Commercial Assurance Manager

Power International Holding is looking for an experienced Commercial Assurance Manager to strengthen commercial governance, protect revenue, and improve cash performance across its group-wide portfolio, with a particular focus on major construction and infrastructure projects. This is a hands-on role for a commercially astute professional who can independently validate project figures, identify revenue leakage, challenge reported performance, and turn commercial risks into actionable insights. Key Responsibilities • Validate project cash flow, work in progress (WIP), certification, and collections against source documents. • Identify uncertified earned value, revenue leakage, unapproved variations, and contractual exposure. • Review claims, extensions of time (EOTs), and variations for entitlement, quantum, supporting evidence, and contractual compliance. • Monitor contractual notices and time-bar deadlines to protect the group’s commercial rights. • Reconcile cost, value, and WIP across finance and commercial records, investigating and explaining discrepancies. • Assess receivables ageing and distinguish between certification backlogs, client disputes, and payment delays. • Challenge entity commercial teams and managing contractors using evidence-based analysis. • Deliver reliable commercial reporting, early warnings, and cash exposure updates to senior leadership. • Collaborate with Delivery Assurance to connect project delays with their commercial and financial implications. Requirements • 10+ years of experience 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 contractual notices, disputes, and time-bar provisions. • Understanding of CPI and EAC from a contractor’s perspective, with the ability to assess credible project recovery plans. • Proven track record of improving WIP, collections, cash flow, or claim outcomes on live projects or across a portfolio. • Ability to demonstrate measurable commercial achievements, including specific recovery or claim outcomes personally delivered. • Experience working across multiple currencies and jurisdictions; Gulf or wider MENA experience is preferred. • MRICS or an equivalent professional membership is an advantage. AI Fluency – Essential Demonstrated practical use of AI as a core working tool is mandatory. Candidates must be able to provide specific examples of how they have used AI in their own work to: • Identify cash flow anomalies or reconcile commercial and financial data. • Accelerate claims and variation reviews or identify contractual risks. • Analyse contracts, notices, and correspondence to establish chronologies and flag time-bar risks. • Support the development of AI-assisted commercial tools in collaboration with technical colleagues.