Lead Project Controller

Scheduling

• Develop tender schedules using the established tools and processes and challenges the team to ensure schedule risk is managed with a balance of competitive offering aligned to historical performance
• Develops and maintains the single project schedule representing the entire project by integrating inputs from all functions, units and third parties contributing to the project
• Ensure proper linkages in schedule to show all interdependencies between contributing parties
• Ensure functional owners sign off on commitments and are made accountable for their date
• Work collaboratively with other overall project planning team to ensure optimal alignment of schedule with overall schedule
• Delivers a high quality schedule aligned with global standards to ensure project is accurately represented
• Maintains schedule thru the entire project obtaining inputs from all project contributors
• Drives regular operating rhythm with project team to review schedule status and operating rhythm
• Challenges functional owners on forecast completion dates to ensure dates are realistic
• Provides schedule analysis to forecast schedule risk and opportunities using available tools and experience
• Provides look ahead, backlog and future late reporting with prioritizations to clearly communicate potential and real risk and drive the project priorities
• Generates what if” scenarios to optimize execution and works with project teams to evaluate feasibility
• Provides strategies to mitigate risks
• Drives functional owners to mitigate risks and follows up with functional owners on risk mitigation actions
• Provide and communicate regular status reporting
• Provides contractually required customer reporting and is able to communicate directly with customers on scheduling matters

• Cost Controlling

• Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
• Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
• Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
• Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
• Provide cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
• Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
• Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
• Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
• 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 and actions
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Provide time based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition

• Analyse all the risks and opportunities communicate clearly priorities and potential impacts

• Support change order analysis

• Support claim preparations