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Quantity Surveyor Project Manager

Location:
Reading, United Kingdom
Posted:
January 06, 2022

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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Komal Rana

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adpuf5@r.postjobfree.com

Employers:

Trinity (Cadent Gas)

ARCC Telecom

Cornerstone UK

Vinci Construction UK Ltd

Vida Home Loans

The Buy to Let Business

North View Group

Huntswood

Xafinity Consulting

Qualifications:

2017 – Present: Oxford Brookes University

MSC Quantity Surveying And Commercial Management

2014 – 2015: University of Portsmouth

MSc Business Economic, Finance & Banking

2011 – 2014: University of Portsmouth

BSc (Hons) Degree in Accounting with Finance

2010 – 2011: Reading College

Access to Higher Education

2008 – 2009: Thames Valley University

BTEC First Diploma in Business

2007 – 2008: Thames Valley University

GCSEs: Maths, English, Drama, Media, Photography

Computer literate to a high standard in a wide range of applications including Excel, Power Point, Word & Outlook

Availability:

1 month (can be reduced with holiday)

Current Location:

Reading

Preferred Location:

Free to relocate

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

April 2021- Present Trinity ( Cadent Gas)

Quantity surveyor – Gas

Conduct tendering process for the schemes that requires tendering to different subcontractor.

Conduct procurement process to ensure that the scheme has been priced within the agreed rates with the subcontractors. Ensure that the precured schemes is in line with the budget specified.

Work closely with the subcontractors to ensure that all the scope of the work has been captured within the given cost per meterage agreed.

Complete application of the payments on a weekly basis to ensure that the subcontractors are paid . Ensure that the track sheet completed by the operating manager is completed correctly and reflects the corrects and appropriate meter and scope of the work.

Assess and deal with the Deal with early warning notices and compensation events in conjunction with the framework of NEC4 which has been submitted by the subcontractors. Lease with the Cadent QS and the subcontractors qs to ensure that proper substantiation and adherence is achieved to approve the early earning and the Compensation events .

Work alongside project manager, operation site manager, planning team and the design team to ensure that the project is running efficiently .

Produce regular cashflow reports and preform cost value reconciliation . Conduct reconciliation exercise to ensure that all the scope for the work has been achieved, costing and correct rates has been added in order to achieve profitability and adherence within the contract .

Proactively resolve commercial issues, ensuring that the contract is managed as per the NEC terms.

Attend weekly planning meeting along side the planning team to ensure and understand any upcoming schemes that require procurement and costings.

Attend monthly KPI meetings with the subcontractors. Work with the design and the planning to team to understand, experience and managing ongoing and upcoming utilities projects.

October 2020 – April 2021 ARCC Telecom

Quantity Surveyor – Telecommunications

Maintain good relationship with Client QS and sustain constant communication to sustain transparency within the projects .

Work along sing project manager to ensure that all the scope within the design is captured during the tendering process.

assess if the project is feasible and profitable by conduction reconciliation process form the quotes submitted by the Subcontractors .

Work with the project manager to find alternative subcontractors during the tender process if the quotes submitted by the subcontractors is significantly High.

Attend Client meetings will be required.

Ensure Preparing tender and contract documents to clients within specified SLA.

negotiate costs and tender with client QS to ensure that the tender and the cost completed is approve

Chasing & auditing costs from suppliers.

Assess, Manage and monitor the cost within projects and Maximise profit across projects.

Work alongside the project team to ensure variation that has occurred during the project is captured to avoid Loss prevention.

Complete final accounts work along the Client to have the final accounts approved. Ensure that all the work scope and the variation that took place from the inception to the completion of the project is captured.

Ensure responsibility for Requesting GRN process billing and invoices for completed works.

Monitor of internal and subcontract resource and reporting on costs and rate changes.

Access, record and Report site Profit & Loss. Conduct Internal meetings with Commercial & Projects.

Valuing completed work, managing budgets and overseeing payments. Besides that, take responsibility in Submitting regular budget reports.

December 2019- Present Cornerstone UK LTD

Quantity Surveyor- Telecommunications

Receive incoming business SOR demand or change requests instructed by Various suppliers on behalf of our main customer (Telefonica and Vodafone), assess scope of the request and price either using standard contract rate cards or through direct supplier negotiation.

