Within our Project Planning and Control Competence Area (PPC CA), the Lead Project Controller is responsible for financial, budget, cost planning and control activities for two Departments – Technical and Scientific Support (TSS) and the Operations and Support to Users (OPS).

In this role, the successful candidate will be supported by a small team of talented Project Controllers and will be collaborating closely with our core technical teams across the organisation. She/he will lead all activities that ensure that budget and financial planning activities for maintenance and operations are correctly performed, and will act as main responsible for budget implementation and control.

• Relevant experience, preferably in an engineering environment with multi-years projects, in project planning and control activities and in managing resource allocation;
• First experience of team management, including planning and monitoring of activities and keeping critical skills up-to-date;
• Proven knowledge and practice of administrative processes based on ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and strong MS Excel ability;

• Proactivity and strong capability for analytical thinking and seeing the big picture while maintaining a focus on details;
• Very good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to apply these to interact with management and stakeholders as well working within, and across, teams;
• Experience working in a matrix-based organisation would be an advantage.