Job Description Summary

At GE Vernova Grid Solutions, we are driving the energy transition with advanced grid technologies to build a more reliable and sustainable energy future. This role is responsible for monitoring, controlling, and forecasting project costs to ensure alignment with budget, progress, and financial targets, while working closely with project teams, finance, and planners. Join us to make a real impact, work on innovative projects, collaborate with a strong global team, and grow in a dynamic international environment with competitive benefits.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Maintains project cost to complete budgets in alignment with as sold position and in coordination with budget holders, consistently with actual progress and trend.
• Supports forecast estimation and verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labor, manufactured costs, suppliers’ invoices, timesheets, travel expenses).
• Drive and challenge budget at completion, with analysis through various means (earned value, productivity, cost ratio, market trends…). Validates accuracy of estimates.
• Develop mitigations / catch up plans in alignment with functional leaders and Project Manager.
• Aligns with project team and time schedule to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured and costs time phased.
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast.
• Communicates cost status / forecasts / risk to budget holders and drives / supports risk mitigation and cost out.
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status, budget deviations and root causes.
• Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are aligned, providing time phased cost forecasts for sales pacing.
• Reports on cost movement root causes impacting sales targets.
• Support disputes and analysis of claims.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in engineering (with financial awareness) along with 6+ years of experinece
• Advanced and demonstrated years experience of cost controls / project controls / project management on large & complex or turnkey infrastructure projects.
• Experience in risk management processes and tools.
• Knowledge of ERP systems is an asset (SAP preferred).
• Experience managing small teams within a large project is an asset.
• Project planning experience / good P6 planning software understanding is an asset.

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.

What we offer:

A key role in a dynamic, international working environment with a large degree of flexibility of work agreements

Competitive benefits, and great development opportunities - including private health insurance.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you are passionate about driving the energy transition and want to be part of a team that is electrifying the world with advanced grid technologies, apply now!

Apply Today and Be Part of the Change!

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