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Job Description
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- 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.
Qualifications:
- 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