Senior Cost Controller

• Implementing & maintaining the offshore business cost management control system/process;

• Defining standardization tools to ease the cost controls in the projects,

• Implement and ensure cost control processes to report on estimates, expenditures and cost commitments accurately;

• Strong liaison with the project cost controllers, to ensure the determination on the committed expenditure and update/interrogate current budget assumptions;

• Extract, process, and implement lessons learnt

• Provide with reporting that allows comparison across projects and understanding the differences between them

• Liaising with the ‘Project Manager’, ‘Project Planner’, ‘Risk Manager’ and "Change Manager" in order to understand project issues and anticipate (and mitigate) their impact on the project's budget;

• The individual must be able to manage and assess accurately an enormous amount of information, identifying opportunities and early warnings on any potential deviation.

• Support projects ad hoc, when required When referring to a project, the candidate should be capable to:

• Be the responsible for any budget related topic in the project, and the contact point for 100+ colleagues in the peak of the project.

• The candidate will have more than 12 Lead Project Managers reporting to him/her budget related information

• Supporting the month-end Value of Work Done (accruals/prepayments) process;

• Leading the month-end financial reporting process including variance cost analysis reporting;

• Support the project’s cash flow reporting/forecasting process;

• This position is responsible for preparing and reviewing project cost reports providing details on progress, actuals, forecast and explanation of variances, schedules updates and overall project dashboards and assemble data to consolidate

• Compiling on a quarterly basis the project's VoWD plan/forecast and explaining monthly any deviations from such forecast;

• Produce reporting in alignment with the project cost control procedure;

• Interact with Control department to agree on reporting accounts and periodic information needed;

• Providing ad-hoc ‘cost control’ support to the Project

• Creating and maintaining WBS structures;

• Creating and maintaining AO’s;

• Purchase Requisition /Order Approval (from a cost control perspective, i.e. coding and budget);

• Commitment Reporting / Closing Down PO’s;

• Month End Processes: · VoWD;

• Manual accruals request;

• Cost Variance Analysis Report;

• Project Monthly Report

• Forecasting Processes:

• Creating the Forecasts;

• Change control process;

• Creating and maintaining budget availability

• Ad-hoc cash flow reporting;

• Supervising the invoicing and payment process.

• Supervising the project budget, anticipating any need for changes in the budget.

• Leading the process for report and approval of any change in the budget Dimensions

• The candidate will be responsible of implement cost controlling tools and provide expert analysis for a pipeline of projects, over 4 GWs, during its the preFID, Execution and Commissioning phases.

• These are multimillion CAPEX investment projects, with a delivering timeline over 5 years phase, where considering synergies and interactions across all the different areas of the project can have an impact on the budget, which add a massive complexity in the management of these areas.

• On top of this, the candidate will not only be responsible for managing the Cost Control Procedure but will also ensure the correct introduction and implementation of the procedure to the entire project organizing workshops, training sessions, etc...

• The candidate will deal with complex contracts.

• Experience +5 years in Cost Management, ideally for offshore wind projects

• Degree qualified or equivalent qualifications / experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to influence at various levels of an organisation

• Proven significant experience of IT applications (SAP, Microsoft Office, Document Management Systems)

• Proven significant experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams

• Accurate, discipline, data analysis expert

• Previous experience in Procurement processes.

• Planning & Organising

• Prepare project cost control procedure
• Acting as a central resource coordinating inputs across the project from every Activity Manager, managing the cost control of the project.
• Liaising with the ‘Project Manager’, ‘Project Planner’, ‘Risk Manager’ and "Change Manager" in order to understand project issues and anticipate (and mitigate) their impact on the project's budget;
• Prepare project Baseline reviews
• Define, implement and resource the appropriate organisation structure to ensure excellent project cost control
• Responsible for coordination and management of multi-functional and multi-national internal & external personnel within the Project cost Controls function.

• Internal and External Relationships

• Head of Project Controls
• Project Controls Managers
• Project Controls Support Manager
• Package Managers/Activity managers
• Project Cost Control Managers
• Procurement / Contract Management
• Project Planner
• Project Risk Manager
• Project Change Manager
• Business Performance
• Fiscal and Administration Corporate Departments

• Growth & Continuous Improvement

• Initiative & Change

• Focused on Results

• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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