Project Controller
Summary
Manages project finances from bid to close, ensuring compliance, accurate reporting, and risk management while collaborating with project and contract managers in an architecture firm.
Requirements
- Help
the Bid Manager build the cost model and assess financial viability
- Review
risks and opportunities; support the Go / No Go decision
- Project finance experience
- Engineering, consulting or professional services background preferred
- Contract literacy
- Comfortable with billing structures, revenue recognition terms and risk allocation
Project Set-Up
- Attend
the handover from bid to execution team; review the contract's financial terms
- Confirm
the appropriate revenue recognition method for the contract type
- Set
up the project, billing plan, and revenue schedule in the ERP system
- Issue
advance payment invoices; arrange performance and advance payment bonds
- Input
and validate the initial financial forecast; present to management
Delivery : Ongoing
- Lead
the financial review at project progress meetings (at least quarterly)
- Analyse
actuals against forecast; explain variances; update cost-to-complete
- Review
risks and opportunities with the PM; adjust contingencies as the project
matures
- Optimise
billing milestones to improve cash timing
- Prepare
and issue customer invoices; chase overdue payments; agree recovery actions
with
- Run
month-end close: time bookings, intercompany transactions, cost accruals,
revenue reconciliations
- Monitor
bonds and guarantees; request releases as milestones are metSupport
tax queries and respond to audit requests
Close-Out
- Verify
the project closing checklist; confirm final financial settlement with the
customer
- Close
purchase orders, booking codes, and remaining bonds; confirm insurance
cancellation
- Ensure
all revenue is invoiced and collected with no residual balances
- Participate
in the lessons-learned review
Benefits
- A competitive salary commensurate with experience and expertise.
- Exposure to iconic urban and architectural projects across the continent.
- Career development opportunities in a progressive, design-led environment.
- A studio culture grounded in innovation, excellence, and collaboration.
About dhk Architects
dhk Architects is one of the largest and leading design-led architectural studios in Africa. Our strength comes from a unique blend of creative design thinking, technical capability, implementation expertise and strategic vision.
Our reputation is built not only on landmark architecture but also on our longstanding commitment to designing integrated environments. We believe architecture should enhance and shape its context, a philosophy rooted in urban design. At dhk, we foster a culture of progressive design, high-performance, and collaboration, where urban thinking drives innovation in built form.
We support personal and professional growth through mentorship, development initiatives, and a studio environment that encourages experimentation, leadership, and ambition.