Controller
Alstom · Hornell, NY · 5 days ago
Finance$68k–$78k/yrFull-time
Your future role
Take on a new challenge and apply your financial expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside collaborative and dynamic teammates. You'll play a pivotal role in driving the financial health and cost performance of complex, multi-million engineering projects. Day-to-day, you’ll work closely with teams across the business (Project Procurement, Finance Managers, and Engineering teams), optimize material cost control, and proactively manage cost-to-complete targets and risk mitigation strategies, and much more.
We’ll look to you for:
- Partnering with Project Procurement & Finance Managers to optimize material cost control.
- Bridging budget, forecast, ROFO, and actuals, line-by-line, and identifying root causes of cost deviations.
- Owning and validating Tender BOM, Engineering, and Manufacturing BOM financials to support EAC, savings, and variance analysis.
- Monitoring cost evolution, inflation, indexation, and QCD deviations.
- Driving KPIs, cost reductions, tender support, and risk mitigation plans.
- Being the focal point for claims, material variances, and SAP-GSI cost data integrity.
- Proactively managing cost-to-complete, target tracking, and cost gap closure.
- Conducting EAC reconciliation and deep analysis of actuals by WBS.
- Supporting decision-making through advanced financial analysis and reporting.
- Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure financial success.
All about you
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, or other related business fields.
- Experience or understanding of industrial or manufacturing finance and controlling roles.
- Knowledge of cost control, budget management, and financial analysis.
- Familiarity with SAP, BI tools (e.g., QlikView, Ody.C), and Excel.
- Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills.
- An analytical mindset with a focus on cost performance and risk mitigation.
- Proficiency in monitoring and managing financial metrics like cost-to-complete and target tracking.
- Able to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including procurement and project managers.
- Resilience and adaptability in managing complex, multi-million engineering projects.
- A continuous learning mindset to stay updated on financial tools and processes.
Things you’ll enjoy
- Work with complex, multi-million engineering projects, leading cost performance and industrial controlling at the core of the project lifecycle.
- Progress towards becoming a high-impact finance professional with expertise in cost control, risk mitigation, and financial optimization.
- Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues.
- Contribute to innovative projects.
- Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries.
- Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning.
Compensation
$68k - 78k
Important to note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.