Project Controller

-; St. Neots; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy automation firm in St. Neots is seeking a Project Controller to drive financial activities within projects. You will partner with the Project Management team on financial and commercial matters while managing project performance. The ideal candidate has a strong background in project controlling and financial analysis, with excellent communication skills. This role offers a hybrid working model and a range of competitive benefits, including a generous salary, bonus, and flexible benefits scheme.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive contributory pension scheme

Private medical cover

Generous bonus scheme

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in Project Controlling, including relevant tools and systems.
• Proficient in Revenue Recognition and fiscal regulations.
• Excellent cost management and budgeting skills.
• Experience in the Engineering industry or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Provide input on commercial issues and financial aspects of projects.
• Prepare project invoices and report on financial accounting.
• Optimize project cash flow and manage currency risk.
• Ensure accuracy of balance sheets and forecasts.

Skills

Project Controlling

Revenue Recognition

Cost management

Financial analysis

Excellent English communication

Knowledge in electrical, power, and energy sectors

Job description

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to: LD Business Controller

In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive all financial activities within multiple small‑scale projects or a single large project. Each day, you will act as a business partner to the Project Management team, supporting all financial and commercial matters. You will also showcase your expertise by actively driving project performance.

The work model for the role is hybrid, based in St Neots, UK.

This scope of the role covers the Process Automation Energy Industries UK, Ireland and Azerbaijan cluster.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Providing input to negotiations on commercial issues, during local risk review process, and on the financial aspects of the project execution plan.
• Preparing project invoices and financial accounting and reporting (including project site accounting).
• Driving and seeking for the optimisation of project cash flow, revenues, and gross margin contribution and effectively managing currency risk, and bonds, guarantees, and tax issues.
• Ensuring the accuracy of project balance sheet, income and cash flow statements, and monthly/quarterly forecast and participating in opportunity/risk identification, monitoring risk mitigation measures, and ensuring they are timely implemented.

Qualifications for the role

• Proven track record in Project Controlling, including use of relevant tools and systems
• Proficient in Revenue Recognition and other relevant standards; fiscal and tax regulations; familiar with sales‑related business processes, contract management, and credit control
• Possess excellent cost management, budgeting, and financial analysis skills
• Excellent English communication skills
• Experience in the Engineering industry or related fields such as electrical, power, and energy

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Flexible benefits scheme (includes options to buy / sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)
• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous employee referral scheme
• Company car or cash for car allowance
• Hybrid/ Flexible working
• Private medical cover
• Generous bonus scheme

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalise and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonise. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimising waste for customers, from project start‑up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. Run What Runs the World.

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