Lead Project Controlling activities across the whole project scope in multiple countries, partnering with country finance team in charge of Projects statutory scope. Be the Project co-pilot to Project Director, supporting and challenging him, ensuring optimized financial performance on the overall consolidated project while ensuring the project is run in a full financial compliance.
Liaise with Corporate, Finance & Control functions to help in the follow up of financial performance of project execution: Legal, Tax, Treasury, Solution Risk Managers, Contract Managers, Contract administrators, and Finance Business analysts.
As business partner during project Selling and Execution phases, support and challenge Project Manager in all relevant projects aspects with close focus/follow up on the finance activities (Revenue recognition, Margin, Cash, Tax, …) in order to improve project financial performance.
As business partner for tender leader to support and challenge the financial aspects for new opportunities as well with captured lessons learned from executed projects
Report and monitor financial performance of the project (project financial reporting including closing tasks, cost-to-complete forecasting, project risk provision follow-up, etc, ensuring full reporting compliance with IFRS 15 requirements).
Ensure proper management and financial monitoring of projects risks & opportunities, ensuring effective follow-up with each Project Function and being a force of proposal for potential corrective actions plans as needed.
Lead monthly Project performance analysis and Rolling Forecast activities in close collaboration with Project Director and Project Support teams. Lead financial section of REL5 meeting, ensuring proper representation of project financial performance, associated risks & opportunities.
Be the Single Point of Contact towards all internal stakeholders (Global Customer Project / Global Customer Project Ops / Operations / Business Units / Corporate) related to project controlling activities and external bodies (External Auditors).
Ensure proper tracking and reporting of project non quality costs to enable relevant margin deviation analysis, liaising with Project Functions and Project Director to identify potential needed corrective actions.
Implementation of all project controlling relevant rules, methods, processes and tools in accordance to Global Project Controlling requirements.
Provide coaching (being Referent) & induction to the new Project Controller, Cost Controller and other functions
Referent of the projects business towards Global Customer Project organization & Cluster
Qualifications
5 to 10 years’ experience in Finance & Control preferably in Project environment
Experience as Finance Business Partner in Project environment
Experience in a Multi-cultural team environment is a plus
University and/or Business School either Engineering, Economics, or commercial)
Strong communication skills to drive high performance and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
Strong analytical skills to handle complex matters in a synthetic way
Skills
Commercial Accounts
Engineering
Economics
Finance
Functions
Accounting & Finance
Job Overview
Job Type:
Full-Time
Company
Schneider Electric
18 active jobs
Industry:
Automotive
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