Senior Project Controller
Based Crawley or Bristol – hybrid working – this role involve travel within Europe to other Thales partners
Are you an inquisitive individual that likes to identify risks and opportunities and solve problems? Are you looking to apply your project controls or accounting skills to a new challenge, working on a number of large exciting international projects?
What the role has to offer:
What can we offer you?
Our offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;
Our Opportunity
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Project Controller to join Thales Above Water Systems (AWS) who provide integrated combat management systems and services for naval surface ships in the UK and internationally.
You will be responsible for ensuring strong project controls across the program and ensure that data from the controls is interpreted and clearly presented as actionable information for Program Leadership and Senior Management decision making. In particular, you will ensure that all contracts within the program have a robust Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Performance Management Baseline (PMB) and strong financial control covering the control of costs (actual costs, ETC, EAC, cost variances and their root causes, risk allocation and movement in provisions) in line with Thales accounting rules and IFRS 15. You will work closely with the involved project managers, project planners and financial accountants.
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About You
We are looking for an experienced project controller who would like to broaden the experience into finance/ or an accountant wanting to gain more experience within project control together with the following:-
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