Planning and Cost Control Manager

At Inver, we are looking for a Planning and Cost Control Manager with experience in EPC companies within the Renewable Energy sector. Their mission will be to guarantee that the cost, schedule, and cash information of the project portfolio is reliable, traceable, consistent, and independent, providing an objective view of project performance to allow for the anticipation of deviations, facilitate decision-making, and support the achievement of business objectives.

The person will hold a transversal control function within the Project Coordination department, working in a coordinated manner with PMs and with the Engineering, Construction, Procurement, QHSE, Asset Management, and Finance areas to ensure the quality and timeliness of monitoring information.

They will report functionally to the Project Coordination Management.

1. Establish and maintain the baseline budget for each project, control committed and actual costs, and analyze deviations.
2. Prepare and update, using independent judgment, the Estimate at Completion (EAC) [and margin forecast], and cross-check it with each PM's estimate.
3. Control contingency items and their consumption.
4. Integrate the planning of each project with Construction, Engineering, and Procurement information, establish the schedule baseline, and control physical progress, the critical path, and the S-curve.
5. Analyze cost and schedule deviations using Earned Value Management (EVM) techniques or other equivalents.
6. Track certification [to contractors / to the client] and invoicing against actual progress, as well as the project's forecasted and actual cash flow.
7. Register and evaluate scope changes, change orders, and claims, and quantify their impact on cost and schedule.
8. Maintain the register of economic and schedule risks for each project, detect deviations in advance, propose corrective actions, and escalate when appropriate.
9. Consolidate information from each project and the portfolio, and prepare periodic economic and schedule performance reports for PMs, the Project Management Office Management, and the Executive Management.
10. Define, together with the Project Management Office Management, the control methodology, KPIs, and reporting dynamics, in coordination with PMs and the various areas.
11. Ensure that the methodology is applied and that the involved areas deliver information on time.
12. Collaborate with Financial Management and Enhol Energía on accounting closing, forecasting, cost allocation and capitalization (work in progress), and economic information requirements for the projects.
13. Perform the economic and schedule closing of each project and support its handover to Asset Management.
14. Coordinate and develop the support analyst, drive continuous improvement of control processes and tools, and incorporate lessons learned.