Project Controller

About the role

CitiPower and Powercor is looking for a detail-oriented, commercially minded Project Controller to join its Urban Programs team. The role is full-time and permanent, based at the Melbourne CBD head office, and involves partnering with Project Delivery teams to manage monthly forecasts and accruals, monitor project costs and commitments, investigate variances and report clearly so that project decisions are timely and well governed.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate monthly project forecasting, accruals and cost management to support accurate financial performance reporting.
• Monitor budgets, actual costs and forecasts, investigate variances and identify emerging risks or opportunities.
• Maintain the integrity of project financial data across SAP and related project management systems.
• Analyse financial performance at project and program level and give commentary and recommendations.
• Apply project controls, governance and assurance processes to ensure compliance and reporting accuracy.
• Support audits, reviews, lessons learned and project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Improve reporting processes and identify opportunities to automate recurring tasks.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting or finance; CPA, CA or a relevant project controls qualification is desirable.
• Experience in project accounting, project controls or financial management in infrastructure, utilities, construction or engineering environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence outcomes and drive accountability.
• Ability to manage competing month-end deadlines across multiple projects and prioritise reviews by financial risk and the size of forecast or cost variances.

Required skills

• Budgeting, forecasting, accruals, cost tracking and financial variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel, able to reconcile, validate and analyse data from multiple sources.
• SAP or a comparable ERP system; familiarity with Tableau, Power BI or similar reporting tools is highly regarded.

What we offer

• Hybrid work options.
• Purchased leave and 15 weeks of gender-neutral primary parental leave.
• Health and wellbeing subsidiary.
• Career development and planning opportunities.
• Exclusive discounts.

Applications close on 20 November 2026 via the company's careers website.