Project Controller

**Description**

**Hitachi Rail** is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signaling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 14,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.

Accountabilities:

- Analyze financial results and monitoring the budgeting & forecast control cycle. Doing so you will be identifying potential financial risk areas and supporting the implementation of risk mitigating activities;
- Close teamwork with the Project Management team being involved in all the economic and financial activities;
- Actively participate in the monthly /quarterly / yearly closing process, in coordination with the stakeholders;
- Ensuring all commercial & financial reporting on monthly basis during the project phases, signalizing issues and opportunities;
- Driving the optimization of project cash flow and revenues while maintaining the accuracy of the project balance sheet, income statement and monthly/quarterly forecast;
- Coordinating all financial aspects of the project, including estimate at completion and related cost-to-complete, forecasted revenues and cash flow and risk and opportunities assessments, as well as ensuring alignment with other functions including project controls and planning/scheduling;
- Contract Management and Financial involvement with the Project Manager team and the Sales colleagues during project execution (eg. commenting T&Cs, review of offer calculations, preparation of all internal documentation and for the clients offer/orders);
- Ensuring compliance with internal guidelines/procedures and external regulatory requirements.

**Required Skills**:

- Experience in the area of Project Controlling and Contract Management, such as customer contract analysis, commenting contracts, project cost and margin analysis and/or project cost calculations;
- Experience in revenue recognition and understanding how the free-cash-flow of the company is composed / can be further improved;
- Knowledge on claim management, forecasting the main variances to analyse and predict the closing results of the projects themselves;
- Knowledge of Project Management basis;
- Experience with SAP (especially PS) is highly desirable;
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft Office (focus on Excel and Outlook);
- Outstanding attention to detail, accuracy and ability to multitask;
- A collaborative, solutions-oriented approach and strong written and verbal communication skills;
- Flexibility and adaptability according to specific requirements;
- Team Player, looking to add value to the organization and being well trusted partner of the colleagues and/or of the Management;

**Benefits**

**Hitachi Rail** employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including Competitive Pay, Medical Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, Life & Accident Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Savings Plan, and Paid Vacation. We also offer a number of Work/Life Programs such as Flextime and a variety of Training and Development opportunities.

It is our commitment at Hitachi Rail to create a diverse environment and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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