Lead Project Cost Controller

Job Description Summary

Make every project number count
Join the Project Controls team at GE Vernova and give project teams the cost insight they need to deliver energy transition projects on time and within budget. You will own the cost picture, explain it clearly, and help shape how the team manages cost.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Keep project cost-to-complete budgets aligned with the as-sold budget in our project systems.
• Verify actual costs to date, including materials, labour, manufactured costs, supplier invoices, timesheets and travel expenses. Support estimating.
• Maintain registers of cost risks and of actual and committed costs. Work with planners so forecast cost risks and the schedule stay linked.
• Review cost movements against scope, progress, previous forecasts and productivity factors, and validate estimate accuracy.
• Present cost status, forecasts, budget deviations and root causes at project and management reviews. Work with cost owners to reduce risk.
• Prepare change order calculations and record changes with an auditable history. Reconcile approved project financials with the books alongside the Finance Controller.
• Support project close-out and claims.

Qualifications

You are a finance or cost professional who enjoys turning project data into clear, trusted insight. You work well with planners, finance partners and project leaders.

Required

• A Bachelor's degree in finance or a cost management discipline, because this role requires formal training in financial principles to support audit-ready cost reporting
• Significant experience in cost control, finance or a related discipline in a project environment
• Knowledge of project finance and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems
• Understanding of risk management processes and tools

Preferred

• Experience with SAP
• Project planning experience or familiarity with planning software

Why GE Vernova

GE Vernova employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. We offer competitive benefits that support you and your family, and programmes that fit the way you live and work today. You will keep growing through on-the-job learning and development.

Additional Information

About Us

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it.

If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different.

Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.

Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.com