EMEA Project Control Manager

Business Unit: Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.

Job Details: This role is part of our Cubic Transportation Project Control team and partners with the global team on revenue, earned value, cost and change management for complex, large-scale projects in a dynamic environment; strategizing with other business functions to increase inter-department efficiency. This role typically works under limited supervision and will be responsible for managing a local Project Control team ensuring continuous analysis and forecasting improvements and some direct project work. This function is responsible for ensuring accuracy and completeness of the financials related to treasury (cash), financial planning and analysis (reporting), financial management (revenue & cost), and supporting regulatory reporting.

• Provides continual performance assessments, proactive analysis, and mitigation strategies to facilitate timely corrective actions and preserve company financial goals.
• Serve as a key point of contact for other departments and the global Project Control team; ensuring timely and clear communication regarding project status, risks, and changes.
• Help implement and maintain processes and tools to manage project costs, schedules, and risks supporting compliance and continuous improvement.
• Able to concisely identify, summarize and extract key issues from complex contractual arrangements for revenue value and timing.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; this role will present project financials for operational and strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills, culturally aware with a willingness to share knowledge, coach and collaborate effectively with individuals and other departments.
• Coaches and develops direct reports to ensure effective financial presentations, variance analyses, and project controls to all levels of the business.
• Reviews staff work product for quality, accuracy, and utility to assure quality and alignment with company policies, GAAP and ASC revenue recognition.
• Develop, forecast, and manage project budget allocation, revenue and cash flows, and costs directly for projects and with the team.
• Understands and works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors and provides solutions to issues in creative and effective ways.
• SAP and other system tools are used for budgeting, forecasting, and project management.
• Supports project operations team by monitoring and analyzing project costs, identifying variances, and working with the team to address them.
• Participate in solving problems, monitoring risk mitigation strategies and execution of risk management processes with the project operations team.
• Ensure information integrity for project status, contract values and estimates to completion as represented by project/contract managers.
• Supports the development and review of detailed integrated schedules in close collaboration with the technical leads and project managers.
• Comfortable collaborating with company groups and key contacts outside in a variety of business areas, including engineering and development.
• Monitors and analyzes Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable to ensure both activities are timely and correct.
• Prepares financial analysis and reports for internal stakeholders and management review meetings.
• Supports internal and external audits.

Key Skills:

• Attention to detail
• Self-motivated
• A proactive decision maker, able to work unsupervised
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Exceptional time management
• Manage and prioritize conflicting demands
• Experienced analytical and interpretative skills

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Four-year college degree, preferably in finance or accounting. OR equivalent years of experience in lieu of a degree. CPA or CMA license preferred.
• Relevant experience in cost accounting, financial analytics, or financial reporting.
• Financial system experience; SAP, Business Intelligence, Tableau are preferred.
• Strong personal computer skills and MS Office or equivalent programs is required.
• Must be able to work at a computer for extended periods of time.
• Ability to prioritize, complete multiple tasks, and work under deadlines.
• Able to concentrate, focus, and perform complex financial analyses.
• Adept analytic and numeric skills are required.
• Experienced developing a team to solve complex problems in a timely manner.

Worker Type: Employee