Manage the site construction costs for large telecommunications project. Assess and evaluate costs provided by partner and add possible value engineering to solutions.

Review Civil & Structural Work Quotes against agreed Detailed Designs, Price Schedule.

Negotiate agreement for items in quotes with Partners, working with team to develop Guidelines for non-scheduled items.

Raise purchase orders ensuring correct use of finance programme and product coding to enable future reporting and supplier instruction.

Commercial assessment and authorisation of supplier claims and applications for payment.

Use Excel spreadsheet to generate Customer Order Requests from agreed quotes.

Upon receipt of submission, use correct contract rates to approve fees where work is complete and evidence in place or reject where not in order to prevent over-spend. Ensure completion of monthly valuation in the Agreed 5 day SLA.

Following build work negotiate agreed final accounts with partners and customer. Agreement of build final accounts by assessment of work done against agreed schedule of rates using direct negotiations where standard rates are not in place.

Prevent over-spend and allow future business spend forecasting.

Ensure compliance with agreed contracts and rates at all times.

Always negotiate and liase with suppliers for correct updates.

Assessment of change requests that may drive scope change for ongoing instructions and commercially manage that impact through the PO/finance systems in order to control work in progress and commitment.

Conduct monthly progress meeting with suppliers/ Sub- contractors to ensure correct updates of the instruction and close out all legacy instruction.

Issue & manage all internal PO’s issued to suppliers.

Manage internal database ensuring all costs are tracked & validated.

Maintain constant communication, contact and Work closely with Project Managers, Property Consultants, Project Engineers, Acquisition specialists & other key stakeholders

Timely & accurate recording of information on internal databases

Prepare high-quality, accurate reports for both internal & external distribution as required

Understand, promote and comply with the company QA, Health, Safety and Environmental Policies and Procedures.

Also have experience and is confident in using software’s such as Agresso, Evenflow, Omnix and reading complex design layouts.

Adherence to constant change in the sector. Constant engagement with team to bring new solutions to new challenges and develop constant strategies, initiatives and approaches to bring clear thinking and new opportunity to challenges and changes.

December 2018 – November 2019 Vinci Construction UK LTD

Position Assistant Quantity Surveyor (Construction and Facilities Management)

Arranging payments by assessing invoices, drafting the invoices onto the coins system and leasing with accounts team for payment to the contractor.

Producing material order, Material requisition and Material GRN via coins as per the requirement of the project

Leasing with clients to negotiate the work instructed in the project, agreeing on the price that meets the budget of the clients, instructing and managing of the work as per the specification of the works.

Ensure the invoices raised against work orders is correct.

Keeping the quote log and the Sub contractor Invoice Log up to date.

Updating and keeping the track record of variation and the compensations events to create a correct projection of the final accounts.

Create and update progress report to assess the development of the overall projects.

Perform value management and cost control exercises. Also identify, analyse and mitigate any possible commercial risks.

Produce quotes for works and demonstrating the understanding of works, risks and costs.

Assist production of the KPI reports and submit financial information within the reports.

Understanding the supply chain management system, leasing and adding new suppliers and keeping the existing suppliers up to date in the supply chain management system (Iportal).

Create appropriate paper works for tendering process, contracts and other documents. Also create sub-contractors order and allocate work to subcontractors as per the tendering process.

Liaise with health and safety regulations at all times. Ensure sub- contractors have corrects RAMS, necessary documents to complete the instructed work.

Monitoring the development of designs against the Project Budgets. Also ensure design meet legal, health and safety and quality standards.

Preparing cost reports, final accounts, cost plans and cash flow projections every month.

Preparing & interpreting turnover/cash flow projections and profit/loss forecasts.

Prepare and submit reports as appropriate to Company requirement especially month end results, forecasts and activity reports

Adheres to Health & Safety responsibilities by complying to the requirements of the Company's Health & Safety Policy and Health & Safety Management Plans.

Also have experience and is confident in using architectural and Constructional software’s such as Coins, CEMERS, Revit for BIM, navies work, costx, C and reading complex design layouts.

Also Acquires Competent ability to interpret and use contractual obligations, under all standard forms of contract – such as NEC3 and the JCT suit of contracts.

