Position Summary
The Cost Controller is responsible for cost control, budget monitoring, forecasting, cost reporting, and financial governance during the construction of IREN’s Badajoz Data Center. The role ensures that project expenditure, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, and changes are accurately tracked, analyzed, and controlled against approved budgets, contracts, procurement activities, construction progress, and project objectives.
The role provides accurate and timely cost visibility to the Construction and Project Management teams, supporting effective decision-making and maintaining financial control across the delivery of a large-scale, renewable-powered data center project.
This role contributes to the successful delivery of the Badajoz Data Center by maintaining project cost baselines, tracking commitments and presente expenditure, preparing forecasts and Estimate at Completion (EAC), analyzing cost variances and trends, supporting change and contingency management, monitoring contractor and supplier cost information,
and coordinating with Project Management, Construction, Procurement, Commercial, Project Controls, and Finance teams.
The Cost Controller also supports the reconciliation of budgets, purchase orders, contracts, invoices, accruals, and approved changes, ensuring that project cost information is accurate, traceable, and consistently reflected in project reporting. Through disciplined cost control and reporting, the role enables early identification of cost risks and deviations and supports the delivery of the project within approved financial targets.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Technical Office Manager, the Cost Controller is responsible for:
- Maintain and control the project cost baseline by ensuring that approved budgets are correctly structured, coded, allocated, and maintained across construction packages, contracts, purchase orders, disciplines, and cost categories in alignment with the project Work Breakdown
📌 Cost Controller (Badajoz)
🏢 IREN
📍 Badajoz