Senior EPC Cost Manager

Description

Position Summary

The Senior EPC Cost Manager serves as the primary liaison between the Operations/Execution (project-based) cost team and the corporate cost and finance organization. The role ensures project cost data, forecasts, and reporting stay aligned with corporate financial systems, budgets, and controls — reconciling project-controls cost information (commitments, accruals, actuals, and estimate-at-completion forecasts) with the general ledger and corporate reporting, and maintaining consistent cost standards, governance, and communication across both organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary interface between project/execution cost teams and corporate cost and finance, translating project-controls data into corporate financial reporting and vice versa.
• Reconcile project cost data (commitments, accruals, actuals, ETC/EAC forecasts) with the corporate general ledger and financial statements; investigate and resolve variances.
• Align project cost forecasts and cash flow with corporate budgeting, FP&A, and capital-planning cycles.
• Establish and maintain consistent cost coding and WBS/CBS-to-chart-of-accounts mapping across execution and corporate systems (e.g., Oracle Unifier and Oracle Fusion).
• Consolidate multi-project cost data into portfolio-level reporting for executive and corporate finance stakeholders.
• Support month-end and period-end close through accurate project accruals, cost transfers, and capitalization.
• Drive governance, process, and controls improvements that increase the accuracy and timeliness of cost information across both teams.
• Partner with project controls managers, accounting, procurement, and treasury to maintain a single source of truth for cost.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to leadership on cost performance, risks, and trends at both the project and corporate levels.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field (preferred).
• 7+ years of cost experience spanning both a corporate cost/finance role and a project-based execution (field) cost role.
• Strong command of project cost controls (commitments, accruals, actuals, ETC/EAC, cash flow) and corporate financial processes (general ledger, close, FP&A/budgeting).
• Experience reconciling project-controls data with corporate financial systems (e.g., Oracle Unifier and Oracle Fusion or equivalents).
• Advanced Excel and data analysis across large cost data sets.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge execution and corporate stakeholders.
• Experience on EPC or large capital projects in power, oil & gas, or data center sectors.