Dalian

 

 

In this position, you will be working under the direction of the F68 Project Controls Manager to implement and monitor policies and procedures that adequately reflect and control the financial condition of the construction project. Involvement will flow from early capital funding due diligence to final project closeout and capital settlement. You will be owning overall cost management responsibility for assigned scope, including budgeting, commitments, payments, forecasting (budget, spending and depreciation), and will be expected to prepare (or supervise preparation of) various internal and/or external financial reports. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

- Validating A/E and/or CM approaches to cost engineering and cost control in terms of process, systems and personnel

- Endorsing project cost systems of record

- Working closely with other members of the project team (particularly project management and procurement) to drive cost-optimized capital investment decisions as well as cash saving strategies

- Working with the contracts group to understand and influence contracting strategies and their effects on cost management and change control

- Working with the Project Manager, prepare various CPA funding requests at different stages of the project, ensuring completeness and consistency of format as may be directed by corporate management from time-to-time

- Ensuring alignment of project scope and funding at all stages of the project

- Preparing detailed commitment, expenditure and cumulative liability forecasts for management review and approval

- Monitoring and reporting actual status against same on a regular basis

- Reviewing and approving all proposed project commitments, ensuring comparison with estimated should-cost and budget

- Identifying and explaining any variances for management approval

- Tracking and monitoring all project commitments, ensuring correct cost coding, currency translation and others

- Attending miscellaneous project review, coordination and report-out meetings and take a proactive role in identification and highlighting of (a) deviations from agreed project scope and (b) potential cost savings

- Participating in and help drive value engineering exercises from time-to-time as agreed with program management

- Ensuring all deviations from agreed project scope (or other changed conditions) are expeditiously processed as construction changes of scope (CCOS), so that they may be presented to management for additional funding (BCOS) or otherwise dispensed with

- Ensuring that NO commitments of Company funds are made UNLESS appropriate funding is in place (by way of original CPA approval or subsequent BCOS and/or CPA amendment approval)

- Reviewing A/E and CM approaches to cost engineering and cost control (processes, systems and people)

- Continually review outstanding yet-to-buy scope and funding to ensure alignment and maximize accuracy and predictability of project cost forecasts

- Monitoring performance and rundown of AFC/AFU

- Working with the Company system team leads and/or FALs, the A/E, CM and other third party participants, ensure regular monthly detailed cost workgroup meetings are held to review all aspects of commitments, expenditures, and yet-to-buys, in order to develop and agree project cost forecasts

- Developing monthly project cost reports, including details of all budgets, commitments, expenditures, yet-to-buys and forecasts. Include details of all variances between budget and current forecast, and variances from previous to current forecast

 

You should possess a Quantity Surveying, Construction Economics, Construction Management or Engineering degree or equivalent. Additional qualifications include:

- Minimum Experience: Six plus years of large-scale, multidiscipline project estimating experience within engineering and/or construction organizations

- Microelectronic and/or wafer fab experience would be an added advantage

 

As a member of the Finance team, employees act as a full partner in making and supporting business decisions that are aimed at maximizing shareholder value. Company Finance has a strong focus on facilitating change and improvement both within finance and in the operations supported.