Project Cost Controller

Project Cost Controller - Fives Solios

Fives Solios is actively seeking a Project Cost Controller (F/H) to join their teams in Givors, near Lyon, on a permanent contract (CDI).

About Fives

At Fives, we are all driven by a common vocation: to make industry likeable! Together, we work daily to make industry a response to the great challenges of our time: technological, environmental, societal, and economic. How? By inventing and designing, for over 200 years, solutions and technologies that concretely and sustainably improve the daily lives of each of us.

Fives Solios, a subsidiary of the Fives group dedicated to the aluminum industry, is a world leader in equipment for primary aluminum production, implementing innovative and environmentally friendly technologies and digital solutions.

Do you want to help make industry shine? We are currently looking for a Project Cost Controller (F/H) who shares this same desire to promote industry.

Your Role

Your role will be to ensure the financial management of projects throughout their life cycle. As the primary financial referent for project teams, you will guarantee budget reliability, monitor costs, margins, and cash flow, anticipate financial deviations, and actively contribute to operational decision-making and securing project profitability.

Reporting to the Financial Department and working closely with project managers, you will act as the referent for project financial management, from launch to closure, through the following missions:

Project Start-up

• Establish the initial project budget based on costing elements, in collaboration with project budget managers.
• Implement the project's financial tracking structure and management indicators.
• Contribute to the identification of financial risks (including currency risks) from the project launch.
• Initiate the project cash flow curve (receipts/disbursements).

Project Financial Monitoring

• Ensure monitoring of actual and committed costs against the budget, in collaboration with budget managers.
• Update forecasts at completion and analyze variances.
• Track engineering hour consumption and productivity indicators.
• Manage invoicing in coordination with sales administration and monitor the cash flow curve.
• Produce reliable and regular project financial reports.
• Prepare project reviews (budget reviews, risk reviews) with the project manager.
• Proactively alert in case of deviations and lead the implementation of corrective action plans.
• Update budgets based on contractual changes (amendments, scope changes).

Continuous Improvement and Tools

• Contribute to the improvement of cost control processes.
• Participate in the validation of tools (ERP, Excel, BI).
• Disseminate a cost, margin, and cash culture among project teams.

Margin and Results Management

• Manage margin flow and project profitability.
• Feed monthly and quarterly treasury reports.
• Participate in quarterly closings (work in progress, provisions, cut-off).
• Secure revenue recognition according to project progress.

What We're Looking For

• A Master's degree (Bac+5) in Finance, Management Control, or Engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience in an industrial or complex project environment is a plus.

Technical Skills

• Solid understanding of project finance and accounting.
• Excellent command of budget management and forecasting exercises.
• Very good command of Excel.
• Experience using an ERP system, ideally SAP.
• Good understanding of EPC project environments (hour tracking, milestones, progress).
• Strong analytical and data processing skills.

Soft Skills

• High level of rigor and proven reliability in your missions.
• Strong sense of service and ability to partner with project teams.
• Ability to constructively challenge stakeholders with well-reasoned arguments.
• Autonomy, proactivity, and a results-oriented approach.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective interaction with diverse stakeholders.
• Dynamism and genuine daily commitment.

Why Join Us?

By joining Fives Solios, you will integrate an ambitious company with passionate, international teams, offering multiple opportunities for growth and mobility across various fields. We will give you ample space to learn, grow, and thrive, both professionally through our integration and support programs, and personally. You will benefit from numerous advantages such as group health insurance and meal vouchers.

So, join the industry we love!

Key skills/competency

• Project Cost Control
• Financial Management
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• ERP Systems
• SAP
• Financial Reporting
• Risk Management
• Cost Analysis
• Project Finance