Project Financial Controller

Job Title: Project Controller

Location: Chino Roces Makati City (Hybrid)

Department: Corporate Finance

Reports to: Finance Manager

Job Summary:

The Project controller provides financial controlling and business partnering support to Project Managers PMs in IT consulting projects. The role focuses on project financial performance, revenue, profitability, forecasting, billing, and reporting, ensuring accurate and transparent financials aligned with business goals. The role partners closely with PMs, Finance, and Accounting to deliver financial insights, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and support decision-making. It is not primarily a cost controlling role, but one focused on overall project financial health.

Key Responsibilities:

1 . Revenue Controlling & Revenue Recognition

• Take a strong ownership role in project revenue controlling .
• Monitor recognized revenue against project progress, contractual arrangements, milestones, time spent, deliverables, and billing status.
• Ensure revenue is recognized in the appropriate accounting period and is supported by the underlying project activity.
• Review unbilled revenue, WIP, accrued revenue, deferred revenue, and other project-related balances.
• Identify potential revenue leakage, delayed billing, incorrect revenue recognition, and timing issues.
• Coordinate closely with Accounting and PMOs to resolve revenue-related discrepancies.
• Ensure project revenue is aligned with the actual delivery and financial status of the project.

2. Matching Principle & Project Financial Accuracy

• Ensure the matching principle is appropriately observed, with project-related costs and expenses recognized in the same period as the related revenue, where applicable.
• Review project accruals and other financial adjustments to ensure costs are recorded in the appropriate period.
• Identify situations where project revenue has been recognized without the corresponding costs, or where costs are recorded without the appropriate related revenue.
• Work with PMs and Accounting to ensure the financial results accurately reflect the economic performance of the project.
• Support proper cut-off and period-end accounting for project-related revenue and costs.
• Challenge unusual or inconsistent project financial results and ensure appropriate supporting documentation is available.

3. Collaboration with Accounting & Finance

• Work closely with GL, AR, AP, Revenue Accounting, and other Finance teams to ensure project financials are accurately reflected in the general ledger.
• Reconcile project financial information with accounting records.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies between project systems and the general ledger.
• Support month-end and year-end closing activities, particularly revenue recognition, accruals, WIP, and project cut-off.
• Coordinate with AR and PMs on billing and collection-related project issues..

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent.
• CPA or equivalent professional certification preferred
• 5–8 years of experience in Finance, Controlling, or Financial Reporting
• Minimum 2–3 years of external or internal audit experience.
• Experience in IT consulting, professional services, or project-based environments preferred
• Experience with month-end close and management reporting.
• Experience working with cross-functional and international teams.
• Strong Excel and financial analysis skills; Power BI is a plus

Key Competencies:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent financial storytelling and presentation skills
• Business partnering mindset
• Attention to detail
• High level of integrity
• Process improvement orientation
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple countries and deadlines

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WHO WE ARE

NNIT is a leading provider of IT solutions to life sciences internationally, and to the public and enterprise sectors in Denmark.

We focus on high complexity industries and thrive in environments where regulatory demands and complexity are high.

We advise on and build sustainable digital solutions that work for the patients, citizens, employees, end users or customers.

We strive to build unmatched excellence in the industries we serve, and we use our domain expertise to represent a business first approach – strongly supported by a selection of partner technologies, but always driven by business needs rather than technology.

NNIT consists of group company NNIT A/S and subsidiaries SCALES, Excellis Health Solutions and SL Controls. Together, these companies employ more than 1,700 people in Europe, Asia and USA.

NNIT Philippines

NNIT Philippines builds on a decade of experience, and has a reputation for developing high quality enterprise level software solutions and support as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

NNIT Philippines is an integrated part of NNIT's global IT service delivery, including specializations in the development and maintenance of enterprise and eGovernment software solutions as well as IT infrastructure operations including network and server operations for NNIT's customers around the world. The Manila based delivery center is part of NNIT's 24/7 Global Operations Centre setup and delivers services in close cooperation with NNIT's other centers in Denmark, China and the Czech Republic.

On top of the statutory benefits stipulated by the local law, NNIT DLSP employees enjoy the following benefits upon joining:

• Competitive compensation
• 13th month pay
• Performance bonus (discretionary)
• Rice subsidy
• Communication allowance
• Clothing and laundry allowance
• Medical allowance (Employee and Dependent)
• HMO (Employee and Dependent/s)
• Life insurance
• Vacation leaves and sick leaves
• Emergency loan
• Year-end gift
• Wedding gift
• First baby gift
• Breakfast once a week
• Fruits, snacks / well-stocked pantry
• Hybrid set up

Notes:

1. By applying to this job ad, you acknowledge and agree for your information to be collected by NNIT. Rest assured, any information you share will only be used for recruitment/hiring purposes.

2. This position is available only to those with current authorization to live and work in the Philippines.