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But more than that, we’re here to power communities, support local businesses and keep critical services running smoothly, we’re essential to them all - and none of this happens without our people.\nWe believe in an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, valued and respected. From offering great benefits to creating real opportunities for growth, we’re committed to supporting you, your career and wellbeing. It’s why our people stick around, whether you live in the city or across regional and rural Victoria, we’re doing the work where it matters most - right in your own community. As Victorians electrify everything from homes to transport, we’re focused on ensuring our networks are ready to meet that demand.\nIf you want to be part of something essential, be essential with us.\nAbout the Role:\nWe're looking for a detail-oriented and commercially minded Project Controller to join our Urban Programs team, in a full time and permanent capacity based at our Melbourne CBD head office.\nIn this role, you'll partner closely with Project Delivery teams to manage monthly forecasts and accruals, monitor project costs and commitments, and investigate variances across a portfolio of projects. You’ll also help delivery teams understand what’s driving changes in forecast costs, flag emerging budget pressures and potential underspends, and provide clear reporting to support timely decisions and project governance.\nYou'll play a key role in ensuring project costs, forecasts and reporting are accurate, reliable and actionable, enabling informed decision-making and successful project outcomes.\nThis is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong project accounting or project controls experience who enjoys working with data, challenging assumptions, identifying trends and influencing project performance through meaningful insights.\nKey Responsibilities:\nCoordinate monthly project forecasting, accruals and cost management to support accurate financial performance reporting.\nMonitor budgets, actual costs and forecasts, investigating variances and identifying emerging risks or opportunities.\nMaintain the integrity of project financial data across SAP and related project management systems.\nAnalyse financial performance at project and program level and provide clear commentary and recommendations to support decisions.\nApply project controls, governance and assurance processes to ensure compliance and reporting accuracy.\nSupport audits, reviews, lessons learned and project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.\nImprove reporting processes and identify opportunities to automate recurring tasks.\nFor more information on the role’s responsibilities, please click here to download the position description.\nTo succeed in this role you will have:\nA bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting or finance. CPA, CA or a relevant project controls qualification is desirable.\nExperience in project accounting, project controls or financial management within infrastructure, utilities, construction or engineering environments.\nStrong capability in budgeting, forecasting, accruals, cost tracking and financial variance analysis.\nAdvanced Excel skills with the ability to reconcile, validate and analyse data from multiple sources.\nExperience working with project financial data in SAP or a comparable ERP system. Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI or similar reporting tools is highly regarded.\nAbility to investigate complex issues, challenge assumptions and translate data into meaningful business insights.\nStrong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with confidence influencing outcomes and driving accountability.\nAbility to manage competing month-end deadlines across multiple projects and prioritise reviews based on financial risk and the size of forecast or cost variances.\nKey Benefits:\nWe’re proud to offer an inclusive, supportive workplace where everyone feels safe, valued, and empowered to grow. Some of our benefits include hybrid work options, purchased leave, 15 weeks of gender neutral primary parental leave, health and wellbeing subsidiary, career development and planning opportunities, and exclusive discounts. Visit our company website to learn more.\nDiversity, Equity & Inclusion to support a fair workplace for all\nWe are committed to building a safe, inclusive, and supportive workplace where people of all genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities and ages are valued for who they are and empowered to do their best. Through our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategy (DEI), Reconciliation Action Plans and initiatives like Women in Power and Sparkle, our LGBTQIA+ allies network, we’re working to create equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for Women. Explore our benefits.\nWe welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, and strongly encourage First Peoples, women, people from the LGBTIQA community, culturally and racially marginalised people and people with disabilities to apply. We recognise how people from marginalised groups can face extra barriers and self-select out of recruitment processes. 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