Project Controller

Reports To

Financial Project Control Manager

Key Purpose of Role

To ensure the effective financial control of various designated projects & bids.

Key Tasks

Costing & Bidding

· Operate as finance lead on bidding activities. This involves reviewing & validating the bid costings that have been prepared by Engineering. Ensure that associated financial criteria are correctly applied (e.g. foreign currency, customer approved rates, profit margins, taxation, provisions & contingencies).

· Work with Bid manager to determine appropriate milestone payment plans to ensure most favourable cash position.

· Assist bid managers with bid presentation pack preparation.

· Work with Bid team to ensure compliance to the Bid Process

Project Control

· Working closely with project managers to ensure financial objectives are met and to play a key role within the project decision making process whilst striving to act as the “CFO” of the project.

· Regular review of project actual costs, commitments and forecasts with the Project team & project managers, in conjunction with the project schedule.

· Regular review of overall financial project health and steer of recovery actions (e.g. cash, debtors, in year financial trading position).

· Presentation of financial status in relevant management reviews.

· Regular review of the project risk register ensuring a strong risk management culture and financial link.

· Work across functions to resolve queries, mitigate issues and ensure project data is of the highest quality.

· Providing required management accounting project data according to the reporting schedule of the business. Includes sales, profit & cash flow monthly / quarterly forecasting.

· Management of all customer financial reporting requirements & interaction with customer’s financial / reporting tools for both bids and projects.

· Support to any required internal / external project related audits.

· Taking an active role in identifying and delivering improvements to processes within finance and the business (e.g. assisting with collection of cost of non-quality data)

· Ad-hoc requests from team leader.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications

ACCA / CIMA / ACA or related degree would be desirable.

Experience

Proven and demonstrable experience in a relevant role.

Experience within a project-related (IFRS 15) environment covering both costing, bidding and program delivery.

Experience within a dynamic and fast paced organisation.

Experience within a Engineering / Manufacturing industry.

Knowledge & Skills

· Positive attitude and strong work ethic

· Excellent organisational, analytical and team working skills.

· Flexible and able to multi-task; managing a number of different bids and projects simultaneously and being able to adapt to changing priorities.

· Solid understanding of finance & applicable project accounting standards.

· Excellent inter-personal & communication skills – both written and verbal.

· Able to develop good working relationships with key people in the business.

· Ability to use various Microsoft tools (e.g. Excel, Power point, Dynamics, Data Warehouse, Share point). A high level of Excel skill is required.

· High level of concentration and attention to detail with ability to sense check.

· Knowledge of S4 Hana (Public Cloud) would be advantageous but not essential.

Location

· Guildford, Surrey

Other

· The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain a UK national security clearance