BU DESCRIPTION

Framatome is a major international player in the nuclear energy market recognised for its innovative solutions and value-added technologies for designing, building, maintaining, and advancing the global nuclear fleet. The company designs, manufactures, and installs components, fuel and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants and offers a full range of reactor services.
With 14,000 employees worldwide, every day Framatome’s expertise helps its customers improve the safety and performance of their nuclear plants and achieve their economic and societal goals.
Framatome is owned by the EDF Group (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI – 19.5%)
In the UK we are currently over 400 strong and our plans are to grow to 400-500 by 2025 through the development our UK nuclear service offerings

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Senior Cost Controller is responsible for leading the integrated cost reporting and associated artefacts across a portfolio of projects, as well as owning, and continuously improving, the tools and processes used to generate this and supporting outputs. These outputs will be one of the core project controls outputs in support of project management and customer/ business reporting requirements, and the role is responsible for ensuring that all outputs produced by all project controls staff that feed into this are of suitable quality and timely.
This role is expected to oversee and co-ordinate outputs within the cost control sub-discipline as well as engaging with other sub-discipline leads to develop tools that are truly integrated with wider project controls, and to provide expert advice on complex cost control queries. This role is expected to be highly autonomous and reports directly to the Head of Project Controls.
Main responsibilities:

Own the Cost Control sub-function within Project Controls by:

• Setting the standards and procedures for cost control across all projects;
• Develop the tools and templates used for cost control across all projects;
• Be responsible for identifying and correcting deviations from the above tools and procedures
• Be responsible for the alignment and upskilling of all staff (within and without the Project Controls function) in cost control through training, guides and communities of practice;

Co-ordinate and manage all activities within the cost control sub-discipline delivered through Cost Controllers and Project Controllers, such as:

• Manage the structure and content of SAP projects including creating projects and ensuring project & WBS adherence with business and project standards
• Utilise SAP to extract data and produce cost reports across the project portfolio, including centralised reporting such as the PFR/ CCR cycle and Cost of Non Quality (CoNQ);
• Provide interrogation, assurance and enhanced analysis of cost data on projects, providing consolidated assessments to project, programme and portfolio managers;
• Be actively involved in the development of estimates and costings for tender projects and maintain centralised supporting data such as norms and productivity rates;
• Support the implementation and production of project cost management activities and reporting including invoicing, variations, cost v budget/ price, EVM, cashflow
• Provide day-to-day cost control support and guidance across all elements of projects and the business

MINIMUM LEVEL OF EDUCATION REQUIRED

Bachelor

MINIMUM LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

Experienced

Please refer the Job description for details