Senior Cost Controller - Plymouth, United Kingdom - Babcock International

Babcock International

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Plymouth, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Senior Cost Controller:

Location: Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Cost Controllers

Location:
Plymouth, UK - Hybrid Working

Compensation:
£39,408.00

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent or Contract

Role ID:
SF: 49211

_Amplify your impact_

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Cost Controllers at our Devonport site.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

Babcock International and Devonport

The Senior Cost Controllers role is based within our Devonport Royal Dockyard business area.

Working at Devonport puts the best of the South West at your fingertips.

Amazing scenery, vibrant towns and numerous leisure opportunities - It's why Devon and Cornwall are such a desirable place to live and work.

Comprising of 14 dry docks, four miles of waterfront and 25 tidal berths, Devonport is the base for numerous surface vessels as well as the base and refit centre for the Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines.

Devonport has also recently been selected as the base port for the Navy's new Type 26 frigates and will become the maintenance centre for the future submarine programme.

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services.

We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

The role

The difference our new Senior Cost Controllers will make
As a Senior Cost Controllers, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary.

As a Senior Cost Controller, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary where you look to enhance project performance and stability through the collection, analysis, investigation, and reporting of meaningful cost information to allow informed decision-making at a program, project and zonal level.

Day to day, you will be Managing actuals against multiple cost performance baselines, managing change against multiple performance baselines, producing internal and external monthly reporting.

You will be Conducting data analysis and recommendations and coordinating forecasts from activity owners.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you'll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.

This role provides hybrid working with 1-2 days working from home.

Essential experience

Experience of a cost control/management environment
An understanding of project controls, specifically cost control, earned value, finance, scheduling or estimating
Excellent Stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to liaise at all levels of the business
Previous Data analysis experience with a working knowledge of Excel
Personal effectiveness and drive

Beneficial:

Educated to degree level or qualified with an APMP/ or equivalent experience
Experience of a purposebuilt cost management system (Cobra, Ecosys et cetera)

What we offer

Generous benefits including:

Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
Employee share scheme save tax and national insurance on shares, with 1 free share per 10 purchased
Employee shopping savings portal
Employment development allowance £125 per year
Payment of Professional Fees
Reward and Recognition Scheme linked to Health and Safety
Working from home and flexible work patterns
Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

Babcock International
For over 130 years, we have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

Change begins with our people and our shared Principles:
be curious; be courageous; own and deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; and be kind. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.

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