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Project Controller

ABB

ABB

Accounting & Finance
St Neots, Saint Neots PE19, UK
Posted on Oct 18, 2025

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

LD Business Controller


In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive all financial activities within multiple small-scale projects or a single large project. Each day, you will act as a business partner to the Project Management team, supporting all financial and commercial matters. You will also showcase your expertise by actively driving project performance.

The work model for the role is hybrid, based in St Neots, UK.

This scope of the role covers the Process Automation Energy Industries UK, Ireland and Azerbaijan cluster.

You will be mainly accountable for:

  • Providing input to negotiations on commercial issues, during local risk review process, and on the financial aspects of the project execution plan.

  • Preparing project invoices and financial accounting and reporting (including project site accounting).

  • Driving and seeking for the optimization of project cash flow, revenues, and gross margin contribution and effectively managing currency risk, and bonds, guarantees, and tax issues.

  • Ensuring the accuracy of project balance sheet, income and cash flow statements, and monthly/quarterly forecast and participating in opportunity/risk identification, monitoring risk mitigation measures, and ensuring they are timely implemented.


Qualifications for the role

  • Proven track record in Project Controlling, including use of relevant tools and systems

  • Proficient in Revenue Recognition and other relevant standards; fiscal and tax regulations; familiar with sales related business processes, contract management, and credit control

  • Possess excellent cost management, budgeting, and financial analysis skills

  • Excellent English communication skills

  • Experience in the Engineering industry or related fields such as electrical, power, and energy

Benefits

ABB offers a full range of benefits to help you thrive at work and beyond.

  • Competitive salary

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

  • Competitive contributory pension scheme

  • Life assurance

  • Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)

  • Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally

  • Employee Assistance Programme

  • Generous employee referral scheme

  • Company car or cash for car allowance

  • Hybrid/ Flexible working

  • Private medical cover

  • Generous bonus scheme

For the 5th consecutive year ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world.
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We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.

Publication ID: JOB_POSTING-3-34047