Cost Controller

**Cost Controller**

Join a collective of like-minded international experts including engineers, scientists, biologists, project managers, technical and business advisors and more. Leverage each other's strengths as you contribute to some of the world's most unique and challenging projects. Build diverse expertise that benefits your career, your colleagues, and our clients.

With approximately 55,000 talented people globally and 5,500 talented people based in more than 50 offices in Australia and New Zealand, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. Our purpose is simple, we exist to future proof our cities and our environment.

**Our Team**
- Join a team with a dynamic and diverse culture, who have consistently high engagement scores in our employee surveys.
- Focus on autonomy, endorsed by line and upper management.
- Collaborate with both your direct team and national colleagues.

**The Opportunity**

As a result of this growth, our Mining Infrastructure and Project Delivery team is seeking a Cost Controller within the Adelaide office. This position will engage your aptitude in project management and cost control to deliver multiple projects in our Mining Infrastructure and Project Delivery business.

The role of the Cost Controller is critical in providing high level support to the Project Manager in order to mitigate risk and facilitate delivery of multi-disciplinary projects on schedule and within budget.

**What you will do**:

- Understanding and tracking WSP project costs and cost to client.
- Assisting with the preparation, monitoring and updating of project delivery documentation including estimate at completion cost sheets and project files
- Project financial management and control including but not limited to:

- Earned Value Management
- Monitoring costs incurred against budget
- Financial tracking and reporting
- Variance analysis to identify project variances
- Assist Project Manager issuing monthly invoices
- Approving and tracking of creditor invoices to be paid
- Development of project work breakdown structures
- liaising with accounts payable to process prompt payments, credit card reconciliation, timesheet and expense management
- Scheduling, updating project schedules to align with completed activities and deliverables.
- Assist with tender preparation, track deliverables and RFQ
- Assisting the Project Manager manage multidisciplinary projects through the full spectrum of the project life cycle and delivering on time and to budget
- Managing the production of quality reports and documents
- Embedding Project Controls, Contracts Administration, Construction Management and Cost Planning into projects systems and processes

**What we will love about you**
- Typically 6 - 8+ years' experience
- Excel skills a must
- Previous administration and business support experience in a project management environment is desirable
- Financial management experience including budgeting and project controls
- Experience working in the mining sector or an engineering consultancy will be highly regarded but not essential.
- Ability to demonstrate a resourceful approach to work, displaying initiative and decision-making skills.
- Excellent technical writing skills with experience in proposal writing and technical reporting.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactive mindset and a self-starter

**Some of the many benefits we offer our employees include**:

- Flexible working hours and working from home
- Global mobility
- Parental leave & purchased additional annual leave
- Corporate employee discounts and offers
- Salary continuance insurance
- Wellness at work & social club
- Workplace giving /volunteering
- Employee reward & recognition program
- Professional and technical development opportunities

**Inspired by Diversity, Driven by Inclusion.**

Discover a forward-thinking culture that incorporates some conventional yet non-negotiable qualities—like respect, integrity and trust. We welcome to the table all perspectives, strengths, skills, creeds and genders because we know that diverse ideas breed extraordinary results.
- WSP supports a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply._

Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.

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