Engineering Project Controls Cost Management

Amgen Inc. (IR); Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen Inc. in Hyderabad, based in the Engineering Project Controls Cost Management team, delivers cost management services across global capital projects from the AIN capability center.

The role focuses on cost reporting, forecasting, and governance to improve visibility, quality, and predictability in project execution. Key responsibilities include reviewing scopes, estimating and contractor bids, and ensuring compliance with company policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Project Management, or a related field.
• 8–13 years of experience in project controls, cost management, engineering, finance, procurement, capital projects, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Understand cost management requirements from funding through project closeout, ensuring compliance with processes, policies, and governance.
• Support cost management for global capital projects, including cost reporting, forecasting, commitments, actuals, accruals, and closeout.
• Review scopes of work, engineering estimates, and contractor bids to support informed decisions.
• Evaluate progress against approved scope and project expectations.
• Prepare cost analytics, dashboards, and reports for global projects.
• Collaborate with Front-End Planning and cross-functional teams to improve visibility and issue resolution.
• Ensure standardization, compliance, and audit readiness across cost management workflows.

Skills

Cost management

Project controls

Forecasting

Reporting

SAP

AI tools

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree

Finance degree

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

## **Job Description****ABOUT AMGEN**Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We discover, develop, manufacture and deliver innovative medicines to help millions of patients. Amgen helped establish the biotechnology industry more than 40 years ago and remains on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today.**ABOUT THE ROLE**The **Engineering Project Controls Cost Management role** will be based in **AIN** and will be part of the **Project Controls organization within Amgen Engineering**. This role will support the Cost Management Continuous Improvement tower by delivering cost management services across global capital projects.This role will support cost management centralized tasks across global projects from the AIN capability center. The Engineering Project Controls Cost Management role will be responsible for service delivery, SAP-enabled process discipline, continuous improvement, and standardization to improve quality, productivity, cost visibility, predictability and execution support across the global capital projects.The role will help strengthen compliance to established project controls, finance, and Source-to-Pay processes, while maintaining audit-ready data, documentation, and reporting discipline that supports cost predictability and visibility.**Roles & Responsibilities:**## Cost Management and Controls* Understand cost management requirements from funding through project closeout, ensuring compliance with applicable processes, policies, and governance expectations.* Support cost management for global capital projects, including cost reporting, forecasting, commitments, actuals, accruals, change tracking, budget tracking, variance analysis, and closeout support.* Review and analyze scopes of work, engineering estimates, and contractor bids to support informed project decisions.* Evaluate engineering and contractor physical progress against approved scope and project expectations.* Cost forecasts against scope, schedule, and project performance indicators.* Review change orders and invoices to support accurate cost control and payment processing.* Monitor and support the management of capitalized overhead across the portfolio.## ## Reporting, Forecasting, and Portfolio Visibility* Prepare cost analytics, dashboards, and reports to support global projects* Utilize AI for improved predictability.* Monitor and reporting of project cash flow to enable accurate capital latest estimate predictions across the portfolio.* Perform risk analysis reviews for cost estimates, forecasts, and schedules using applicable tools and software packages.* Apply strong analytical insight to support project teams with effective evaluation, analysis, and decision-making.## ## Collaboration, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement* Work closely with the Front-End Planning team to support cost managers globally.* Partner with Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Source-to-Pay, Accounts Payable, and global project teams to improve cost visibility, predictability, and issue resolution.* Ensure standardization, compliance, audit readiness, and process discipline across cost management workflows, tools, templates, and ways of working.* Communicate and escalate project matters and project controls performance proactively.* Closeout of contracts, purchase orders, and projects within the assigned portfolio.* Compliance and audit readiness across cost management* Communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement.* Support Engineering Digital Transformation workstreams.**Basic Qualifications and Experience:*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Project Management, or a related field.* 8–13 years of experience in project controls, cost management, engineering, finance, procurement, capital projects, or a related field.* Experience in the global pharmaceutical industry preferred.**Functional Skills (Must Have):*** Strong experience working in teams, service delivery, and operational performance in a project controls or capital project environment.* Deep understanding of cost management, project controls, forecasting, reporting, commitments, actuals, accruals, and variance analysis.* Strong experience with SAP-enabled cost management, project controls, finance, or Source-to-Pay processes.* Ambition for continuous improvement, standardization, process discipline.* Experience partnering across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Source-to-Pay, Digital, and project teams.* Strong ability to use AI Tools, data, reporting, and process metrics to improve visibility, quality, and decision-making.* Strong understanding of process compliance, audit readiness, documentation discipline, and internal controls within project controls, cost management, or finance-related workflows.* Ability to work across global, cross-functional stakeholder environments.**Good-to-Have Skills:*** Experience supporting capital projects within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or advanced manufacturing industry.* Experience working in a centralized service model or global capability center.* Familiarity with Power BI, dashboards, automation, analytics, or project controls reporting tools.* Experience managing or coordinating internal and external project controls / cost management resources.* Experience improving finance, procurement, or Source-to-Pay workflows related to capital projects.**Professional Certifications:*** Relevant certification in project management, project controls, cost management, continuous improvement, finance, or related discipline preferred.**Soft Skills:*** Communication and stakeholder management skills.* Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.* Ability to work collaboratively across global teams, cultures, and time zones.**EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT**Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.**Work Hours**Work hours and shift requirements may vary based on business needs. Flexibility to work across different shifts may be required.