Senior Cost Controller
Queensland Rail
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Brisbane • 🇦🇺 Australia
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💰 A$135,199 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Develop, implement, and maintain best-practice processes for project budget management, planning, monitoring, and reporting.
- Provide advice and support on cost management procedures to ensure transparency and accuracy of project costs.
- Support project estimating, budgeting, cash-flow planning, and forecasting processes.
- Coordinate project change requests and contingency drawdowns.
- Manage end-to-end cost processes including accruals, invoice validation, and SAP R3 compliance.
- Conduct audits and reconciliations to ensure data accuracy.
- Engage with engineers, managers, and stakeholders to validate asset data and ensure accurate accounting.
- Conduct site visits and walk-arounds with Project Managers to support asset onboarding.
- Assist the Fixed asset team in identifying and transferring project costs to assets that are being commissioned into operations.
Requirements
- Proven experience in project cost planning for large, multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects.
- Strong knowledge of financial and project management systems, ideally SAP R3.
- Ability to interpret, analyse, and report complex cost and schedule data with accuracy and clarity.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including use of BI tools (e.g., Power BI) for reporting and data analysis
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the confidence to challenge assumptions and influence outcomes.
- Someone outgoing, supportive and collaborative, comfortable engaging with engineers, managers, and diverse teams on-site.
- Effective influencing and stakeholder engagement skills with ability to build and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders across other government stakeholders.
- A solutions-focused mindset, with the ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.
Benefits
- Balance your work and personal life with flexible working options
- Enjoy free travel to work and discounted rail travel
- QRI Lifestyle offers members access to over 2,000 exclusive discounts and services
- Prioritise your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing with our range of free services
- You and your family can get fit and have fun with access to over 380 gyms and pools with our Fitness Passport
- Eligible employees can receive up to 100% reimbursement for professional membership fees
- Shape your rewarding career with clear pathways, innovative projects and opportunities for growth and leadership.
- And more! Click here to see the full range of benefits available to Queensland Rail employees.
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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