Cost Controller

Ramboll; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Ramboll India invites applications for a Controller role within Cost Management. You will partner with senior management, drive budgeting and financial planning, and deliver cost analyses across the global organization. The role offers high visibility and opportunities to shape financial performance.

The successful candidate will be analytically strong, service-minded, and capable of navigating a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders. Prior BI tooling experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• B.Com and MBA (Finance) or equivalent degree.
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to handle multiple tasks.
• 4+ years of work experience in FP&A or as a controller/finance business partner.
• Ability to challenge status quo and drive change with stakeholders.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with BI tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning, budgeting, and overall financial results.
• Provide cost management insights and performance analyses for global support functions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and finance teams across countries.
• Lead KPI definition, tracking, and reporting for the function.
• Support cost improvement initiatives and business cases with data-driven analyses.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

Financial partnering

Cost management

Education

B.Com and MBA (Finance) or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

Jedox

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About Ramboll

Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. We have more than 18,000 experts working across our global operations in 35 countries. Our experts are leaders in their fields, developing and delivering innovative solutions in diverse markets including Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a more sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow.

Company Description

About Ramboll

Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a foundation-owned people company. We have more than 18,000 experts working across our global operations in 35 countries. Our experts are leaders in their fields, developing and delivering innovative solutions in diverse markets including Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, Energy, and Management Consulting. We invite you to contribute to a more sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering company. Combining local experience with global knowledge, we together shape the societies of tomorrow.

Ramboll in India

Ramboll has more than 1,800 experts working across five offices in India applying their passion to deliver innovative solutions in markets as diverse as Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health and Energy. Founded in Denmark, Ramboll is a people company. We invite you to contribute to a sustainable future working in an open, collaborative, and empowering culture.

Job Description

We invite you to bring your financial toolbox and your experience as a trusted finance partner in to an ambitious and dynamic environment. To succeed in this role, you must be analytically strong, service minded as well as have the ability to navigate and perform in a matrix organization with a lot of stakeholders. The role is a high impact role with a high level of visibility and interaction with Senior Management, so you must be comfortable bringing your partnering mindset to the most senior people in the organization. You will be part of a high performing team that act as valued finance partners across the global organization, and you will have the opportunity to shape your role as we are constantly working to developing our services to our stakeholders. Are you our new Controller?

You will join the Cost Management team.

As our new Controller, you will be part of a skilled, dedicated, and ambitious team, that is dedicated to managing the performance of our global Support functions. As a company we are on a globalization journey busy reporting team, which is overall responsible for the controlling of more than 35 countries and covering a revenue of approx. DKK 14 billion and 100 reporting companies. You will join cost management team, a part of Ramboll’s global finance organization and your work location will be at our offices in Noida, India. As the Controller, you will serve as a trusted advisor to the support organization, focusing on cost management, financial analysis, budgeting, business planning, and performance management. Your role is crucial to ensure transparency and accuracy in financial reporting while providing strategic business partnering support.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• As a controller and trusted finance partner, you are the custodian of the performance within cost management area.
• Overall responsibility of financial results and financial planning.
• Drive a continuous cost improvement mindset and proactively identifies opportunities to optimize costs by utilizing data driven spend.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and the rest of finance.
• Defining, tracking, and maintaining the sets of KPI’s that are used to steer the function.
• Work closely with the Global head of Finance, functional Director, and local country leadership team.
• Organizing financial reviews together with functional head and head of cost management.
• Being the one for analyses, trends, calculations, and simulations. Support complex business cases.
• Focus on detailed analysis of cost, allocations & postings, and cost trends.
• Coordinating with local Finance & accounting controllers. Sparring with them

Qualifications

• B.Com and MBA (Finance) or equivalent degree in Finance.
• We are looking for people with a strong analytical mindset that can handle multiple tasks and challenges at hand, while maintaining a good sense of urgency.
• You have 4+ years of work experience within financial planning & analysis, and/or experience as a controller or Finance business partner.
• You thrive of challenging the status que and can put together and execute a plan for change.
• You have a positive attitude and have outspoken collaboration skills and work well with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent skills in Excel and PowerPoint are a requirement as you will be leading financial modelling. Experience from working with business intelligence systems is an advantage. Today we use systems like Power BI and Jedox.
• You have a solid understanding of financial statement analysis and accounting principles.
• You are a self-starter, striving for continuous process improvements and hold high attention to the detail.
• Excellent communication skills and mastering the discipline of presenting data in a clear and concise manner is a must.

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include:

• You are hands-on with excellent attention to details, and you care passionately about being precise and accurate.
• You can work independently as well as in the team.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion is at the heart of what we do

We believe in the strength of diversity and know that unique experiences and perspectives are vital for creating truly sustainable societies. Therefore, we are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone can flourish and reach their potential. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and encourage you to contact our recruitment team to discuss any accommodations you need during the application process.