Project Cost Controller

1 week ago


Derby, Derby, United Kingdom Quest Global Full time

Quest Global is an organization at the forefront of innovation and one of the world's fastest growing engineering services firms with deep domain knowledge and recognized expertise in the top OEMs across seven industries.

We are a twenty-five-year-old company on a journey to becoming a centenary one, driven by aspiration, hunger and humility.


We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible, possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers.


As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all.

If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we're eager to hear from you.

The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:

  • Able to drive project teams to control the project
  • Analytical skills to use data to forecast outcomes
  • Clear communicator with strong communication and influencing skills
  • Primavera skills
  • Cost management skills
  • Ensure the project cost are managed with global standard tools and processes
  • Ensure budgeted values are aligned with historical performance
  • Reviews project schedule and progress to identify cost risks and opportunities
  • Reviews project scope evolution to identify cost risk and opportunities
  • Reviews functional execution and events to identify cost risks and opportunities
  • Provide cost analytics using project information and analysing cost and productivity trends
  • Own and drive the Budget Deviation Process with tools
  • Drives a regular cost operating rhythm to discussion risk and opportunities
  • Develops cost forecasts based on functional input and analytics, challenges functional estimates where needed
  • Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
  • Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to functional cost owners and drives/supports risk mitigation
  • Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status and actions
  • Aligns with Finance Controller to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
  • Provide time based cost forecasts to support revenue recognition

Desired Skills:

  • Good communication in English (oral & written) & Interpersonal skills
  • Customer focus ability to build and develop customer & supplier relationships
  • Organisational agility
  • Problem solving ability
  • Logical thinking
  • Effective time management
  • Results driven outlook

Job Type

  • Full Time-Regular

Experience Level

  • Mid Level

Total Years of Exp

  • 9+


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