COST CONTROLLER

Responsabilities

• Maintains project cost to complete budgets in alignment with as sold position and in coordination with budget holders
• Supports forecast estimation and verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labor, manufactured costs, suppliers' invoices, timesheets, travel expenses.)
• Aligns with project team and time schedule to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured and costs time phased
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
• Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to budget holders and drives/supports risk mitigation and cost out
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status, budget deviations and root causes
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are aligned, providing time phased cost forecasts for sales pacing.
• Reports on cost movement root causes impacting sales targets.

Educational Requirements Degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training)

Desired Knowledge & Experience

• Extensive experience of cost controlling of turnkey projects
• Demonstrable experience of leading on large & complex infrastructure projects
• Project finance deep understanding with expert knowledge of ERP systems (SAP preferred)
• Experience managing small teams within a large project
• Risk management processes and tools understanding
• Project planning experience/good P6 planning software understanding an advantage