Are you our next Project Controller?

Job Description

• Cost Management Frameworks: Develop, maintain, and manage cost management frameworks, procedures, and tools to support project activities.

• Budgeting and Financial Tracking: Support finance teams with license budgeting and track, monitor, and report project commitments, value of work done (VOWD), and forecasts.

• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Assist in the preparation of standard project work breakdown structures for relevant project budgets.

• Cost Estimates: Prepare and collate full project cost estimates across all project phases.

• Issue Identification and Recommendations: Identify cost-related issues and provide recommendations for process improvements.

• Reporting: Assist with regular and ad-hoc reporting requirements. Support the completion of monthly cost reports for dedicated projects by working closely with the project team.

• Cost Risk Management: Support the estimating process to ensure that cost risks are identified and appropriately quantified.

• Contractor and Supplier Reporting: Review, analyze, and challenge cost- and study reports from suppliers and contractors, in collaboration with dedicated project control teams.

• Performance Monitoring: Monitor contractor progress and identify areas of poor performance through agreed KPIs, providing feedback to the Project Manager.

• Cost Management Meetings: Lead cost management meetings with contractors and internal departments involved in the cost process.

• Project Reviews: Prepare and contribute to project reviews for dedicated projects.

• System Maintenance: Maintain the cost management system to ensure accuracy and efficiency.

• Financial Reporting Interface: Act as the focal point for interfacing with the finance team to report on budget, monthly forecasts, and accruals.

 

Qualification Requirements

• MSc or BSc in Business Administration or a similar field

• 5-10+ years of relevant experience (early phase project experience is preferred)

• Fluent written and spoken communication skills in English

• Proactive approach to following up on deliverables and progress

• Highly organized and self-motivated with excellent planning and organizational skills

Duration: 28.02.2026

About MDE

When the right people connect, we create value.

MDE Group is a global recruitment company, specializing in finding and placing the greatest talents worldwide. MDE currently consists of 12 companies that offer consulting, staffing, recruitment services as well as offshore personnel. With our unique knowledge of both the local and the international market, we will connect employees and companies, so they both find exactly what they are looking for. MDE aims to contribute to people developing and to ensure that our customers achieve great value from our services. We first succeed when both clients and our candidates reach their goals, together.

Our mission is to deliver relevant expertise. The right person with the right competence, at the right place and time. So simple, yet so difficult!