project Finance Controller

pAre you looking to kick start your career? Or are you looking for the next challenge? Then this position is meant for you! In this role you make impact as a financial business partner. You work closely with Project Managers and Department Directors. By working intensively together in both the Proposal phase and the Execution phases of projects, you are able to add value to the successful execution of projects. What will you do As a Project Controller you work alongside project managers to contribute, influence, and mitigate risks of projects. You are also indispensable for our line management. You support them with financial analyses for the advisory group on a wide range of topics, such as: project results, working capital, portfolio analysis, services & clients, review the P&L on actual versus budgeted cost, future workload versus capacity etc. You will use the company's Project Health Check application, which generates project performance information. This will help you to look backwards and more often forward, to provide analysis for decision making and project performance improvement purposes. Furthermore, you will: • Support the Business Unit Controller in delivering both regular and limited ad-hoc reporting and analyses
• Cultivate effective relationship with all relevant business customers such as project managers, line management and other stakeholders
• Challenge the proposal manager during the proposal phase of non-routine tenders on financial and risk related topics like strategic fit, risk/reward balance, pricing, invoicing, cash flow, (international) tax, currency risks and pre-financing
• Pro-actively signal areas of improvement and challenge project managers on non-resolved project issues with a potential impact on the financial results (e.g. on forecasted results)
• Discuss identified areas of improvement with project managers and flag potential areas of concern that project managers need to communicate to line management
• Carry other relevant duties the Finance line manager requests, such as participating in improvement teams/cooperation within Finance team You will be working mostly independently and determine your own priorities. We expect and stimulate you to be self-steering, which does not mean that you are on your own. You will be working in a great team with professionals and will receive on the job training, coaching and support from our Business Unit Controller and your Project Control colleagues./p