Project Controller

*12 month contract*
*Hybrid working*
*Outside IR35*
*Experience of large scale Civil Infrastructure*

- Act, as part of a team of subject matter experts, to provide Primavera P6 EPPM & SAP Financial application knowledge
- Accountable for creating and maintaining project budget data including schedules, actuals and forecasts
- Responsible for analysing progress reported against the work schedules and produce reports on projects’ progress performance and forecasts
- Responsible for the controls a number of projects within the Programme, where the outputs of this work will be aggregated to provide programme level plans, budgets, schedules, forecasts and reports.

- Will manage the project controls of several projects simultaneously in the Programme to a cumulative value of circa £125m.
- Will work with multiple Project Managers and Programme Managers as well as managing the consultant supply chain (Commercial and Contracts Managers) to provide information and reports required to support Programme and Project Control activities and functions.
- Will lead the change control process, ensuring that changes are logged, assured, presented and implemented.

The Project Controllers principle accountabilities will be:

- Provide regular status reporting on key projects within the Programme, for any Financial Year to the Project Controls Manager and Programme delivery team for consumption by the Chief Asset Development Officer & Group Asset Management Directors.
- Responsibility for the update of information in the Capital Delivery Tracker (CDT), which is the current live overview of the Capital Plan.
- Liaison with Directors & business level approvers of both the CAPEX & GW process in order to track progress & unlock any approval issues or blockages within the system.
- Manage and ensure delivery of near term (3 month look ahead week by week) capital projects cash-flow forecasts for Finance.
- Manage and ensure delivery of up to date medium term (24 month rolling) forecast of capital projects cash-flow for capital programme Outturn.
- Manage and ensure delivery of longer term project and programme information to inform and update long term plans.
- Assist in the development, planning and control of a the overall Capital Expenditure plan covering one-year, five-year and ten-year business planning periods.
- Assist in payment tracking and cash-flow forecasting for accrual purposes.
- Work in conjunction with the Supply Chain team and Strategic Programme Management supplier to develop capital expenditure efficiencies from standardisation and work bundling opportunities.
- Manage and ensure delivery of auditing commercial management services and Contractors commercial management to ensure consistent high standards.
- Administering the change control process across the programme