About the Role
The role focuses on providing centralized cost control, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting support across all CPO projects and departmental initiatives. The aim is to ensure consistent cost management, performance monitoring, and executive reporting, enabling effective financial oversight in all activities.
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Key Activities, Responsibilities & Accountability
- Lead cost control activities across all assigned projects and department portfolios.
- Develop, maintain, and monitor project budgets, forecasts, commitments, and expenditures.
- Prepare and consolidate monthly department cost reports, dashboards, and management presentations.
- Monitor project cost performance and identify cost variances, trends, and potential risks.
- Support the preparation of annual budgets, business plans, and periodic forecast updates.
- Coordinate with Project Managers, Project Controls, Finance, Contracts, and Engineering teams to ensure cost data accuracy and consistency.
- Review project funding requirements and monitor budget utilization.
- Develop cost performance indicators and reporting metrics for management decision-making.
- Maintain project cost breakdown structures, cost coding, and reporting standards across projects.
- Support Earned Value Management (EVM), cash flow forecasting, and Estimate at Completion (EAC) development.
- Provide cost analysis and recommendations to improve cost efficiency and budget performance.
- Support executive-level reporting, governance meetings, and portfolio reviews.
- Ensure alignment between project schedules, progress measurements, and cost reporting.
- Maintain cost control procedures, templates, and reporting tools for all departmental projects.
- Support audits, management reviews, and corporate reporting requirements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Finance, Cost Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years of cost control, project controls, budgeting, and forecasting experience on large capital projects, infrastructure, EPC, or major construction programs.
