Project Controller

The organisation

For the office of our client in the The Hague area, the Netherlands, we are currently looking for a Project Controller. The Project Controller works within the Project Control Department, which provides planning and scheduling expertise and cost analysis reports detailing the company’s (financial) performance. The Project Controller supports projects on planning and cost control process.

The position

• Provide day to day finance and administrative support to the project teams;
• Prepare monthly forecasts of expected costs and revenues for outstanding parts of projects, discuss with Project Managers and distribute;
• Analyse and explain the main deviations from project budgets;
• Supply the Treasurer with a monthly cash flow overview of costs and revenues (actual and forecast);
• Assist Project Managers in the preparation of variation order requests, internal budget revisions; and the initiation of invoices to clients;
• Regulate the timely and correct invoicing to clients and follow up on overdue receivables;
• Control the correctness and completeness of all booked commitments and invoices in co-operation with Project Managers and departments;
• Initiate and co-ordinate improvements specifically related to project administration;
• Prepare project financial close out reports;
• Translate the tender schedule into the project schedule;
• Co-ordinate seasonal schedule modifications in co-ordination with the seasonal schedule planner;
• Initiate the onshore scope planning and co-ordinate input from disciplines, foreign offices and/or subcontractors;
• Issue initial baseline schedules internally for review and/or approval;
• Establish and maintain project planning and progress reporting for assigned projects.

Candidate profile

• MSc/BSc degree in Business Administration or Accountancy, or BSc/MSc degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering;
• Minimum 2 years’ planning and cost control experience, preferably in an offshore environment;
• Knowledge of accounting;
• Knowledge of project management structures, precedence networks and resource planning;
• Experience with planning software, preferably with AMS Real Time Projects;
• Good command of the English language, both written and spoken;
• Willingness to travel.

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