Siemens Energy

Location: Ivory Coast

Mode of Employment: Permanent

Position Title: Commercial Project Manager

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A snapshot of your day

This role is a replacement to ensure business continuity for the Africa finance team, supporting the Industrial Steam Turbines & Generators business. The position is critical for maintaining accurate commercial and financial oversight of projects within the region. To meet this objective, the role is structured around three core areas: detailed project cost estimation, comprehensive commercial and financial control, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination. This framework ensures that all project phases, from bidding to execution, are financially sound and aligned with business targets. Given the focus on financial analysis and project control, the ideal candidate will possess proven experience in cost estimation and budgeting within an industrial or engineering context. This Experienced Professional will work independently to manage difficult, but not complex, financial challenges, ensuring project profitability and compliance

How you will influence

• 60% Commercial & Financial Project Control
• Collaborate with cost controllers to monitor project costs against budget and produce preliminary cost forecasts.
• Evaluate the financial impact of scope changes, contract variations, and cost trends throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage project-related financial documentation, including supporting the invoicing process.
• Supports the Project Manager in managing and optimizing targeted financial results with due professional care
• You have full responsibility for all commercial/finance-related matters, including but not limited to handling Accounting, Legal, Tax, Foreign Exchange, guarantees
• Ensures accurate methodology for identifying, evaluating, assessing risks & opportunities, strategies, and mitigation activities.
• Ensures the accuracy of cost and pricing calculation as well as overall project financials, incl. recording of such in appropriate systems, e.g., SAP.
• You ensure compliance with IFRS15, local GAAP requirements, reporting guidelines, and internal controls.
• Identifies, minimizes non-conformance costs, and establishes an appropriate reporting structure; supports the implementation of lessons learned into own project and the organization in general
• Responsible for monthly revenue recognition and contractual invoicing
• Commercial support during Sales Phase, Account receivables & payables management
• Assisting Controlling and Reporting related tasks, i.e. for forecasting and budgeting
• Liaise with planning, scheduling, and project management teams to provide necessary cost data and inputs.
• Prepare and maintain detailed service and cost reports for all project activities.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders on commercial and financial matters.
• Customer, result and quality orientation and motivation, as well as personal initiative

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Business Administration or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in project cost controlling, project reporting, commercial management or a similar role preferably within the energy, industrial, or construction sectors
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office applications and SAP
• Experience working independently on moderately complex financial and commercial tasks.
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving and efficient communication skills, team player

About the team

Our Siemens Energy team in Mozambique consists of a branch manager, 2 SGT-800 commissioning engineers, an office supervisor and an office assistant. A small team where we focus on innovative, diverse and constructive mentality. The Siemens Energy Mozambique office is a branch off Siemens Energy South Africa which gives that most support functions are hosted by our head office.

Within the Gas Services division, we offer energy solutions with zero or low emissions based on our gas turbines gathered under one roof and together with steam turbines and generators. Through service, modernization and digitization of the delivered fleet, we create opportunities for a reduced climate footprint.

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Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the increased demand for energy in more than 90 countries while helping to protect our climate. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for more than 16% of the world's population, but we also use our technology to protect people and the environment.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We steward a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages us to seek people who support our focus on carbon reduction, new technologies and energy transition.

Our commitment to diversity

Fortunately, we are all different. Through diversity we generate power. We are driven forward by inclusion and our common creative energy comes from around 130 different nationalities. At Siemens Energy, we see diversity as a matter of course - regardless of ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity or functional variation. We energize society, the whole society, and we don't discriminate based on our differences.