Description
- Prepare and update the Direct Cost Budget twice per year, managing the Cost Control and the Quantity Surveying teams, and reporting to the Project Control Manager
- Gather information from departments to report the monthly progress of the project, putting together all the information and sharing it with the Finance Department
- Analyze the Monthly Project Direct Cost by comparing it with the forecasted budget, to identify deviations and propose improvements/adjustments to upper management
- Develop and implement KPIs including productivity, MO and CPI/SPI
- Work with the accounting team to review actuals posted vs. forecasts
- Lead the reporting and correct accounting of your allocated works on a monthly/quarterly basis i.e. internal and external (as required)
- Ensure supplier invoices related to your allocated works are processed on a timely basis
- Ensure timesheets are accrued and processed to project including any journal transfers for cost allocations
- Ensure subcontractor payments are processed on a timely basis against projects
- Ensure your allocated works have the correct cost accruals to adjusted costs on a monthly/quarterly basis.
- Contribute to the reporting and accounting of projects on a monthly/quarterly basis i.e. internal and external (as required)
- Investigate project variances against cost forecast and actual reporting and ensure project management are informed
- Confer with credit control regarding unpaid booked costs for your allocated works
- Compile information for internal and external auditors, as and when required
- Ensure compliance with procedures for managing and optimising financial information flows
- Collaborate with the various Project teams to ensure robust financial controls are in place to track project costs
- Analyze, with the operational staff, the differences highlighted by the monitoring between recorded expenses and spending entitlements; defining the causes and proposing corrective or remedial actions
- Be main point of contact and lead for all cost and accounting matters for your allocated works
- Continually review and improve current processes for project reporting
- Support the project in its objectives to ensure the JV meets and continually improves its commitment towards the payment charter
- Carry out ad-hoc additional duties, as required
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in accounting or any other relevant experience
- 5-8 years of experience as a mid-level manager in an administrative department accounting and cost control
- CA or CGA certification
- Advanced knowledge of Word and Excel
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Strong capacity for teamwork and excellent leadership skills
- Ability to manage accounting staff
- Initiative, resourcefulness and autonomy
- Highly adaptable and open to change
Why us?
- Annual gross compensation ranging from CAD 110,000 to CAD 130,000, depending on experience and profile
- 4 weeks of vacation & 3 emergency/sickness days paid
- Annual bonus
- Group Health Insurance (premium participation including virtual health care system)
- Wellness spending account
- Career development opportunities
- A cosmopolite and inclusive work environment
- Attractive and challenging project
