Lead Project Controller – Cost

at  BAE Systems

Job Title: Lead Project Controller – Cost
Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Up to £58,000 depending on skills and experience

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Comprehensive project controls experience demonstrated in a cost control capacity
• Excellent understanding of Project Controls processes including Project Reporting, EVM, Cost Management, Scheduling, Risk & Opportunity Management and Baseline Change Management
• Experience in using Project Controls toolsets for reporting such a Tableau, PowerBI
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex multiple data sources of management information and present to senior stakeholders with corrective actions
• Experience in using Cobra or similar cost control toolsets

Desirable:

• Experience of coaching other in project controls methodologies
• APM-Q or relevant degree qualification

• Facilitating project controls process deployment in support of high value projects across the full project lifecycle
• Applying your specialist understanding of project controls techniques and knowledge of project controls toolsets (i.e. EVM, Risk, Change) to produce project controls deliverables
• Organising the collation of programme performance metrics from various data sources to report against cost, schedule, milestone delivery and other KPIs and supporting the facilitation/chairing of meetings
• Providing support to the Project Managers / Control Account Managers to oversee cost, schedule and quality with associated data and metrics where required, as well as support to resolve emergent project issues and mitigate risk
• Performing/facilitating quarterly cost reviews (estimate at completion) and resource profiling process – being accountable for specific outputs and/or providing support to the process
• Supporting the risk and opportunity process on a project, including reviewing contingencies where required
• Guiding the way on various project outputs that require a high level of problem solving, professional knowledge and assessment such as customer reporting, collating finance, planning and cost outputs in to a consolidated view and message
• Helping manage costs, establishing compliance controls, measuring earned value, predicting performance, and achieving project success