July 2018- November 2018 Vida Home Loans

Position TMLA (Telephony Mortgage lending Administrator)

Receive inbound calls from intermediaries and action as appropriate in a timely manner to increase efficiency

Listening and being able to build relationships at point of contact

Respond to customer, intermediary or solicitor enquiries

Work as part of a team to ensure departmental targets are met along with maintaining high service standards to all stakeholders, in particular intermediaries

Build successful working relationships with external contacts such as brokers, customers, surveyors and solicitors.

Interact with intermediaries and customers to ensure expectations are being met at all times Achieve KPI’s and targets

Nov 2017- July 2018 The Buy to Let Mortgages

Position Case Handler

Carry out post, email and telephonic duties (manual and auto/predictive dialler activities). This will include:

Maintain Effective communication with clients, solicitors and Bank to take the each case to at a completion stage.

Understanding and Maintaining and constant communication with client and lenders to ensure lending criteria is met.

Providing a consistently high level of customer service to clients

Handling of communication between solicitors, banks and other third parties

Instruction and management of valuations

Processing of mortgage applications

Conduct Income check to ensure that the salary declared by the clients is accurate

Handle standard queries and where appropriate, transfer non-standard enquiries to specialist agents/departments.

Taking payments from customers & authorized parties including setting up Direct Debit instructions

Accurately record events (e.g. telephone calls) onto the Account administration systems.

Respond to inbound calls and conduct outbound telephonic campaigns on defaulting loans & mort-gages

Jul 2017 – Oct 2017 NORTH VIEW GROUP

Position Mortgage Servicing Advisor

Carry out post, email and telephonic duties (manual and auto/predictive dialler activities). This will include:

Handle standard queries and where appropriate, transfer non-standard enquiries to specialist agents/departments.

Taking payments from customers & authorized parties including setting up Direct Debit instructions

Accurately record events (e.g. telephone calls) onto the Account administration systems.

Respond to inbound calls and conduct outbound telephonic campaigns on defaulting loans & mortgages

Effectively negotiate arrangements offered, using influencing and negotiation techniques. This will include: Accurately capturing information to assess customer circumstances including customer Income & Expenditure information

Ensure decisions are made in line with Special Servicing/Client Policy rules and Financial Regulations & Legislation.

Apr 2017 – Jul 2017 WORLD DUTY FREE

Position Customer care Assistant

Provide outstanding customer service and ensure product recommendation, link selling.

Responsible for stock control, organising and ordering goods

Managed the cash till during shift. Conduct banking and financial transaction during and in completion of the shift.

Nov 2016 – 31 Mar 2017 STARBUCKS

Position Barista

Provided outstanding customer service

Responsible for cash management, accounting and stock control

Dealt with customer complaints in a professional manner

Endorsed promotions and merchandising

Nov 2015 – Sep 2016 HUNTSWOOD (National Australia Bank)

Position Case Handler

Providing advice on making a claim and the processes involved;

Processing new insurance claims notifications;

Collecting accurate information and documents to proceed with a claim;

Analysing a claim made by a policymaker;

Guiding policyholders on how to proceed with the claim;

Contacting trades people from a network of approved professionals and arranging for them to make repairs on the policyholder's property;

Monitoring the progress of a claim;

Investigating potentially fraudulent claims;

Identifying reasons why full payment may not be made;

Ensuring fair settlement of a valid claim;

Building relationships with loss adjusters, forensic accountants and solicitors, as well as other legal/claims professionals;

Ensuring the customer is treated fairly and that the customer receives excellent service in accordance with industry and company guidelines;

Handling any complaints associated with a claim;

Involvement in loss adjusting activities and in legal discussions relating to settlement;

Seeking legal recovery of monies paid out;

Managing a team of claims handlers (at managerial level);

Taking responsibility for productivity and profit;

Adhering to legal requirements, industry regulations and customer quality standards set by the company.

Jul 2015 – Nov 2015 XAFINITY CONSULTING

Position Pension Administration

Managing the pension of individual clients who obtains different pension scheme.

answering enquiries by telephone, in writing or by e-mail

using a computer system to check and update records

calculating pension forecasts and preparing statements

processing contributions

transferring benefits to another pension provider, if a customer changes employers

arranging payment of pensions and lump sums

keeping accurate records keeping up to date with pension and tax laws

2011 – 2015 STARBUCKS

Position Barista

2014 Q-CLUB

Position Bar Staff

2013 BP PETROLEUM STATION

Position Customer Care Assistant



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