Commercial Assurance Manager

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Validate project cash flow, WIP, certification, and collections against source documents; identify uncertified earned value, revenue leakage, unapproved variations, and contractual exposure.
• Review claims, extensions of time, and variations for entitlement, quantum, evidence, and contractual compliance; monitor notices and time-bar deadlines.
• Reconcile cost, value, and WIP across finance and commercial records, investigate discrepancies, and assess receivables ageing and payment delays.
• Challenge entity commercial teams and managing contractors; provide reporting, early warnings, and cash exposure updates to senior leadership.
• Connect project delays with commercial and financial implications in collaboration with Delivery Assurance.

Requirements

• 10+ years in construction commercial management, contracts, or quantity surveying, with direct ownership of project commercial figures.
• Strong expertise in IPC certification cycles, BOQ structures, cost-value reconciliation, claims, variations, and collections.
• Working knowledge of FIDIC-style contracts and GCOC, including notices, disputes, and time-bar provisions.
• Understand CPI and EAC from a contractor’s perspective and assess credible project recovery plans.
• Proven improvements in WIP, collections, cash flow, or claim outcomes; able to demonstrate personally delivered measurable results.
• Experience across multiple currencies and jurisdictions; Gulf or wider MENA experience is preferred.
• MRICS or equivalent professional membership is an advantage.

Essential AI fluency

• Practical use of AI as a core working tool is mandatory.
• Provide examples of using AI to identify cash flow anomalies, reconcile data, review claims or variations, analyse contracts and correspondence, flag time-bar risks, or support AI-assisted commercial tools.