Cost Controller

Quest Global; Stafford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in engineering services seeks a Cost Controller to manage project budgets and forecasts in Stafford. The role requires analytical skills to drive project success and ensure alignment with global standards. Ideal candidates should have strong communication skills and proven experience in cost management.

Qualifications

• Experience in cost controlling with standard tools.
• Ability to analyse cost trends and forecasts.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage project costs and control budget deviations.
• Develop and present financial data transparently.
• Identify cost risks and opportunities through project reviews.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Cost management skills

Primavera skills

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• Able to drive project teams to control the project
• Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes
• Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills
• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• 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
  
  

Job Requirements

• Able to drive project teams to control the project
• Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes
• Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills
• Primavera skills
• Cost management skills
• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• 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
  
  

Work Experience

• Cost Controlling
• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• 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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

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