Strategic Project Controller — Capex & Forecasting

Vopak; Deer Park (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Savings Plan

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Vopak in the United States is seeking a Project Controller to support financials, accruals and cost controls for capital projects across sustaining and growth initiatives. You will track, forecast and report on project costs to help regional leadership stay on budget.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance with at least five years in accounting/controlling, cost forecasting and project accounting.

Qualifications

• Accredited Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or another closely related business field.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in company accounting/controlling with experience in cost forecasting, cost accounting, and/or project accounting, budgeting/estimating.
• Experience in assessing project status from a cost perspective and advising project management of cost status and areas of concern.
• Experience in gathering cost information from various components of the project team, including contractors and suppliers.
• Experience in reconciling cost tracking tools to enterprise accounting systems.
• Experience in an accrual-based accounting environment.
• Experience with petroleum, petrochemical, chemical and related industries preferred.
• Excellent and proven knowledge of accounting and financial systems; proven analytical skills.
• Proven ability to operate multi‑task under stressful situations (i.e., multiple deadlines, multiple customers, and different conditions and formats of data).
• Customer service focus including the ability to speak diplomatically; problem solver.
• Excellent computer skills, including ability to easily use MS Office suite; ability to create, read and manipulate Excel spreadsheets. Expert user of Excel.
• Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written.

Responsibilities

• Provide cost control support to multiple Project Managers in areas of cost reporting, budget comparison, and forecasting.
• Responsible for overseeing, tracking and monitoring project total expenditures and performance data (e.g. progress) vs. budget, time‑schedule, and recommending actions to improve progress.
• Supports the accrual process by tracking reversals and ensuring invoices are matched to accruals, as appropriate.
• Monthly reconciliation of project cost management tools with OCS.
• Inform Finance about all project‑related tax issues and ensure Finance involvement on local project tax requirements to fiscally optimize and comply with all requirements.
• Coordinates monthly meeting between stakeholders to assess and determine accruals and ETCs.
• Performs project costing related reporting to the Project Manager for weekly and monthly review to ensure that expenditures are kept within the project budget.
• Manage monthly Sustaining Capex reporting, consolidating data from Opcos for submission to global stakeholders.

Skills

Cost forecasting

Cost accounting

Project accounting

Budgeting/estimating

Excel

MS Office

Analytical skills

English communication

Multi‑tasking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

MS Excel

MS Office

Job description

Vopak in the United States is seeking a Project Controller to support financials, accruals and cost controls for capital projects across sustaining and growth initiatives. You will track, forecast and report on project costs to help regional leadership stay on budget.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance with at least five years in accounting/controlling, cost forecasting and project accounting.