Cost Controller - Sotralink

Webuild is a global construction player specialized in building large works and complex infrastructure for the sustainable mobility, hydroelectric energy, water, green buildings and the tunnelling sectors.
Webuild is the expression of 120 years of engineering experience applied in 50 countries, in five continents, thanks to the talent of 91,000 people from over 120 nationalities. With a total backlog reaching €65 billion (Consolidated Financial Results at June 30, 2024), Webuild is a group guided by the passion for building and the pursuit of excellence, which renewed its commitment to building a sustainable future by applying its know-how to build innovative and valuable works.
 

Webuild is hiring a Cost Controller who will work in the financial control team of the Sotralink Project (Sotra Connection), one of the most significant Norwegian infrastructural interventions, which is being carried out as a PPP, to improve the Bergen-Sotra Island connection.

The work foresees constructing a new road system measuring approximately 9 km, including over 12 km of tunnels, bridges and viaducts. The project presents high-level geo-technical and tunnelling content, with rock excavations in a complex environmental context. Webuild participates as industrial partner in designing and building the work, in an international highly structured context.

The resource will be involved in supporting cost control, economic-financial analysis and work advancement monitoring activities, particularly referring to underground works and geotechnical matters related to the project.

The role is a professional growth opportunity in a structured international context, closely working with the Cost&Risk Control, Operation&Risk Control, Engineering and Production teams.

Main responsibilities:

•            Supporting the preparation of the project budget and its monitoring in time

•            Analysis and control of site direct and indirect costs, focusing on the tunnelling and underground works construction activities

•            Monitoring the work's physical and economic status (cost vs progress)

•            Supporting drawing-up of the project's periodic reporting

•            Analysing the differences between planned and end costs

•            Collaborating with the Geo-technical Engineering, Production and Procurement Teams to correctly value activities in financial terms

•            Supporting managing variants, claims and change orders

•            Using the most used cost and project planning tools

•            Industrial costs control and planning process connected to creating works, ensuring a systemic outlook and effectiveness, coordinating with the Operations Controllers.

•            Activities aimed at promoting a comparison and the convergence between the analysis of the industrial effectiveness and the Group's economic-financial indicators

•            Preparing the Cost Control summary reports and sending them to General Management in accordance with the defined timing.

•            Promoting the continuous improvement of processes, methods and tools, with the aim of cost control and project control transformation

Requirements:

•            Degree (three-year degree or MsC) in Geo-technical Engineering, Civil Engineering - geo-technical address, Infrastructural Engineering or similar

•            Basic knowledge of:

Applied Geotechnics

Tunnelling and underground works

Infrastructure-related construction methods

•            Project financial control related themes interests

•            Knowledge of financial and accounting instruments;

•            Good use of Excel and financial management software;

•            Prone for teamwork and to communicate effectively;

•            Excellent Italian;

•            Good English; Knowing other languages is a plus;

•            Available to move abroad and motivated towards an international career.

Cross skills:

•            Interested in complex international construction sites

•            Excellent analytical and attention-to-detail skills

•            Precision, reliability and capable of working with numbers

•            Prone to team work and to engaging with technical interlocutors

•            Motivation, flexibility and with a strong learning desire

What we offer

•            You will be working in a significant international project 

•            A structured growth path in the project's Cost&Risk Control field

•            Training-on-the-job within a highly-specialized context

•            A job that will place you in direct close contact with senior Cost&Risk Control, Operation&Risk Control, Engineering and Production professionals

•            Payment package and contractual conditions in line with Webuild's international mobility policies

Webuild is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applications for vacant positions will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, age, disability or beliefs.