Cost Controls Professional Intermediate

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow._ - Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow._ **Your Impact**: The incumbent will be responsible for controlling the project costs; This includes planning, developing, controlling, and forecasting the project’s budget. He / She will aim to minimize the deviation from the budget and ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget. 1. Qualifications for Cost Control Engineer - Graduate / Advanced degree in Engineering or other technical disciplines. - Experience in infrastructure sector or in construction industry is highly preferable, with exposure in site engineering, project management, coordination, procurement and construction workflows. - Knowledge in cost control tools and technics to drive /contribute project financial health, knowledge in Estimation, Project / Cost Controlling, Project Tracking, Project Scheduling - Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of interdependency of underlying cost drivers. - Demonstrate excellent understanding of the entire system of the business, relationship between productivity vs profitability. 2. Soft skills - Good team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills - Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with project stakeholders. - Ability to prioritize and organize assigned tasks in a timely manner. - Ability to follow company procedures and work independently without guidance. - Proactive and analytic, becoming an integrated part of the team, despite remote engagement. 3. Key Relationship and Reporting The incumbent will have relationships with one or more of the following: - Project Managers, Senior Project Managers, Manager of Projects - Project Controllers, Project Accountants, Commercial Analysts, Procurement 4. Software skills - Mastery in MS Excel and strong skillset in other MS Office software (Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook) - Proficiency in any other cost control tool - Knowledge in Planning software like MSP / Primavera, Power BI / Data Visualization software will provide an advantage. 5. Primary Job Functions - Support Senior Cost Controllers to develop Cost WBS structure and control budget for the project based on the approved estimate. - Support Senior Cost Controller to the change management as support to the project manager. - Support in monitoring of cost developments of engineering/vendors/contractors and develop the cost reports. - Analyze the project developments (including technical) and translate these into cost consequences and seek for opportunities to improve these objectives and report to Senior Cost Controllers. - Perform price estimation and price budgeting from contract commitment to fit the baseline program. - Provide planning and cost controlling support for all projects which includes variation reporting, monitoring of milestone progress to the preparation of customer billing processes, etc. - Ensure effective project implementation and utilize productive reports from the creation of - WBS with the use of project management system to monitor the status of the project. - Forecast costs and prepare project cost reports on monthly basis. - Perform project costing related reporting to the team and management’s review monthly to ensure that expenditures are kept within the project budget. - Provide cost control and planning advice to the project team as and when required. - Keep a complete record of change notices to the project. - Manage the financial part of the project, covering cost areas such as Forecasts, Actuals, Bookings and Commitments. - Performing and/or managing the analysis of cost and risks for projects with a focus on support of project management. - Will be assigned to project teams on request. - Accountable for investment project cost, and schedule and reports to the Project Manager of one or more projects during the planning and execution phase. - The position controls the entire life cycle of any investment project. **Here’s What You’ll Need**: