Job Description Summary
Become part of a winning team and help to deliver the Green Energy transition.
In Project Controls, our goal is to ensure the right rigor around schedule and cost management processes to deliver projects on-time and within budget.
With focus and rigor around tools, processes, operating rhythm, and people, here you shall have the opportunity to learn, contribute and excel in one of the best Project controls functions in the industry.
Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you'll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.
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Job Description
Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Overall:
- Maintain alignment of project cost to complete budgets with as sold in appropriate systems
- Supports estimating and verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labor, manufactured costs, suppliers' invoices, timesheets, travel expenses.)
- Aligns with planning to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured
- Maintain a register of potential cost risks
- Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
- Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
- Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
- Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status, budget deviations and root causes
- Provides change order calculations to ensure cost estimates are accurate
- Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation including the auditable history of budget deviations and root causes
- Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
- Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are tied to enable accurate cost/schedule management
- Support project close out and claims
Qualifications & Experience:
Educational Requirements
- Degree qualified either in finance or cost management related discipline
Desired Knowledge & Experience
- Demonstrated years of experience in cost control, finance or a related discipline, working in a project environment
- Project finance understanding with knowledge of ERP systems (SAP preferred)
- Risk management processes and tools understanding
- Project planning experience / planning software understanding an advantage
About GE Grid Solutions:
At GE Grid Solutions we are electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies. As leaders in the energy space our goal is to accelerate the transition for a more energy efficient grid to full fill the needs of tomorrow. With a focus on growth and sustainability GE Grid Solutions plays a pivotable role in integrating Renewables onto the grid to drive to carbon neutral. In Grid Solutions we help enable the transition for a greener more reliable Grid. GE Grid Solutions has the most advanced and comprehensive product and solutions portfolio within the energy sector.
Why we come to work:
At GE Renewable Energy, our engineers are always up for the challenge - and we're always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you'll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you'll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.
What we offer:
A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements
Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No