What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Cost Controller (18122) position at Arion?
Job Description
Job Requirements
- 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)
- Earn Value Management *