Senior Cost Control Engineer

Overview

Our team in Brazil is growing, we are currently recruiting for a Senior Cost Control Engineer to join our Minerals & Metals Business line in São Paulo.

About the role:

We are looking for a Capital Projects Financial Control Specialist with solid experience in CAPEX and OPEX management. This professional will be responsible for structuring and maintaining the financial controls of projects, ensuring integration between contracts, budgets, and disbursements, as well as cost predictability throughout the project lifecycle. With a strong focus on governance, accuracy, and value generation, this role will be central to ensuring transparency of information, supporting decision-making, and guaranteeing that financial objectives are aligned with organizational strategies and client expectations.

• Develop, consolidate, and monitor financial controls of capital projects (CAPEX and OPEX).

• Ensure traceability between contracts, purchase orders, disbursements, and the approved budget.

• Monitor and report cost variations, proposing action plans to mitigate deviations.

• Support the approval process of change orders, ensuring financial impact analysis.

• Prepare financial performance reports (financial S-curves, disbursement forecasts, cash flow).

• Develop and update CAPEX forecasts aligned with the physical progress reported by planning.

• Conduct contingency, financial risk, and management reserve analyses.

• Support internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with corporate standards and policies.

• Create executive dashboards for management, PMO, and clients, translating technical data into strategic information.

• Act as a link between engineering, procurement, planning, and finance, ensuring data integration and consistency.

• Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, or related fields.

• Proven experience in financial control of capital projects (mining, energy, infrastructure, oil & gas, or industrial).

• Proficiency in Advanced Excel, Power BI, and data analysis tools.

• Experience with corporate ERPs (SAP, Oracle, or equivalents).

• Knowledge of project management concepts: CAPEX, OPEX, cash flow, contingencies, reserves, and financial performance indicators.

• Familiarity with Project Controls practices, physical-financial integration, and executive reporting.

• Desirable certification or knowledge of PMI, AACE, or similar methodologies

Note on the nature of the contract: This is a permanent position, initially assigned to a strategic project with an expected duration of approximately two years. While the initial assignment is directly related to this project, there is a possibility of extension or reassignment to other future initiatives, depending on company needs and the professional’s performance.

We support individual growth and aim to allow you to work in a way that plays to your strengths and cover your needs. Get to know our value proposition:

• Compensation and work life balance – Beyond a competitive remuneration package. Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model, allowing you to balance office days with working from home. Enjoy the benefits of modern leave policies including paid parental leave and celebrate with us special holidays.

• Career advancement - Be supported in your ongoing development with technical training, mentoring programs and frequent networking opportunities.

• Balance and Wellness – Take a proactive approach to your overall wellbeing. Access to confidential counselling, health services and a benefits program that supports your needs.

• Recognition and Appreciation - Participate in multidirectional spaces where a culture of local and global recognition is fostered, where everyone is recognized for their contribution to the business and projects.

• Communication and Commitment – Live the experience of working in a dynamic company with global processes and work with highly reputable industry leaders who value your contribution.

Our people don’t settle for the status quo. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to help set a new standard in sustainability, we’ll help you find your place. This means working with you to develop a unique career path and skillset to match your ambition.

We’re proud of the work we do, and we do it within a culture that is open, honest, and cooperative. We have a history of attracting visionary people who embrace challenges and deliver creative solutions for every project, and your voice is an important part of the conversation.

As a global company we embrace and encourage diversity in its fullest sense – gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, experience, nationality, colour, language, religion, location, disability, education, skills, working styles and time availability. Our work environments are based on mutual trust and respect for the rights and opportunities of every individual.

Join us and work a better way.

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