Cost Controller

Join a company passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. With more than 65 years of business and technical expertise in mining, energy, and infrastructure, our 10,000 colleagues in 150 countries work toward bettering the industries in which we operate. With practical solutions that are safe, innovative, and sustainable, we think globally while acting locally.

About the role

Join our Project Delivery Group (PDG), a dynamic team of professionals passionately committed to world-class project delivery across the globe. PDG helps clients reach their business goals through a range of strong technical capabilities, ensuring world-class project delivery through the skills of our people, methodologies, governance, and systems. Our engineering, project management, and construction disciplines ensure safe, efficient, and sustainable delivery of projects globally across the metals and mining, infrastructure, and energy sectors. We manage our clients’ entire project lifecycle from studies to building assets, operating the assets, and developing efficiencies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project cost information, planned and actual cost, and commitment schedules.
• Oversee trends and changes to the project budget and forecast cost estimates.
• Provide estimates for project and purchase order/contract funds authorization along with variation statements of actual versus budget commitments.
• FEL3 data verification and set-up planning.
• Finalize coding of all detailed estimate line items using baselined project control budget (confirmed by Lead Cost Controller) to establish package budgets.
• Project schedule monitoring and updates.
• Using project schedule and progress reports: obtain progress info and generate data and curves for each cost profile.
• Establish, with the assistance of the Lead Cost Controller, asset management methodology based on client asset management philosophy (asset register).
• Produce asset capitalization report in accordance with client requirements.
• Assign budget for procurement packages, perform budget reconciliation for scope and pricing, and produce reconciliation statements.
• Record and maintain commitments based on procurement contracts, contract amendments, contract change notices, and PO revisions.
• Attend periodic reviews and establish and maintain forecasts for all packages, ensuring full coding based on EPCM status report, expenditures, and project changes/trends.
• Forecast project contingency requirements, escalation, forex, and currencies.
• Import detailed actual cost and commitment data into cost system and run complete detailed baseline cost report by package.
• Participate in the trending and change management process and incorporate approved trends into the project estimate at completion.
• Update and maintain budget with approved PCNs.
• Produce and review with Lead Cost Controller cost report and analyze variances.
• Generate data and curves for each cost profile (baselines and periodic updates).
• Update budget, commitment, forecast, payment, and cost statement for monthly report.
• Obtain progress info from EPCM Controller and update EPCM status report.
• Attend periodic reviews and establish and maintain forecasts for all packages.

Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in engineering or related discipline or appropriate project-related experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Cost Controller in a multidiscipline project environment.
• Sound technical knowledge in a multi-discipline environment.
• Good knowledge of budgeting, forecasting final costs, cash flows, and estimating.
• Overview of procurement, contracts, quantity surveying, planning, scheduling, and engineering processes and procedures.
• Working knowledge of estimating and tendering processes.
• Good knowledge of project management principles.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Long-term career development.
• Opportunity to work with great people and make a difference.
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions.