Project Controller
Current• Business partner to provide clear sound advice and reporting to key project personnel. • Planning and budgeting.• Project overhead and capital expenditure, conduct regular meetings with cost centre managers and Project Managers to discuss actual spend, challenge key variances and forecast review on a monthly basis.• Work with Head of Planning & Resourcing to provide monthly input into forecasting, budgetary control and long term planning.• Develop and produce monthly dashboards/stream lead status reports to provide analysis into planned, live and delivered projects. Reports to Management and to SteerCo.• Understanding of project lifecycle from initiation to implementation.• Lead business case reviews to ensure that standards are based on realistic and viable cost assessment.• Ensure that future BAU impacts from projects are communicated to the relevant Controllers so that these are accurately captured and reported.• Monitor business cases benefits and ensure that relevant performance information and delivery risks are regularly reported to the BoM.• Compile and advise on financials for the IAS Finance Platform Project and also for other emerging HQ Global Programmes. • Understand project cost drivers and undertake scenario modelling during project pre-implementation phases.• Key contact with HQ Controlling for IAS Finance Platform Projects queries/advice requests.• Develop and maintain monthly overheads reports based on SAP results and ensure that material variances from budget are adequately explained.• Process project and contractor month end and year end journals in SAP to ensure that the costs by project, cost centre, account code and period are correct.• SAP internal orders and project expenses GL reporting.• Completion of Projects Portfolio financials for the monthly Management Information Report (MIR pack).• Timely submission to HQ of annual budgets and Planning Round (5 year forecast).• Regularly update Controlling procedures.
