Expert, Cost Control Analyst

Role Purpose

Provide accurate and timely cost control for the development of Gia Binh International Airport. The role tracks CAPEX and OPEX against approved budgets, checks commitments and payments, and produces the data and reports used for budgeting, forecasting and cash planning.

It suits a detail-focused finance professional who is strong with data and enjoys getting to the root of discrepancies.

Key Responsibilities

• Cost tracking: Maintain CAPEX and OPEX trackers by project, contract package and cost code, from budget through commitment, certified value and payment to forecast at completion.
• Budget checks: Check budget availability before commitments and variations are approved, and flag anything that would exceed budget.
• Tender results vs budget: Analyse tender results and compare with original budget.
• Baseline, variations and contingency: Maintain the budget baseline and contingency by package; track variations and contingency use, calculate their impact on budget and cash, and prepare CAPEX change requests.
• Phasing and forecasting: Phase budgets by month and quarter, update forecasts as contracts are signed and work progresses, and prepare cash requirement schedules.
• Reporting: Prepare monthly CAPEX and OPEX budget-vs-actual and commitment-vs-payment reports and weekly commitment reports, with variances explained.
• Data quality: Keep cost coding accurate, reconcile trackers with the various internal systems, and maintain audit-ready records.
• Problem-solving: Investigate discrepancies to their root cause and resolve them before reporting deadlines; flag overruns and delays early.

Candidate Requirements

• Education: Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Construction Economics; CFA / ACCA progress is a plus.
• Experience: 5–8 years in cost control, project accounting or FP&A on construction or infrastructure projects, including budget control across multiple contract packages.
• Technical: Working knowledge of construction contract payment mechanics (advances, guarantees, retentions, interim payment certificates and variations), or the ability to learn them quickly; working knowledge of Vietnamese regulations on construction investment cost management and total investment (TMĐT).
• Excel and data tools (essential): Advanced Excel, Data Model, PivotTables, complex formulas and automated reporting; working knowledge of SAP. VBA / Office Scripts, Power BI or SQL is a plus.
• Attention to detail (essential): Careful and accurate with data and formulas; checks that numbers make sense and reconciles them across sources; spots discrepancies and keeps reports consistent; delivers to fixed deadlines.
• Problem-solving (essential): Practical problem-solver; can give examples of tracking down and fixing a discrepancy in cost or payment data by working across teams.
• Service orientation (important): Patient and helpful when supporting colleagues on budget and cost queries; explains finance processes simply and follows issues through to resolution, while holding firm on budget controls.
• System experience (preferred, not required): Has taken part in implementing or improving an ERP / EPM, budgeting or reporting system, for example through UAT, data mapping or process standardisation.
• Language: Good working English.