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Senior Cost Controller - Outside IR35
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Senior Cost Controller - Outside IR35
Cost Controller – KJO DeSalter Project
About the Role
Join Kent PLC—unleash your energy within.
If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We’ve created a new breed of company: a future-focused, reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.
We love team members who recognise their own potential and are ready to use it. Together, the sum of our efforts grows beyond what we can accomplish individually—so we celebrate those who seek growth and development as we tackle some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.
We are unwavering in our commitment to diversity and inclusion, fostering a community where everyone can thrive, be their authentic self, and flourish. From day one, we offer:
- Family-friendly and inclusive employment policies
- Flexible working arrangements
- Employee networks supporting a variety of backgrounds
Kent is an Equal Opportunities Employer, inviting applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.
This role requires a disability-friendly approach, and we can make adjustments to ensure you meet the needs of the recruitment process.
Our Purpose and Beliefs
"As Kent, we face the defining challenge of our time: providing the energy our world needs in the most responsible way yet imagined."
Our collective ambition, aligned to our core beliefs, drives our success:
- We Play Big – pioneering, expansive thinking
- Emotional Agility – adaptability with passion and purpose
- Fanatical About Performance – relentless pursuit of excellence
- Infinite Thinking – anchoring ambition in creative, boundary-breaking solutions
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Our Vision for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
We recognise that diversity and inclusion are catalysts for innovative success. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued, understood, and empowered. Varied nationalities—across six continents and 24 countries—merge to shape a vibrant, open-workforce culture.
Our mission is to celebrate every character, irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.
Scope of Work: Cost Controller
This role focuses on the KJO DeSalter Project, acting as an independent cost overseer for financial performance, reporting, governance, and decision-making support for project teams.
The Cost Controller operates autonomously, selecting their own methods and tools to deliver results efficiently.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively preparing monthly cost performance reports, including:
- Cost Performance Index (CPI)
- Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
- Variance analysis
- Developing and updating the cost forecasting model, incorporating risk-adjusted projections
- Maintaining budget tracking dashboards with expenditure summaries
- Providing financial insights for project status reports
- Identifying cost efficiencies and proposing enhancement opportunities
- Updating the cost risk register, with mitigation recommendations
- Serving as a financial reporting and trending source for the Project Controls Manager (PCM)
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Cost and Staffing Management:
- Preparing and managing staffing plans, including cost and job hours evaluation
- Coordination of cost reports and financial data analysis
Additional Duties:
- Collecting and classifying cost engineering data
- Conducting data-driven analysis and development of insights
- Ensuring all tasks and milestones are completed independently, on time, and in line with project schedules and budgets
- Proactively identifying opportunities, mitigating risks, and implementing effective actions across project progress metrics
Commitment to Inclusivity and Opportunities:
As with all roles at Kent, we remain dedicated to a diverse, inclusive community from the very start, fostering opportunities and benefits aligned with resources across backgrounds.
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer, celebrating applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.
Disability support is available throughout the process—contact us at recruitment.uk@kentplc.com for confidential recommendations on how we can tailor your experience.
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