Job Description

• Maintains project cost to complete budgets in alignment with as sold position and in coordination with budget holders.
• Supports forecast estimation and verify 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.
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.  Also compare productivity factors and validate accuracy of cost 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. Reports on cost movement root causes impacting sales targets.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant technical discipline preferred; however, candidates with relevant experience will be considered.
• 10+ years of industry experience in cost control.
• 5+ years of experience in onshore or offshore cost control.
• Excellent understanding of earned value management – forecasting, productivity index (PI), cost productivity index (CPI).
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Project finance deep understanding with expert knowledge of ERP systems (Netsuite preferred)
• Enterprise Projects Performance Software experience (EcoSys preferred)