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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

Overall

• Support the Lead Project Controller to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems.
• Supports estimating, estimates and/or verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labour, manufactured costs, suppliers’ invoices, timesheets, travel expenses...)
• Aligns with planning to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured.
• Maintain a register of potential cost risks.
• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs.
• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost.
• 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 functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation.
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status.
• Provides change order calculations to ensure cost estimates are accurate.
• Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation.
• Aligns with Lead Cost Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are tied to enable accurate.
• Support project close out and claims.
• Ensure quality of the project controlling reporting.
• Ensure accuracy of cost budgets, actuals, and forecasting
• Ensure collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost.
• Ensure efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.
• Contribute to month/quarter-end closing calendar.
• Ensure claims management and successful project closeout.

Quality & Lean

• Comply with Quality Procedures, work instructions and Processes at GSI level and Project Controls Function.
• Report or resolve any non-conformances and process in a timely manner.

• Identify areas of opportunity for standardization / optimization and where possible participate in a Kaizen or similar lean event to implement any identified improvements.

Qualifications:

Educational Requirements:

• Degree qualified either in finance or engineering degree (with financial training).
• Background in Project Management. Could be part of the graduate certificate or independent training.

Experience and Knowledge:

• Several years’ Experience in cost estimating and forecasting, Project Accounting & Controlling (on large turnkey projects would be a plus)
• Experience working with project management plans (PMP) specifications and estimates (PS&E)
• Experience in the identification, monitoring and reporting of project risks
• including interfaces with Project Control, and workload management
• Start-up mentality -> chance to perform and faster promotions, chance implementing own ideas. Academy for further education.

Technical skills / competencies:

• Cost estimating and forecasting
• Project Accounting & Controlling
• Scheduling
• Data handling skills (Excel, SAP, Power BI…)

Behavioural skills / competencies:

• Communication
• Fluent in English is a must
• Proactive attitude
• Thorough and precise

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