Project Cost Engineer

Responsibilities :

•  Support PM to align project budgets to as sold in appropriate systems
•  Supports estimating, estimates and/or verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labor, manufactured costs, suppliers invoices, timesheets, travel expenses..)
• Aligns with planning to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured
•  Maintain a register of potential cost risks
•  Maintain a register of actual and committed costs
•  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
•  Provides change order calculations to ensure cost estimates are accurate
•  Updates changes in appropriate systems to ensure costs are aligned to the current situation
•  Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
•  Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are tied to enable accurate cost/schedule management
•  Support project close out and claims
•  Provide support to tenders
  Candidate Requirements :
• 5+ years planning large turnkey projects
• 2+ projects providing cost controlling on large turnkey projects
• Lead planner on 2+ turnkey projects
• Cost estimating and forecasting
•  Project Accounting & Controlling
•  Scheduling
•  Local GAAP awareness
•  Data handling skills (Excel, SAP…)
•  Commercial awareness
• Communication (English language a must)
•  Proactive attitude
• Thorough and precise