Title:  Cost Controller

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Role / Are you up for the challenge?

As a Site Cost Controller, based at our Broadford site office, you will be responsible for overseeing the financial aspects of the project, ensuring costs are effectively managed and aligned with budgets and forecasts.

This role will support teams across multiple locations, including Wandong, Broadford, Seymour, and Tallarook.

You will work closely with project delivery leaders, commercial teams, and stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and insights to support decision-making.

Project Description

Inland Rail is transforming how goods are moved around Australia, connecting Melbourne and Brisbane via regional Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. This 1,700km fast freight backbone will complete our national freight network – better connecting producers to markets and creating new opportunities for regional businesses, industries and communities.

The Beveridge to Albury (B2A) project is the Victorian portion of the program undertaken along approximately 305 kms of existing northeast rail corridor between Beveridge and Albury. B2A is staged in two tranches. Tranche 1 includes enhancement works across four sites and corridor wide works.

Tranche 2 works will be delivered by John Holland and includes adjustment of track alignments, the provision of new road overbridges and station modifications to enable the safe operation of double-stack freight trains across eight B2A project sites between Wandong and Benalla. 

Responsibilities of the role include / What you will do;

Overall responsibility for the role on this high-profile major project includes:

• Provide technical knowledge and support in the development of the project site team forecasting and risk to the delivery engineers
• Monitor and analyse daily costs with delivery engineers
• Ensure correct allocation of costs in the financial system
• Compile and review monthly project reports and KPI’s
• Review and analyse project site results in relation to cost, budgets and forecasts.
• Interpret site forecasting results as they affect the financial position of the project and make recommendations for cost reduction and profit improvement.
• Compile, review and analysis forecast information to evaluate the final financial position of the project site.
• Liaise with the projects external auditors as required.
• Contribute to the ongoing training of delivery engineers in forecasting
• Build strong internal and external stakeholder management through positive, proactive and professional communication to keep key personnel informed.
• Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems and procedures

To be successful in this key role, you must have / What we are looking for;

• Tertiary qualifications in a accounting, finance, business, engineering, Quantity Surveying commerce/statistics or relevant discipline
• 5-10 years Construction Site Cost Control experience and/or experience in a similar role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with staff at all levels
• Highly developed computer skills with advanced knowledge of MS excel

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What’s in it for you

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We Offer:

• Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
• Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of   super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
• Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
• Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
• Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
• Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.