The Project Controller position requires excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills. The Controller is the main point of contact for Project Managers regarding commercial and financial aspects and plays an integral role, supporting the Project Management team. This position will be based out of our corporate office in München. This role works closely with Project Management, Finance, and also interfaces with Sales, Engineering, and Supply Chain.
Responsibilities: - Execute project performance controlling measures such as costs, revenue, cash flow, margin controlling, re-calculate forecasts, analyze variances, utilization, calculate change orders etc.
- Support Finance to ensure accurate booking of the project financials including month closing, accruals etc.
- Support Finance as they carry out daily operations including invoicing, monitoring receivables, and following up on supplier invoices
- Prepare monthly financial reports and forecast for projects and prepares data for use by Project Management and Senior Management.
- Support Sales during offer preparation and sales phase regarding risk identification / mitigation as well as contract negotiations
- Support the projects regarding taxes, insurance, contract compliance issues, contractor and payroll
- Support project management during project execution regarding risk identification, mitigation and claim management and invoicing
- Be able to challenge the numbers and be pragmatic
- Assist Finance in year-end financial audits, as well as client audits
- Working through SAP Project Management software and the various departments responsible for overseeing, monitoring, and maintaining the business partner data entry and order management process from proposal number generation through completion.
- Enters initial and updated project milestones, and budgets
- Reviews capacities and critical dates with project managers to coordinate with the various departments and avoid conflicts.
- Monitors deadlines and the coordination of dates between the various departments
- If it becomes necessary to determine project priorities, then work with project manager to resolve conflicts or if necessary, escalate to determine priorities
- Responsible for assignment and maintenance of Business Partners and Proposal and Project numbers within the SAP system.
- Responsible for the preparation of routine project costing reports by working closely with members of the project team, Finance and Customer Service (Sales).
- Prepares tracking tools and tracks project metrics.
- Responsible for ensuring timely and accurate project information is available to the project team.
- To use reporting and information systems to maximize availability and effectiveness of information
- May be assigned to special projects or required to perform other duties not listed above, which may vary from time to time as determined by management, to meet company needs.