Associate Cost Controller (m/w/d) – Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg marks a defining moment in Europe for Tesla’s mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Here we will launch revolutionary products on a massive scale, using extraordinary speed, innovation, and efficiency. Our employees will ensure that we achieve our goals, and we welcome you to help us write the next chapter of our success story. 

We at Gigafactory Berlin Project Controls Team are looking for an Associate Cost Controller to join an energetic and vibrant environment.

The Project Control Team’s primary objective is to support the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) group in the design, planning, and execution of company infrastructure by providing management with critical decision-making information that ensures projects deliver on time and on budget. The team does this by closely collaborating with other functional teams throughout the project lifecycle to ensure adequate definition of scope, cost, and schedule; establish reasonable baselines; identify and manage risk; and track, monitor, and report project performance.  The team can then make valuable recommendations that improve and drive project performance.

• Cost Management: Develop and implement cost management programs for construction projects, including approved budget, total commitments, cost incurred, and invoiced costs. Work closely with project team to forecast project costs during project execution.
• Change Management/Cost Forecasting: Implement change management and capture associated costs to provide an accurate forecast.
• Invoice verification and reconciliation.
• Cost Communication: Develop reports/dashboards to communicate cost performance to various teams and different levels of management.
• Cost Analysis & tracking: Perform trend analysis and actively evaluate project cost performance to identify potential risk areas, validate forecast – communicate those quickly to key stakeholders.
• Reporting: Develop cost tools and reports to communicate project cost metrics and performance with the project team and senior managers so they can make data-based decisions.
• Funding: Assist team in preparing project funding requests.
• Performance Tracking:  Track and summarize project performance with other project controls functions and the finance teams.
• Studies:  Perform ad-hoc cost studies that enable rapid decision-making based on payback, rate of return, etc.
• Other work as needed in support of successful project delivery.