Description
Title: Financial Controller
Location: Crawley, UK
Duration: 3-6 months
P.S: IT Project management office with a finance background is needed.
Job Description:
Cost Management
- Must have experience of working with/in Finance department within Major IT delivery business.
- Must have 5 years experience in maintaining IT Portfolio/Project/Special Tasks (ie Small Projects) Budgets & monthly expenditures.
- Must have a minimum of 3 years. experience of working with SAP Financial software.
- Used to completing financial cost control activities against formal processes across full end to end IT delivery life cycle.
- Experience of Validating Project/Special Task Costs and Expenses on a monthly basis.
- Experienced in Forecasting and Monitoring all Project/Special Task Costs & expenses vs. the approved Project/Special Task Budgets and Contract amounts on monthly basis.
- Able to Analyse Project/Special Task Costs & Expenses and provide Financial status reports on monthly basis.
- Aware of Benefit Management with experience of drafting Benefits reports to Project Sponsors once projects live .
- Used to Maintaining/Updating Project Portfolio Change Register.
- Used to Collating monthly Time Recording details from PMs across all projects on monthly basis.
- Carry out financial elements only of Project Closure working with Finance.
Benefits Management
- Compile Earned Value Trends on quarterly basis
Desired
- Holds at least 5 years. Experience in Financial Cost Control Management within a leading IT delivery business.
- Must be familiar in Project cost management duties in a variety of roles/levels.
- Must be familiar with use of SAP Finance software set up and related operational related activities (Opex).
- Excellent excel spreadsheet skills.
- Must be experienced in drafting Portfolio/Project Cost Control processes for guidance and working with Corporate Financial Management.
- Must be experienced in IT Project cost estimating practices.
Tools
- SAP Finance Modules ( SAP v 7.04 preferred).
- Good/Excellent in MS Excel (incl. pivot tables) and MS Office Suite skills - including PowerPoint.