Head of Program Controls & Governance

SoftBank Group International; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

SoftBank Group International invites applications for a senior role to lead the Portsmouth controls and governance nerve center. You will own the integrated master schedule, cost baseline, cash flow, risk/change process, governance cadence, reporting architecture, and decision log across PMO, Owner Engineer, EPC/EPCM, and external partners.

You will establish the master schedule structure, cost controls, and a robust executive reporting rhythm.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in engineering, construction management, finance, accounting, business, or related field.
• 15+ years of project management, controls, or program governance on large capital projects.
• Deep expertise in scheduling, cost engineering, earned value, cash flow, risk, and change control.
• Experience establishing controls systems for development, FEED, EPC/EPCM phases.
• Ability to challenge schedules, estimates, changes, risks, and progress claims.

Responsibilities

• Own the Portsmouth owner-side program controls framework covering schedule, cost, estimating, cash flow, risk, change, reporting, governance, and decision cadence.
• Establish the integrated master schedule structure and reporting across PMO, EPC/EPCM, Owner Engineer, utilities, permitting, and site scopes.
• Lead cost controls including baseline, forecast, accruals, contingency, cash flow, and executive reporting inputs.
• Develop and operate risk and opportunity processes with quantitative analysis and mitigation ownership.
• Own program change governance including approvals, thresholds, and logs.
• Build the executive reporting cadence: weekly dashboard, monthly report, decision log, and board inputs.
• Partner with Finance on funding requests, capital planning, and board materials.
• Ensure PMO/EPC/EPCM controls deliverables and challenging underlying assumptions.
• Define PMIS/reporting data requirements and coordinate with info management capabilities.
• Recruit and lead planning/scheduling, cost controls, risk/governance resources; travel as required.

Skills

Integrated master scheduling

Primavera P6

Cost controls

Risk management

Governance

Executive reporting

PMO

EPC/EPCM

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor degree in engineering, construction management, finance, accounting, business, or related field

Advanced degree (engineering, business, construction management, finance, or analytics)

Tools

Power BI

EcoSys

Prism

SAP

Oracle Unifier

Job description

SoftBank Group International invites applications for a senior role to lead the Portsmouth controls and governance nerve center. You will own the integrated master schedule, cost baseline, cash flow, risk/change process, governance cadence, reporting architecture, and decision log across PMO, Owner Engineer, EPC/EPCM, and external partners.

You will establish the master schedule structure, cost controls, and a robust executive reporting rhythm.