Cost Controller

Overview

Dodin Québec
, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction Grands Projets in Canada, is looking for a

Cost Controller

The Pickering Nuclear Generating Station refurbishment program involves designing and building a new deep-water intake in Lake Ontario to improve the plant's cooling system. This will involve:

• A 5 km-long tunnel, built by a pressurized TBM (10.15 m diameter slurry TBM);
• Two vertical shafts (onshore and offshore);
• An offshore modular intake structure, resting on the lake bed.

The project is distinguished by its proximity to an active nuclear site, requiring rigorous standards of safety, planning and coordination.

The Cost Controller is responsible for reporting on the cost budget and preparing accurate forecasts to compare with the projected budget. They will investigate variances and discrepancies and seek to correct them in collaboration with the relevant team, in addition to ensuring the processing of supplier invoices, timesheets and subcontractor payments.

• Prepare and update the Direct Cost Budget twice per year, managing the Cost Control and the Quantity Surveying teams, and reporting to the Project Control Manager
• Gather information from departments to report the monthly progress of the project, putting together all the information and sharing it with the Finance Department
• Analyze the Monthly Project Direct Cost by comparing it with the forecasted budget, to identify deviations and propose improvements/adjustments to upper management
• Develop and implement KPIs including productivity, MO and CPI/SPI
• Work with the accounting team to review actuals posted vs. forecasts
• Lead the reporting and correct accounting of your allocated works on a monthly/quarterly basis (i.e., internal and external as required)
• Ensure supplier invoices related to your allocated works are processed on a timely basis
• Ensure timesheets are accrued and processed to project including any journal transfers for cost allocations
• Ensure subcontractor payments are processed on a timely basis against projects
• Ensure your allocated works have the correct cost accruals to adjusted costs on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Contribute to the reporting and accounting of projects on a monthly/quarterly basis (i.e., internal and external as required)
• Investigate project variances against cost forecast and actual reporting and ensure project management are informed
• Confer with credit control regarding unpaid booked costs for your allocated works
• Compile information for internal and external auditors, as and when required
• Ensure compliance with procedures for managing and optimising financial information flows
• Collaborate with the various Project teams to ensure robust financial controls are in place to track project costs
• Analyze, with the operational staff, the differences highlighted by the monitoring between recorded expenses and spending entitlements; defining the causes and proposing corrective or remedial actions
• Be the main point of contact and lead for all cost and accounting matters for your allocated works
• Continually review and improve current processes for project reporting
• Support the project in its objectives to ensure the JV meets and continually improves its commitment towards the payment charter
• Carry out ad-hoc additional duties, as required

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in accounting or any other relevant experience
• 5-8 years of experience as a mid-level manager in an administrative department accounting and cost control
• CA or CGA certification
• Advanced knowledge of Word and Excel
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Strong capacity for teamwork and excellent leadership skills
• Ability to manage accounting staff
• Initiative, resourcefulness and autonomy
• Highly adaptable and open to change

• Annual gross compensation ranging from CAD 110,000 to CAD 130,000, depending on experience and profile
• 4 weeks of vacation
• Annual bonus
• Group Health Insurance (premium participation including virtual health care system)
• Wellness spending account
• Career development opportunities
• A cosmopolite and inclusive work environment
• Attracti…