Project Controller
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead independent financial management of projects from bid to close, collaborating with Project Managers and Contract Managers to ensure compliance with group standards. Build cost models, assess financial viability, and support Go/No Go decisions during the bid phase. Attend project handovers, review contract terms, and configure ERP systems for billing plans and revenue schedules. During delivery, lead quarterly financial reviews, analyze variances, update cost-to-complete, and optimize billing milestones for improved cash timing. Manage month-end close activities, chase overdue payments, monitor bonds, and respond to audit requests. Verify final settlements at close-out and participate in lessons-learned reviews. Requires project finance experience, strong analytical rigour, and comfort with complex datasets.
Required Qualifications
- Project finance experience
- Contract literacy
- Comfortable with billing structures, revenue recognition terms, and risk allocation
- Analytical rigour
- Confident with forecasts, variance analysis, and large datasets, extracts insights from complex datasets, and proposes appropriate solutions
- Organisation under pressure
- Manages multiple projects concurrently against hard month-end deadlines, with focus effort on value-adding activities
- Independent judgement
- Makes sound financial calls without close supervision
- Communication & influence
- Able to present financial information clearly & directly to operational teams, management, and external auditors
- ERP project finance modules
- Excel
Desired Qualifications
- Engineering, consulting, or professional services background
- Power BI or equivalent
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