Commercial project manager

Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG; Amersfoort; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/flexible work

Travel opportunities

Pension plan

Job summary

Siemens Energy in the Netherlands seeks a Project Controller to partner with project managers and oversee the financial and commercial performance of energy and grid infrastructure projects. You will manage contract analysis, cost and margin analysis, currency hedging, invoicing, cash flow, and reporting.

You will support bidding, assess risks, and collaborate with international teams while ensuring IFRS 15 compliance and accurate SAP data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (HBO level) in Business Economics or equivalent.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong project finance planning and execution skills.
• Experience with IFRS and project reporting.
• Proficient in SAP and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial and commercial activities during project execution.
• Support sales during bidding and proposal process.
• Assist Project Manager in risk/opportunity assessment and mitigation.
• Contract management including risk and claims management.
• Coordinate with international teams and provide financial guidance.
• Ensure SAP project setup and monthly forecasts.

Skills

Project finance

Stakeholder comms

IFRS reporting

SAP

Excel

Budgeting

Cash flow

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor HBO

Tools

SAP

MS Office

Excel

Job description

\"We energize society\" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

Grid Technologies is looking for a Project Controller to join its Finance team. In this role, you will partner closely with Project Managers to oversee the financial and commercial performance of projects within the energy and grid infrastructure sector, including HVDC systems, offshore wind connections, substations, transformers, and battery storage solutions.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Managing financial and commercial activities during project execution, including contract analysis, cost and margin analysis, guarantees, credit assessments, currency hedging, payment terms, invoicing, cash flow management, cost tracking, and reporting.
• Supporting the sales team during the bidding and proposal process, including credit checks and cost calculations.
• Assisting the Project Manager in identifying, evaluating, and assessing risks and opportunities, negotiating changes with customers and suppliers, and developing mitigation strategies and response actions.
• Contract management, including risk and claims management.
• Collaborating in cross-functional international teams.
• Providing legal and financial support and advice throughout all project phases.
• Handling logistics, tax, warranty, and insurance matters.
• Ensuring accurate project setup and maintenance in SAP in accordance with Siemens Energy\'s commercial and financial guidelines.
• Preparing monthly forecasts based on project progress, with close coordination with factories and the Project Manager.
• Ensuring compliance with IFRS 15, reporting guidelines, and internal controls.

What You Bring

• A completed Bachelor's degree (HBO level) in Business Economics, Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable educational background, or equivalent knowledge and experience gained through professional practice.
• Strong communication skills with project stakeholders, both nationally and internationally, and at least 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong capabilities in project finance planning and execution, including managing the commercial and financial aspects of customer projects, developing budgets, forecasts, and cash flow plans, monitoring invoicing and payment milestones, supporting contract and claims management, and conducting financial performance analyses to ensure project profitability and successful delivery.
• Expertise in reporting, controlling, and forecasting, including preparing project status reports and financial forecasts, performing month-end project closing activities in accordance with IFRS and company guidelines, maintaining accurate project data in SAP and other financial systems, and analyzing project profitability.
• Experience in risk, opportunity, and compliance management, including commercial risk assessments, internal controls, and audit coordination to ensure compliance and effective governance.
• Good knowledge of IT systems such as SAP and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
• Excellent communication skills and a good command of both Dutch and English, both spoken and written.

About the team

Become part of an open and dynamic culture where professional and personal development is high on the agenda. We offer you an educational everyday life in an international work environment with exciting challenges. Our success is built by our innovative and skilled employees, who with their curiosity and high professional proficiencies build new knowledge and help to find answers to some of the world\'s most difficult questions.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world\'s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

• A wide range of professional development and growth opportunities in a global company.
• Encouraging, diverse and collaborative work culture.
• Remote/flexible work and possibilities to travel abroad.
• An attractive, collectively agreed remuneration package with a corporate pension and other fringe benefits.