Assistant Manager

Commercial Manager – Commercial Advisory and Business Transformation

Risk Consulting, Energy and Infrastructure team works across the public and private sectors helping our clients to manage their businesses, contracts, and medium and large-scale projects efficiently, facilitating growth and innovation. We support our clients with the development of business strategies, business integration, and reviews of complex and long-term contracts. We offer continual improvement programmes and facilitate the introduction of best practices. Our team works across all industries including renewable energy, power and utilities, transport, oil and gas, health, housing, and education.

Job Purpose

As a Commercial Manager within the Risk Consulting team you will be involved in all aspects of project delivery. You will contribute to and underpin the management of client engagements working closely with senior representatives of client organisations. In addition to working with Risk Consulting and other colleagues in the delivery of projects in the above areas, you will proactively seek and steer the conversion of opportunities to develop the Risk Consulting team.

Role & Responsibilities

This role is for an ambitious and driven professional, who can work alongside our existing team to deliver our business portfolio, develop collaborative relationships with our clients, understand their needs and help to find a bespoke solution.

The successful candidate would be required to demonstrate:

• 4-5 years + strong post-qualification experience in a field such as commercial management, contract management, procurement and subcontractor’s and supplier’s management.

• A good understanding of the effective contract management practices and ability to roll out respective processes and procedures for Forvis Mazars clients (Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Infrastructure projects are the main focus)

• Experience in conducting detailed commercial assurance, assessment of contract performance and undertaking cost management reviews of various contracts including major infrastructure projects and PPP contracts with support from the wider multi-skilled team

• Experience in using standard contract forms (e.g., NEC, FIDIC, JCT)

• Ability to clearly develop, produce and communicate findings to stakeholders using a variety of mediums including visualisation tools, dashboards, trackers, periodic reports etc.

• Ability to work collaboratively with the service teams across Mazars (Global Infrastructure, Chris and Disputes, Risk and Internal Audit, Public sector team) and Mazars clients

• Capability to undertake analysis of complex and high volumes of structured and unstructured data and present it in a simple and concise way using dashboards and other visual tools where applicable (desirable)

Responsibilities may include:

• Engagement Delivery- Responsible for contributing to planning, managing, and executing projects (large scale) on time and within budget, alongside managers and Partners. Responsible for providing a project delivery foundation to managers and junior team members as appropriate. Responsible for developing and maintaining strong long-term client relationships.

• Risk Management- Maintain and apply up-to-date knowledge of the firm's risk management policies and operational procedures and ensure these are adhered to.

Skills and Experience

• Strong contract management experience

• Excellent knowledge of FIDIC, NEC and JCT contract mechanisms

• Experience in internal audit, contract transformation and improvement

• Excellent commercial acumen and business understanding

• Ability to identify issues and areas for improvement through analysis

• Team orientated, with strong relationship and interpersonal skills

• Intermediate to advanced computer software skills (MS Office and other relevant software)

• Experience (4-5+ years)

Education and Qualifications

• Degree in Commercial Management, Commercial or Construction Law or similar an advantage

• ACCA or ACA – desirable

Inclusion and Diversity

At Forvis Mazars inclusion and diversity are central to our values. We recognise that being an inclusive and diverse organisation makes us stronger as a business. We seek to attract and recruit people who reflect the diverse nature of our clients and communities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, faith or belief, social background, age, and disability. Mazars selects candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience.