Senior Project Controller

Accountabilities

• Analyze financial results and monitoring the budgeting & forecast control cycle. Doing so you will be identifying potential financial risk areas and supporting the implementation of risk mitigating activities;
• Close teamwork with the Project Management team being involved in all the economic and financial activities;
• Actively participate in the monthly /quarterly / yearly closing process, in coordination with the Finance & Project Management teams within the factory, but also in alignment with other actors;
• Ensuring all commercial & financial reporting on monthly basis during the project phases, signalizing issues and opportunities;
• Driving the optimization of project cash flow and revenues while maintaining the accuracy of the project balance sheet, income statement and monthly/quarterly forecast;
• Coordinating all financial aspects of the project, including estimate at completion and related cost-to-complete, forecasted revenues and cash flow and risk and opportunities assessments, as well as ensuring alignment with other functions including project controls and planning/scheduling;
• Contract Management and Financial involvement with the Project Manager team and the Sales colleagues during project execution (eg. commenting T&Cs, review of offer calculations.
• Supporting adherence to corporate governance, integrity, assurance, internal control, group charter and business-specific finance directives and instructions;
• Ensuring compliance with internal guidelines/procedures.

Required Skills & Experience

• Solid experience as Project Controller;
• Five years of relevant experience;
• Bachelor or Master Degree (Engineering, Accounting or Finance;
• Experience in the area of Project Controlling and Contract Management, such as customer contract analysis, commenting contracts, project cost and margin analysis and/or project cost calculations;
• Experience in revenue recognition and understanding how the free-cash-flow of the company is composed / can be further improved;
• Knowledge on claim management, forecasting the main variances to analyze and predict the closing results of the projects themselves;
• Knowledge of Project Management basis;
• Experience with SAP (especially CO) is highly desirable;
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Office (focus on Excel and Outlook);
• Outstanding attention to detail, accuracy and ability to multitask;
• Have a real passion and enthusiasm for deal management in complex project;
• Proactivity;
• Ability to communicate effectively in a multicultural environment, result oriented approach, proactivity, autonomy and open mind;
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented approach and strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Flexibility and adaptability according to specific requirements;
• Team Player, looking to add value to the organization and being well trusted partner of the colleagues and/or of the Management;
• Available for short business travels.

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree

Languages:

English Proficiency