Project Controller - Plano, United States - Ericsson

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    Location: Plano, TX

    About this opportunity

    We are now looking for a Project Controller (PC) to secure and drive financial insight and controls customer programs and projects. PC role will drive financial control, financial risk management and stakeholder engagement in customer program and project execution. PC also secures that financial control is established within the project governance framework.

    At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world. Are you ready to be a change-maker?

    What you will do

  • Engage with key stakeholders to perform risk analysis on selected opportunities in Sales Funnel to assess, identify & feedback project
  • Identify & address project portfolio control and performance related risks in Case (P/L, B/S including WCAP & Cash Flow), ensuring ability to follow up during execution
  • Engage with Operations during FAS Planning to ensure optimal breakdown of Case into Fulfillment Assignment from a financial perspective for projects in scope
  • Secure financial control is established within the project governance framework
  • Analyze financial performance versus operational progress, advise & propose improvements for projects in scope
  • Identify & address deviations between budget, forecast & actuals, connect financial deviations to operational progress and identify actions as input to governance, reporting & forecasting for projects in scope
  • Monitor & Control Cashflow & Working Capital assumptions against actuals, propose improvements & evaluate the need for loss provision for projects in scope
  • Ensure financial risk management by identifying & quantify risks impacting the financial result, propose mitigations and evaluate the need for loss provision, for projects in scope
  • Advise on consolidated financials & translation of operational plans (billing & Cost) into financial plans (NS & CoS) for projects in scope
  • You will bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance or equivalent
  • Financial modeling knowledge
  • Proficient in English
  • Good communication, influencing and persuading skills
  • Good analyzing skills
  • Good relating and networking skills
  • Adapt and respond to change / Decide and initiate action
  • Highly structured & organized
  • Strong performance ethics, high professionalism, and integrity
  • You may also bring

  • Strong data analysis skills
  • Ability to create Power BI data analysis/visualization
  • Programming language knowledge to enable data automation
  • This position reports directly to Manager Financial Analysis and Collections

    Why join Ericsson?

    At Ericsson, you ́ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and creativity to push the boundaries of what ́s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world's toughest problems. You ́ll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You ́ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.