Lead Cost Controller - Decarb

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project cost management, reporting systems, processes, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely cost control, budgeting, forecasting, cashflow, progress reporting, performance analysis, and identification of actions required to maintain approved baseline targets.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and development for cost controllers, building capability and consistent performance across the team.
• Coordinate cost management activities within the broader Project Controls function, ensuring strong alignment with Planning and other control disciplines.
• Define and apply the project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to ensure consistency across systems, processes, and reporting.
• Support contracting and procurement activities, including review of contracts, purchase orders, payment certificates, and setup within PIMS and SAP.
• Manage month-end processes, including VOWD, accruals, cost allocations, and reconciliation across cost centres and WBSs.
• Forecast cost to complete, identify cost risks, and implement mitigation strategies to prevent overruns against baseline budgets.
• Deliver monthly reporting, variance analysis, earned value management (EVM) performance measurement, and contractor claim evaluations.
• Monitor, audit, and reconcile cost management systems and SAP data, escalating material variances and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships aligned with Fortescue’s values.