BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Project Controller

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group  •  Copenhagen, DK (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Want to join one of the world’s leading architectural firms and gain high‑impact commercial experience? BIG Copenhagen is looking for an ambitious, proactive and outgoing Project Controller to join our Project Controlling Team.

In Project Controlling, our mission is simple: protect and grow project profitability. We act as finance business partners on BIG’s project teams—driving budgets, analyzing performance, influencing strategy, and ensuring high quality financial data that directly impacts revenue and EBIT.

As a Project Controller, you will own your own partner portfolio, collaborate closely with Partners and senior stakeholders, and play a central role in monthly closing and forecasting. You will provide data-driven insights, challenge assumptions, and help shape the commercial performance of some of the world’s most exciting architecture projects.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy taking ownership, and want a role that blends finance, strategy, and project collaboration — this is your opportunity.

Primary areas of responsibility:

  • Manage end-to-end project setup: creation, budgets, timelines
  • Continuously challenge project assumptions, cost and revenue drivers to ensure strong financial performance.
  • Supporting Project Managers and Partners in project bookings, budgets, performance, forecasting and receivables, including follow-up on outstanding payments and ensuring timely cash collection
  • Owning and driving monthly budget update meetings for your portfolio, ensuring clear financial direction, alignment with Partners and Project Managers, and follow-up on key commercial actions
  • Driving the monthly closing process for your portfolio, ensuring accuracy, transparency and timely delivery
  • Identifying risks and opportunities, including follow-up on additional scope and fees
  • Handle invoicing of contract work and reimbursables, including client and subcontractor correspondence
  • Responsible for Work-in-Progress (WIP), revenue, and profit‑contributing project reporting for your portfolio.
  • Ensuring access for time registration on projects for employees
  • Training new employees using our digital tools and general Project Controlling understanding
  • Various ad hoc analytics and reporting

We are seeking a person who:

  • Hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Architecture or other relevant field of study
  • Experience within Project, Finance or Business Controlling is a plus
  • Fluent in spoken/written English
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially highly proficient in Excel
  • Enjoy a busy and creative environment with many personalities
  • Is comfortable with fast-paced decisions and rapidly changing environments
  • A calm demeanor and an eye for details, even under pressure
  • A proactive and organized mindset - both big-picture-savvy and detail-oriented
  • Has a strong commercial mindset and is able to challenge stakeholders constructively and influence decisions
  • Thrives in a structured environment with recurring deadlines, particularly within monthly financial processes

Application:

We wish to fill this position ASAP so do not delay with your application! Interviews are conducted on an ongoing basis. We reserve the right to remove the posting as soon as the right candidate has been found.

Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we value, celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender.

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

About BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Zurich, and Bhutan-based global architecture firm operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior design, landscape design, product design, and research & development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania.

BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economic flows, and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored.

A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking, and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we as architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet to better fit contemporary life forms.

BIG is committed to supporting its new parents and their families, and is a proud member of Pledge Parental Leave. While on leave, BIGsters will continue to receive all employee benefits previously provided including health insurance and will remain eligible for salary increases and bonuses, as well as 52 weeks of job security. We offer 18 weeks of total paid leave in addition to accrued vacation to extend the paid leave for primary caregivers, and 4 weeks paid leave for secondary caregivers.

Industry
Architecture & Engineering
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
Year Founded
2006
Website
big.dk
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