CDE Cost & Progress Manager

Job Description

Nokia is a global leader in the technologies that connect people and things. With state-of-the-art software, hardware and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned to help communication service providers, governments, and large enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the Internet of Things.Serving customers in over 100 countries, our research scientists and engineers continue to invent and accelerate new technologies that will increasingly transform the way people and things communicate and connect.Nokia is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion.At Nokia, employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.CDE Cost & Progress Manager performs proactive progress and cost control in one or more projects / annuity business cases* for GS. Dedicated CPM is assigned to support COM or SBM.(*)Project term will be used cover both project type work as well as Care & Network Operations type of continuous customer delivery.Mission:

• Performs proactive progress and cost control in one or more projects* (WBS / Care contract) for GS
• Drives and ensures cost consciousness and awareness in execution team.
• Supports COM / SBM in
• End-to-end cost management where COM / SBM is responsible for the project s* financial performance.
• Estimating, monitoring, reporting, analyzing and managing the project* execution progress against time, milestones, cost related performance indicators and invoicing schedule agreed in the customer contract.
• Enables end-to-end transparent cost visibility for project* with efficient setup and reporting including As Sold Cost Estimate (ASCE), Cost Baseline (CBL), Estimate at Completion costs (EAC), committed costs and actual costs.
• Manages the Cost Baseline (CBL) and Estimate at Completion costs (EAC) for project* for GS.
• Performs end-to-end cost management for GS and provides Cost & Progress reporting and analysis to key stakeholders for corrective and preventive actions.
• Contributes to accurate booking and planning of project s cost of sales and revenues by aligning with logistics and Project F&C.

Summary of key activities:

• Contribution to Services tendering during Pre-Sales
• End-to-end Project Cost & Progress Management set-up
• Project Cost & Progress Planning
• Monitoring and Controlling project Cost & Progress
• Enabling end-to-end project cost visibility
• Risk Management support
• Project Closure

Contribution to NSN Key Performance Indicators:

• Global Services Project Cost Adherence GS PCA
• Project Asset Rotation Days PARD

Key activity descriptions:

• Contribution to Services tendering during Pre-Sales
• Reviews solution summary, offer summary and contract summary with focus on cost base, assumptions and risks. Provides feedback to tender team based on analysis.
• Ensures that Cost & Progress related deliverables in PTA are handed over by tender team as per guidelines
• End-to-end Project Cost & Progress Management set-up
• Creates project* cost management structure proposal, for F&C of the CT approval, in line with project cost management guidelines including WBS / care contract structure and service order setup to manage project* costs on required functional and/or geographical dimensions and required cost management components for transparency and control.
• Creates approved project* cost management structure in SAP P20.
• Creates cost planning and cost management structure in cost management tool that is fully aligned with SAP P20 for transparent cost management.
• Ensures proper project resource handling setup by providing necessary information to WTR Key User
• Instructs the execution team and Logistics on how to book costs correctly against the created structure
• Supports COM / SBM in finalizing cost baseline and risk contingency from as sold cost estimate and implement them into the tools and systems
• Localizes and deploys of cost management processes and tools (SAP P20, CMPro, cost management tool) for the project*.
• Deploys extra works, non conformance cost (NCC) and sellable additional works processes and system setup
• Implements subcontractor and contractor purchase ordering and invoicing processes.
• Supports overall deployment and maintenance of progress tracking processes and tools.

Project Cost & Progress Planning

• Plans project* costs (CBL, EAC) on periodic level for the entire duration of the project in the systems in line with project cost management guidelines, excluding cost center costs (indirect costs).
• Supports SBM in preparation of the delivery schedule
• Monitoring and Controlling project Cost & Progress

Cost:

• Drives for cost consciousness, cost transparency & awareness and increased execution productivity.
• Manages project* cost planning data (CBL, EAC) in the systems.
• Updates project* cost baselines according to approved changes in customer contract and/or project* scope.
• Updates estimate at completion costs regularly to provide latest visibility on total project* costs.
• Manages subcontractor and contractor purchase ordering and invoicing processes. Ensures timely issuing of subcontractor and contractor purchase orders.
• Manages costs related to extra works, non conformance costs (NCC) and sellable additional works, monitors risk contingency usage.
• Controls, reviews and manages open supplier purchase orders.

Progress:

• Manages progress tracking processes and tools (IPM).
• Analyzes influence of variances in project roll-out schedules and lead times.
• Monitors and controls project* progress periodically.
• Reviews cost impact of project* schedule, risks and issues.

Enabling end-to-end project cost visibility

• Prepares periodic cost & progress report for project* towards COM / SBM including CBL, EAC & ETC analysis and actual costs, including complete view of the project*.
• Performs deviation analysis CBL vs. EAC vs. actual costs and identify the reasons for deviations.
• Supports and monitors cost related aspects of cost reduction / transformation programs for project*.
• Supports in reporting of cost related performance indicators.

Risk Management support

• Reviews risks and issues and their impact on project* costs.
• Maintains risk contingency cost information in cost management tool.

Project Closure

• Supports project* closing in the systems to ensure financial closure of WBS / Care contract.
• Manages Service Order closing in SAP P20 for WBS / Care contract.
• Manages WBS element closing in SAP P20 together with Project F&C.
• Supports region PMO in best practice sharing between projects*.
• Performs post cost calculation for project* and provide information back to tendering about actual performance against tendered case and CBL.

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Keyskills :
pmoservice providerscost planningrisk managementcomproject costtransformation programsnetwork operationscost reductioncost controlcost managementeacsapnsnwbscpm