Job Description Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Builds tender integrated schedules and cost estimates

• Build project schedule and project budgeting in cost and schedule tools

• Ensures compliance to the Global Standard process for Project Controls

• Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems

• Maintain project schedule and cost forecast throughout project

• Analyse schedule and cost trends and provide forecasted cost and schedules to project team

• Maintain a register of potential schedule and cost risks

• Maintain a register of actual and committed costs

• 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 schedule and cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation

• Provides internal and external project reporting of project status

• Collaborate with 3rd parties on project cost and schedules

• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status

• Provides change order calculations to ensure schedule and cost estimates are accurate

• Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation

• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.

• Support project close out and claims

• Lead the team of Project Cost Control analysts on larger projects

• Provide support to tenders

• Oversee the planning function on the project

Accountabilities

• Accuracy of cost budgets, actuals and forecasting

• Collaboration with functional cost owners to find strategies to reduce cost

• Alignment to established standards ( WBS, process, procedures, tools usage)

• Efficiency and effectives of the project cost control team where applicable.

Performance Measurement

Schedule quality

Cost forecasting quality

Schedule forecast quality

Cost and schedule performance of project

Timeliness of reporting

Educational Requirements

Bachelor degree qualified either in finance or may have engineering degree (with financial training).

Experience and Knowledge

5+ years planning large turnkey projects

2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects

Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects

Technical skills / competencies:

• Cost estimating and forecasting

• Project Accounting & Controlling

• Scheduling

• Local GAAP awareness

• Data handling skills (Excel, SAP…)

• Commercial awareness

Behavioural skills / competencies:

• Communication (English language a must)

• Proactive attitude

• Thorough and precise

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes