes.