Job Vacancies at ABB

Your role and responsibilities

• Leads the execution of medium-size projects and ensures that all related activities are performed in accordance with ABB policy, relevant cybersecurity regulations and standards, contractual agreements, quality standards, Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) requirements, financial targets, and schedule commitment
• The work model for the role is: Hybrid
• This role is contributing to the Energy Industries Division /Power Reliability Business Line in South Africa.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Leading the project team, establishing the project execution approach, and overseeing planning, monitoring and control activities for internal and external resources to accomplish all project goals.
• Monitoring and controlling project progress, efficient resource utilization, and project financials.
• Identifying, qualifying, quantifying, managing project risk, and ensuring all opportunities are identified and pursued.
• Driving the formal acceptance of the project, contract close-out, and acknowledgment by the customer, all in accordance with the contract.

Qualifications for the role

• Degree in Engineer or relevant qualification
• Minimum 7 years of experience in project management role, working as Project Manager within the oil & gas, utilities, and other industrial market.
• PM certification – PMP or equivalent PM certification from large MNC companies like ABB.
• Knowledge of using Microsoft projects, SAP, and PR+ will be added advantage or having used similar enterprise resource & data management system for PM process implementation.
• A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills.
• Project execution experiences with South Africa (Specially NEC contracts with Eskom) local regulations standards shall be an Add-on

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Your role and responsibilities

• In this role, you will have the opportunity to provide financial expertise to your assigned organization. Each day, you will compile and analyze various relevant metrics, identify trends and problems, and communicate information to relevant groups. You will also showcase your expertise by recommending actions to improve financial performance of a specific business.
• The work model for the role is: Onsite
• This role is contributing to the Motion Business Area in South Africa.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Performing analyses of business performance versus budget and forecast, and accordingly proposing improvement actions.
• Executing benchmarking of key performance indicators with industry competitors and similar businesses within ABB; and working with other finance professionals to understand and analyze the drivers of financial performance of the organization and identify trends.
• Preparing financial modeling for various hypotheses and the overall impact to the business unit.
• Supporting the preparation of financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the relevant organization.

Our team dynamics

• You will join a dynamic, talented, and high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• Must have qualification of National Diploma or Bachelor's Degree Finance / Accounting / or related fields
• You have 5-8 years of experience in reconciliations of general ledger
• Ability to demonstrate your experience in analytical thinking of data and financial key performance indicators
• Possess an enhanced knowledge of SAP, Power BI and MS Office
• You are innovative around problem solving and a great communicator within teams
• Have a demonstrated track record in project finance / controlling
• You are at ease communicating in teams and stakeholders at all levels