Project Controller

SUMMARY:
A leading industrial group is offering an internal career opportunity for an experienced Project Controller to join its Group Data and Digital Office. This role provides strategic and operational oversight across a portfolio of digital transformation, data analytics, and technology enablement initiatives spanning multiple group companies.

The successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening project governance, financial control, performance tracking, risk management, and value realisation, ensuring full alignment with the Group’s Digital and Data Strategy.

POSITION INFO:

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain project control frameworks, standards, and templates across data and digital initiatives
• Monitor compliance with governance processes, including scope, budget, schedule, and quality baselines
• Facilitate project reviews, stage gates, and portfolio reporting to sponsors and stakeholders
• Implement professional secondment and outsourcing models to optimise resourcing across the group

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking of all digital and data projects
• Track expenditure against approved budgets and flag variances or potential overruns
• Prepare consolidated financial and performance dashboards for executive review

• Maintain an integrated portfolio register across all group digital and data initiatives
• Provide insights on project health, interdependencies, and resource allocation
• Consolidate monthly and quarterly portfolio reports to support executive decision-making

• Identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, and interdependencies
• Support mitigation and contingency planning and escalate critical risks where required

• Act as a key liaison between project managers, finance, IT, and business stakeholders
• Support alignment between group and subsidiary project control processes
• Prepare presentations and briefing materials for executive and board-level forums

• Drive improvements in project control practices, reporting automation, and portfolio visibility
• Promote best practices in project governance and portfolio management

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field
• 5–8 years’ experience in project control, portfolio management, or PMO within a technology, digital, or data environment
• Project / programme management certification (e.g. PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PRINCE2, PMO Practitioner) preferred

Key Skills & Competencies

• Strong understanding of digital project management and DevSecOps delivery principles
• Experience implementing project governance structures
• Sound financial management, project accounting, and programme management knowledge
• Stakeholder engagement and expectation management
• Proficiency in project management tools, cost control, scheduling, and resourcing
• Risk management, change management, and benefits realisation monitoring