Cost Controller

Certain Advantage are recruiting on behalf of our Engineering client for a Cost Controller requiring 3 days onsite in Staffordshire.

Suitable candidates will be able to offer previous experience working in a cost control role within sectors like Energy / Renewables, Oil & Gas, Power / Grid, Electrical projects.

This is an important role for an experienced Cost Controller with Primavera skills, Cost Management skills and analytical forecasting skills to drive project teams to control their projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
• Identify Cost Risks and Opportunities by reviewing project schedule and progress, project scope evolution, and functional execution and events.
• Provide cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
• Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
• Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
• 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 cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Provide time-based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition

Your Experience

• Previous experience controlling project costs
• Demonstrable experience in driving project teams to control projects
• Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes
• Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills
• Primavera skills
• Cost management skills

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