Construction Controls Manager

Micron Technology is seeking a Construction Controls Manager for its Finance - Global Construction Controller team, supporting regional construction projects in Japan/North Asia. The role involves driving financial construction controls across a regional portfolio, analyzing budgets and spending to meet corporate targets, and improving operational performance. Key responsibilities include acting as a liaison between Finance and construction teams, generating project dashboards, ensuring accurate financial reporting, developing accurate baseline and forecasted costs, improving capital allocation compliance, and ensuring adherence to construction processes. The manager will also identify risks and opportunities to optimize cost, schedule, and cashflow.

Must Have

• Lead construction capital spend and improve operational performance
• Drive financial construction controls across a regional construction portfolio
• Analyze construction budgets and spending to meet corporate targets and cash flow needs
• Act as a key liaison between Finance and construction teams
• Partner with global and regional Construction Controllers
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration
• Attend project meetings to gather real-time insights on progress, risks, and opportunities
• Highlight opportunities to reduce risk and improve cost, schedule, and cashflow
• Generate and maintain project dashboards on construction cost, schedule, cashflow, and risk
• Ensure accurate reporting of actual and forecast values and explain variances
• Maintain financial transparency across construction projects
• Partner with construction teams to develop accurate baseline and forecasted costs
• Validate estimates and improve forecast accuracy
• Collect and maintain historical data including costs, schedules, and scope
• Drive for best-in-class construction and facility cost by understanding competitive benchmarks and internal objectives
• Improve capital allocation processes compliance (e.g., initial approvals and change management)
• Develop budget walks and lessons learned with construction teams
• Leverage and align construction and capital finance tools (Procore, SAP, Snowflake)
• Ensure adherence with Micron construction processes across jurisdictions
• Participate in project control improvement efforts leveraging best practices
• Analyze project data and reports to identify risks and opportunities
• Bachelor’s degree in construction, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Experience in project controls, quantity surveying, financial management focused on construction
• Expertise in capital project controls or quantity surveying (estimating, scheduling, cost control, earned value, risk management)
• Proficiency in analytical and data visualization tools
• Demonstrated use of AI tools
• Experience overseeing financial expenditure on large capital programs in manufacturing, semiconductor, or high-tech industries
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement in Japanese and English

Good to Have

• MBA

Perks & Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Continuous Learning
• Wellness Programs
• Stock Purchase Program
• Health Insurance
• Recognition

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

We are building one of the most exciting multi-billion-dollar construction programs in the world.

The Finance - Global Construction Controller team is looking for a Construction Controls Manager to support regional (Japan/North Asia) construction projects. We are looking for a person who has successfully led construction capital spend, improving operational performance, and delivering outstanding outcomes.

The Construction Controls Manager drives financial construction controls across a regional construction portfolio. You will work in a fast-paced and multifaceted environment influencing decisions and driving outcomes. You will analyze construction budgets and spending, ensuring investments meet corporate targets and cash flow needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a key liaison between Finance and construction teams
• Partner with our global team of regional Construction Controllers
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration
• Attend construction project meetings to collect real time views of progress, risks, and opportunities
• Highlight opportunities to reduce risk and improve cost, schedule, and cashflow

Financial Management & Reporting:

• Generate and maintain project dashboards on construction cost, schedule, cashflow and risk
• Ensure accurate reporting of actual and forecast values. Evaluate and explain variances
• Maintain financial transparency across construction projects

Budgeting & Forecasting:

• Partner with construction teams to develop accurate baseline and forecasted costs
• Validate estimates and improve forecast accuracy
• Collect and maintain historical data including costs, schedules, and scope
• Drive for best-in-class construction and facility cost by understanding competitive benchmarks and internal objectives

Capital Governance:

• Improve capital allocation processes compliance (e.g. initial approvals and change management) to achieve greater value for the company
• Develop budget walks and lessons learned with construction teams during project execution and at project completion
• Leverage and align construction and capital finance tools (Procore, SAP, Snowflake)

Compliance & Controls

• Ensure adherence with Micron construction processes across jurisdictions
• Participate in project control improvement efforts leveraging best practices
• Analyze project data and reports to identify risks and opportunities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in construction, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Experience in project controls, quantity surveying, financial management focused on construction
• Expertise in capital project controls or quantity surveying (e.g. estimating, scheduling, cost control, earned value, risk management)
• Proficiency in analytical and data visualization tools
• Demonstrated use of AI tools
• Experience overseeing financial expenditure on large capital programs in manufacturing, semiconductor, or high-tech industries
• Ambitious, intellectually curious, high-energy level, passionate about identifying and implementing improvement opportunities
• Ability to perform in an environment characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement in Japanese and English
• Ability to build strong interpersonal relationships
• Organized and meticulous, with a strong focus on accuracy
• Experience within or exposure to finance, accounting, financial controlling
• MBA a plus

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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