Project Controller

Johnson & Johnson; Leiden; On-site; EUR 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Leiden seeks a Project Controller to govern financials across a large engineering portfolio. You will consolidate budgets, forecasts, and controls for about 50 projects, partnering with EPCM teams and project managers to ensure data integrity and timely reporting.

The role emphasizes SAP-based processes, cost control, and governance, with opportunities for contract extension based on performance. 40 hours weekly, 12-month duration, starting January.

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP or equivalent ERP/financial system.
• Experience with budgets, commitments, actual expenditures, forecasts, and changes.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and ability to work with structured datasets.
• Strong attention to detail and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Collect and consolidate approved budgets, commitments, actual expenditure, forecasts, changes, and financial risks.
• Manage budgets and forecasting, create summary reports, handle PO creation and submissions, and track invoices and billing using SAP, Ariba, and SharePoint tools.
• Reconcile information from different sources and follow up on missing, inconsistent, or delayed inputs.
• Produce consistent project and portfolio controls reports for management and governance reviews.
• Consolidate forecasts received from accountable stakeholders without altering forecasts.
• Compare forecast movements against budgets, actuals, commitments, and changes.
• Analyze consolidated information to identify variances, trends, and financial exposure.
• Maintain visibility of approved, pending, and potential changes and their financial impact.
• Document movements and explanations to be traceable.
• Promote consistent reporting definitions and cut-off dates across EVM projects.
• Support PMs and Portfolio Management with clear, fact-based information for decisions.
• Contribute to standardisation of EVM project-controls reporting and continuous improvement.
• Turn complex controls information into clear management reporting.
• Collaborate across internal teams and EPCM partners.
• Drive reporting quality, consistency, and efficiency.

Skills

Budgeting & Forecasting

Project controls

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Excel

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (Engineering/Finance/Business)

Tools

SAP

Ariba

SharePoint

Power BI

Job description

Duration: 12 months (targeting a January start)

Hours: 40 hours per week

Imagine your next project driving financial governance across an expansive engineering portfolio, gaining exposure to site leadership, building an extensive network, and unlocking potential contract extension opportunities.

This project-focused role is centred on budget management and controls within the EVM - Engineering, Validation & Maintenance / Project Delivery & Engineering business area, supporting the Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Leiden engineering portfolio. The Project Controller supports EVM project and portfolio governance by consolidating financial and project controls information into a clear, consistent, and reliable management view. Managing a portfolio spanning roughly 50 projects, the role turns inputs from EPCM partners, Project Managers, Portfolio Management, Finance, and other relevant stakeholders into one reliable project and portfolio controls view. The position collects and reconciles data across diverse sources, tracks variances, and highlights emerging financial exposure. The Project Controller owns the integrity and presentation of the consolidated controls picture, while respective source owners remain accountable for the forecasts, assumptions, and information they provide.

roles and responsibilities

• Collect and consolidate approved budgets, commitments, actual expenditure, forecasts, changes, and financial risks.


• Manage budgets and forecasting, create summary reports, handle PO creation and submissions, and track invoices and billing using SAP, Ariba, and SharePoint tools.


• Reconcile information from different sources and follow up on missing, inconsistent, or delayed inputs.


• Produce consistent project and portfolio controls reports for management and governance reviews.


• Consolidate forecasts received from accountable stakeholders without creating or independently amending those forecasts.


• Compare forecast movements against budgets, actuals, commitments, approved changes, and previous reporting periods.


• Analyse consolidated information to identify significant variances, trends, and emerging financial exposure.


• Maintain visibility of approved, pending, and potential changes and their financial impact.


• Ensure significant movements, assumptions, and explanations are documented and traceable.


• Promote consistent reporting definitions, structures, and cut-off dates across EVM projects.


• Support Project Managers and Portfolio Management with clear, fact-based information for decisions and escalation.


• Contribute to continuous improvement and standardisation of EVM project-controls reporting.


• Apply analytical thinking to connect information from multiple sources and identify what has changed and why.


• Maintain accuracy by ensuring reliable, complete, and traceable information.


• Exercise constructive challenge by questioning inconsistencies while preserving effective working relationships.


• Demonstrate ownership by following information gaps through to resolution.


• Utilise communication skills to turn complex controls information into clear management reporting.


• Foster collaboration to work effectively across internal teams and EPCM partners.


• Drive continuous improvement to improve reporting quality, consistency, and efficiency.

how to succeed

• Must have SAP experience (or experience with a comparable ERP/financial system).


• Project management experience or relevant experience in project controls, cost control, project finance, or project-management support.


• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Finance, Business, Project Management, Project Controls, or a related discipline.


• Experience with project budgets, commitments, actual expenditure, forecasts, and change information.


• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to identify trends and inconsistencies.


• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and confidence working with structured datasets and reporting.


• Strong attention to detail, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.


• Ability to work across multiple projects, contributors, and reporting deadlines.


• Pharmaceutical or life-sciences industry experience preferred (or experience in engineering, capital projects, construction, or another regulated environment).


• Experience working with EPCM or engineering service providers preferred.


• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools preferred.


• Understanding of project lifecycle, cost control, change control, and governance principles preferred.

This role offers a very competitive hourly rate. This contract will run for 12 months

you are welcome here

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is working to create an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences are valued and each and every one of our people feels that they belong and can reach their potential. No matter who they are.

about Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Patients inform and inspire our science-based innovations, which continue to change and save lives. Applying rigorous science and compassion, we confidently address some of the most complex diseases of our time and unlock the potential medicines of tomorrow. Our diverse portfolio spans multiple therapeutic areas - Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Retina. We are continuously working to develop treatments, aspiring to find cures, pioneering the path from lab to life, and championing patients every step of the way.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

For more than 130 years, diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) have been part of our cultural fabric at Johnson & Johnson and woven into how we do business every day. Our commitment to respect the dignity and diversity of all is embedded in our Credo. We know that the success of our business depends on having the best talent in a workforce that reflects the diverse markets we serve around the world and an inclusive culture that values different perspectives and life experiences. That is why we are working to create an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences are valued and each one of our people feels that they belong and can reach their potential. No matter who they are. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Johnson & Johnson means "You Belong".