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Job Summary

The Cost Controller is responsible for ensuring rigorous financial governance across all phases of the project lifecycle. This role oversees supplier payment processes, purchase order and change control, budget management, forecasting, and costtocomplete reporting. The Cost Controller partners closely with project leadership to maintain financial discipline, support informed decisionmaking, and ensure compliance with Vertiv's commercial and governance standards.

Responsibilities:

Supplier Payment & Invoice Management

• Manage endtoend processing of supplier payment applications, including receipt, accrual tracking, certification, and invoice validation.
• Issue acceptance certificates and coordinate purchase order receipt processing in Oracle.
• Validate supplier invoices against acceptance certificates and contractual terms.
• Maintain accurate registers for supplier applications, invoices, and accruals.
• Identify invoices not supported by purchase orders, obtain required approvals, and enforce PO compliance standards.
• Maintain and reconcile Requisitions and PO registers across the project lifecycle.
• Vet supplier invoices for valid PO references and return noncompliant invoices.
• Monitor open commitments and ensure alignment with approved budgets and forecasts.

Budget Management, Forecasting & Variance Analysis

• Establish and maintain project budgets within financial systems.
• Perform ongoing budget updates reflecting approved changes and actual costs.
• Produce monthly forecast variance analyses and YearToDate (YTD) budget comparisons.
• Coordinate site and project team inputs for monthly costtocomplete evaluations.
• Prepare budget updates, forecasts, and financial insights for Project Director review.

Change Management

• Evaluate and forecast the probability of future customer change order intake.
• Support preparation of COR cost estimates and pricing models.
• Communicate revenue and cost impacts of CORs for Project Operating Reviews (POR).
• Define and track sunk cost elements included in COR pricing.
• Integrate approved and forecast CORs into future budget and forecast updates.
• Supplier Change Order Requests
• Coordinate with Quantity Surveyors and Estimators to forecast actual and anticipated supplier COR costs.
• Identify change orders required to recover scope omissions or cost overruns.
• Incorporate supplier CORs into costtocomplete forecasts.
• Change Management & Commercial Governance
• Maintain a comprehensive change register for all project commercial changes.
• Coordinate evaluation, pricing, and financial impact assessments of change events.
• Ensure change approvals comply with Vertiv governance requirements.
• Update budgets, forecasts, and costtocomplete metrics based on approved changes.
• Support the Project Director in commercial negotiations related to change events.

Requirements:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Construction Management, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline
• Master's degree or professional qualifications (MBA, MSc, etc.) preferred but not required

Experience

• 7+ years of experience in cost control, project controls, commercial management, or project finance, ideally within: 
• Engineering, construction, infrastructure, or industrial projects
• Proven experience managing: 
  • Project budgets, forecasts, and costtocomplete evaluations
  • Supplier payment applications, invoices, PRs and POs
  • Change orders (customer and supplier) and commercial change registers
• Experience supporting Project Directors / Project Managers with financial reporting and commercial decisions

Technical Skills

• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems (Oracle preferred) for:
• Purchase orders, receipts, invoicing, and accruals
• Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, lookups, variance analysis, forecasting models)
• Experience preparing:
• Monthly cost reports
• YTD budget vs. actual analysis
• Forecast and variance commentary
• Familiarity with project governance, approval matrices, and financial controls

Commercial & Analytical Skills

• Strong understanding of: 
  • Contractual cost control principles
  • Change management and commercial risk
  • Revenue and cost forecasting
• Ability to assess financial impacts of scope changes and omissions 
• High attention to detail with the ability to maintain accurate financial registers

Interactions

• Site Construction Managers, Program Managers, Finance, Procurement, Operations, Order Management, Different Vertiv Business Units, other Department's Leads.

Additional Eligibility Requirements

• Valid Driver's License
• Participation in international calls outside business hours
• Up to 20% business trips

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities. 

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety.  Integrity.  Respect.  Teamwork.  Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

  High-Performance Culture

Customer Focus

  Operational Excellence

  Innovation

  Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it
• Act with urgency
• Foster a customer-first mindset
• Think big and execute
• Lead by example
• Drive continuous improvement
• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication 

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs.  Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.   

Work Authorization

No calls or agencies please. Vertiv will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com.