Job description
Company Description
Within Western Australia, Sodexo is responsible for the operations, maintenance, and refurbishment of non-process infrastructure to clients within the mining and oil & gas sector. Sodexo plays a critical role in ensuring the resource sector can operate by providing quality catering, hospitality, and facilities maintenance services.
We are currently seeking a Project Cost Controllers to join our team in Balcatta in a full time, permanent role. These roles are hybrid opportunities with the 3 days working in the office and 2 days working from home.
The main duties will include:
- Establishing and maintaining accurate cost control systems
- Tracking and reporting project costs against budget, highlighting variances and risks
- Supporting forecasting, cashflow management, and reporting to project leadership
- Reviewing and analysing cost data from subcontractors and project managers
- Proactively managing and assessing scope changes to ensure cost impacts are understood and controlled
- Assisting and leading end-of-month tasks such as posting journals and reconciling General Ledger (GL) report
This is not a project accounting role. We’re seeking an experienced professional with a background in major projects who can navigate complex, multi-discipline environment and provide meaningful insights to leadership.
The successful applicants will be a self-motivated, highly organised professional with strong communication skills, who can collaboratively work with the Project Team to undertake ongoing analysis on costs, revenue, and profit per project, prepare monthly billing files, and coordinate purchase requisitions (purchase orders) and invoice payments for subcontractor services.
To be considered you must have:
- Degree and/or experience in finance or accounting will be highly regarded
- Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills
- Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to manage competing priorities and commit to deadlines
- Effective organisational skills
- Proven experience on major resources projects and/or large-scale infrastructure projects
- Strong understanding of project scope and the ability to track and control
- Proficiency in cost systems and reporting tools
- Self-starter with a proactive approach to problem solving
- Ability to communicate complex information and data in a clear and concise manner
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience in leading, coaching, and instructing junior staff
- Strong teamwork abilities with eagerness to support colleagues and share knowledge
What can we do for you?
- Sodexo is an employer that promotes and encourages growth and personal develop while working in a supportive, inclusive, and high preforming team
- The opportunity to work on one of the world’s biggest facility management contracts
- A true commitment to a ‘family first’ approach to work.
This is an opportunity to join a high preforming team within a global business and an industry leader in the delivery of operations, maintenance, and refurbishment of non-process infrastructure to our clients. If you want to join an employer that promotes and encourages growth and personal develop while working in a supportive, inclusive, and high preforming team then please click Apply and send through your resume.
