Job Title:
Project Budget Controller
About the Role:
We are seeking a skilled Project Budget Controller to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on project and portfolio activities and KPIs.
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide project and portfolio level data to the design business management.
• Run standard and ad-hoc reports for the management team on projects and/or people as requested.
• Undertake specific project investigations as requested; perform root-cause analysis to determine why projects are not performing/suffering poor performance.
• Ensure timesheets are submitted in a timely manner.
• Collate resource utilisation data from staff timesheets.
• Undertake project reviews in real-time as part of the monitoring function, ensuring not going over-budget and costs allocated correctly.
• Invoice (including raising of credit notes), and monitor against forecast.
• Raise purchase orders and goods receipting.
• Identify budget releases at month end.
• Support with onboarding of new customers.
• Own the Focalpoint platform for managing projects in the design business, acting as key point of contact for any Focalpoint issues or requests for information by engineers/management.
• Understand all functionality in Focalpoint and advise on best practices for use of the platform.
• Support Engineers/TLs on Earned Value Analysis of their projects.
• Communicate best practice, e.g. project naming and timesheet reporting.