External Ada

Senior Associate, Cost Management

Bellevue, WA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$210kDetected 17 hours ago

ForecastingBudgetingExcelERPCadenceLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic SpeakingVariance AnalysisUnderwriting

About the role

Ada Infrastructure is a global data center business committed to being a positive force for technology, people, and the planet.
With eight in-flight campuses across Japan, the UK, and Brazil, we have over 850 MW of power currently available and more than 1,500 MW in our global pipeline.
To learn more about Ada Infrastructure, visit www.adainfrastructure.com or to learn more about Ares Management visit www.aresmgmt.com.

Support the development, publication, and maintenance of top-down cost targets and benchmarking assumptions by market and archetype
Provide estimating support to optimize global design standards and associated kit of parts
Drive consistent cost management practices across assigned projects
Maintain discipline around cost evolution from underwriting through delivery
Partner with Business Intelligence to ensure definitions, data quality expectations, and reporting cadence are met
Develop cost-focused KPI views and executive-ready summaries that surface early warning signals and recommended actions
Support North America Delivery and Development teams with project-level budget governance including commitments, actuals, forecasts, and cash flow inputs across all WBS items including AOR/EOR, GCs, subs and LLE vendors
Validate escalation/inflation and regional market assumptions impacting CAPEX
document impacts and communicate to stakeholders
Support Investment, PMG, and Delivery teams with underwriting cost inputs, sensitivities, and updates through development phases

Strong understanding of CAPEX cost planning, contingency management, and cost-focused change control (scope vs estimate evolution)
Expert-level proficiency in Procore cost modules and exposure to ERP systems such as Yardi and Yardi Construction Manager
Experience partnering with investment/underwriting and maintaining cost inputs, assumptions, and sensitivities in business case models
comfort with CAPEX, cash flow, and return sensitivities)
Strong communication skills: ability to translate cost data into clear executive-ready insights and actionable recommendations

7-10+ years of progressive experience in cost management, quantity surveying, or commercial management (mission-critical / complex infrastructure preferred)

ability to translate cost data into clear executive-ready insights and actionable recommendations
Managing Director, Head of North America & CTO, Ada Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below.
Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus.
$180,000.00 - $210,000.00 The firm also offers robust Benefits offerings.
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Reporting Relationships

The Global Design, Development and Delivery team is responsible for developing and curating Ada's global datacenter development program through scalable, repeatable and agile tools and processes that enable our global development.
challenge assumptions and quantify variance drivers
Provide estimating support to optimize global design standards and associated kit of parts; challenge assumptions and quantify variance drivers

Ares offers a number of additional benefits including access to a world-class medical advisory team, a mental health app that includes coaching, therapy and psychiatry, a mindfulness and wellbeing app, financial wellness benefit that includ

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