Project Controller
Job Summary
Our Client is a leading European Real Estate Investment, Development, and Management company, looking for a skilled Construction Controller to ensure efficient cost management across multiple construction projects. This role requires a structured and analytical professional with expertise in budget control, financial analysis, and ERP systems, capable of optimizing project costs while maintaining high-quality standards.
Milan-based
Job Summary:
A skilled Construction Controller is needed to ensure efficient cost management across multiple construction projects.
This role requires a structured and analytical professional with expertise in budget control, financial analysis, and ERP systems, capable of optimizing project costs while maintaining high-quality standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Budget Control & Optimization: Monitor and manage all open budgets, identifying cost‑saving opportunities through project revisions and efficiency improvements.
- Financial Supervision: Ensure an efficient cost structure by closely collaborating with project managers, planners, and the finance department.
- Work‑in‑Progress Reconciliation: Align construction overviews with WIP and coordinate with accounting to maintain financial accuracy.
- ERP System Management: Set up and maintain construction processes, including workflows, control mechanisms, and ongoing system optimization.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Create, update, monitor, and finalize construction budgets in the ERP system, ensuring accuracy and compliance with company guidelines.
- CAPEX Management: Review and approve capital CAPEX weekly, ensuring proper evaluations, retentions, and adherence to contract terms.
- Cost & KPI Compliance: Assess building improvements based on costs and revenues, ensuring compliance with KPIs.
- Risk & Performance Analysis: Conduct cost‑value reconciliation to ensure budget adherence and proactively identify potential risks or discrepancies.
- Reporting & Documentation: Provide detailed financial analyses of all construction budgets and revenues, delivering insights to management for strategic decision‑making.
Requirements:
- Degree in Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years in construction, cost control, project budgeting, or financial management, ideally in an international real estate or construction environment.
- Strong understanding of budget and cost control in construction projects, with a structured and analytical approach to financial supervision.
- Proficiency in ERP systems, preferably RELion and/or Microsoft Dynamics.
- Ability to tackle challenges proactively, find solutions, and work efficiently in a dynamic, fast‑paced setting.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a team‑oriented mindset and ability to collaborate across departments.
- High level of self‑motivation and a hands‑on mentality, ensuring cost efficiency and financial integrity in all project phases.
The offer:
- A key strategic position with a European market leader, in an international, pleasantly challenging work environment, and the concrete possibility to grow together with the Company.
- Permanent contract with a competitive salary package, including base salary and annual bonus & benefits, commensurate with experience and skills. If you are ready to drive the expansion of a recognized market leader in Italy, please send your CV and Track Record to:
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