Senior Project Controller

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Job Title: Senior Project Controller

Location: Salisbury, South West England + Adaptive Working Arrangement

Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF16871

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Senior Project Controller at our Boscombe Down site where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Senior Project Controller, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary, operating as an individual contributors with some guidance and direction of more senior members of the team and the wider business.

Day-to-day, you willl support projects within your delivery team and other large and complex strategic programmes.

The successful Senior Project Controller candidate is likely to have some experience acquired through practical, ’on the job’ training. They will typically be working towards a professional qualification. Individuals will work with solving problems that are routine and standardised but able to work on moderately complex problems with support.

You Will Also

• Support Project Controls and Reporting improvement activity, and sharing knowledge skills and best practice
• Deliver project support tasks within assigned team including MS Project, lifecycle briefcase, project reporting, invoicing and other project document creation and management
• Delivery of project finance tasks include debtors and cash collection, calculation of accruals, collation of cost journals and facility costs
• Project support to IDTs and other large and complex strategic programmes
• Conduct many tasks daily in relations to the building of plans and also scheduling
  

This role is full-time, with adaptive working available. The role is hybrid with an expectation of 2-3 days working on-site at Boscombe Down.

Essential Experience Of The Senior Project Controller

• Awareness of project management; the project lifecycle, project finances and sales processes
• Demonstrable competence in SAP, MS Excel (including add-ins), Word, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Good organisational and record keeping skills with ability to prioritise workload and multitask
• Experience of working to corporate procedures and the use of corporate tools
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with individuals at varying levels
  

Qualifications For The Senior Project Controller

• Educated to a minimum of GCSE, National Level 4/5 (or equivalent)
  

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community
  

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

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