Project and Services Business Finance Controller

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This position is for a Project and Services Business Finance Controller in Singapore, to lead Project Controlling activities across the whole project scope in multiple countries, partnering with the country finance team in charge of Projects' statutory scope. You will be the Project co-pilot to the Project Director, supporting and challenging the Director, ensuring optimized financial performance on the overall consolidated project while ensuring that the project is run in a full financial compliance.

• Liaise with Corporate, Finance & Control functions to help in the follow-up of the financial performance of the project execution: Legal, Tax, Treasury, Solution Risk Managers, Contract Managers, Contract Administrators, and Finance Business Analysts.
• Act as business partner during the project Selling and Execution phases, support and challenge the Project Manager in all relevant projects' aspects with a close focus/follow-up on the finance activities (Revenue recognition, Margin, Cash, Tax...) in order to improve the project financial performance.
• Act as business partner for the tender leader to support and challenge the financial aspects for new opportunities as well as with captured lessons learned from the executed projects
• Report and monitor the financial performance of the project (project financial reporting including closing tasks, cost-to-complete forecasting, project risk provision follow-up etc, ensuring full reporting compliance with IFRS 15 requirements).
• Ensure proper management and financial monitoring of projects' risks & opportunities, ensuring effective follow-up with each Project Function and being a force of proposal for potential corrective action plans as needed.
• Lead the monthly Project performance analysis and Rolling Forecast activities in close collaboration with the Project Director and Project Support teams. Lead the financial section of REL5 meeting, ensuring proper representation of project financial performance, associated risks & opportunities.
• Be the Single Point of Contact for all internal stakeholders (Global Customer Project / Global Customer Project Ops / Operations / Business Units / Corporate) related to project controlling activities and external bodies (External Auditors).
• Ensure proper tracking and reporting of project non quality costs to enable relevant margin deviation analysis, liaising with Project Functions and the Project Director to identify potential needed corrective actions.
• Implementation of all project controlling relevant rules, methods, processes and tools in accordance with Global Project Controlling requirements.
• Provide coaching (being Referent) & induction to the new Project Controller, Cost Controller and other functions
• Referent of the projects' business towards Global Customer Project organization & Cluster

• 5 to 10 years' experience in Finance & Control preferably in project environment
• Experience as a Finance Business Partner in project environment
• Experience in a multi-cultural team environment is a plus
• University and/or Business School in either Engineering, Economics, or commercial)
• Strong communication skills to drive high performance and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills to handle complex matters in a synthetic way