Microsoft Lease Cost Lead EMEA 

United Kingdom, England, London 

826289964

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND significant quantity surveyor experience OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience working on data center projects.

• Good communication skills, ability to collaborate with all other areas of the data center program, being able to think strategically, ability to build the trust of our construction partners needed to report our on very large CAPEX portfolios.

• Must possess a clear understanding of the full Construction Life Cycle

• Develop, maintain, and report out on project scope, schedule, and budget with cost as the main driver in those conversations.

• High personal standard to deliver a thoughtful, polished, and quality portfolio report-out deliverable.

• Understanding of Power Bi/Power Apps, &/or any other data analytics tools.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Partner collaboratively with cross-functional teams (design engineering, construction, cost controls functions, scheduling, finance, etc.) to understand requirements and ensure alignment to scope, schedule, and budget.

• Develop and maintain cost accrual and forecast reports for the Global lease fit-out portfolio

• Report out to senior managers on cost report data, project cost progress and assumptions to ensure a clear and concise message is sent and understood.

• Provide day-to-day Cost Management activities, as required, to maintain the projects financial reporting and logging systems i.e. a good understanding of commitments & forecasting spends for monthly, quarterly & the fiscal year.

• Support, develop and improve cost management and estimating processes and procedures.

• Drive standardization and consistency throughout the group.

• Management of all commercial issues on all current, future, and past projects and report on these issues through the Project Controls & Construction Management head office in Redmond on a regular basis.

• Commercial management of the lease provider (LP) from liaison with our procurement office on the RFP documents through to the final payments and agreement of the final accounts and paperwork.

• Provide the PER (funding) team all commercial support necessary to ascertain the required timing of the funding intervals and all commercial information needed to back up these funding requests to management. This will normally involve the production of multiple option cost scenarios.

• Embody our and