About the job

The Real Estate and Workplace Services (REWS) team creates inspiring spaces and innovative services that bring Google’s culture and values to life. We build and maintain all aspects of what keeps our Googley workspaces operating seamlessly across multiple cities and regions globally. We also manage the industry-leading services that help make Google a great place to work, from how we design healthy and collaborative workspaces, create energizing food experiences, provide convenient transportation and fitness options, to delivering environments where Google and our employees can grow.

As an in-house real estate group, our team’s diversified real estate expertise spans asset and portfolio management, transactions, urban planning and design, entitlements, development, construction management and district infrastructure. Program Controls is an essential function, enabling the portfolio to scale efficiently while delivering savings, improving predictability and providing assurance to leadership. Our Real Estate Controls team supports the global REWS capital project portfolio by developing programs, tools, and processes to solve problems, improve governance, build efficiency, and minimize risk for Google.

Responsibilities

• Review and submission of the monthly commercial report for the region. Develop and support the capital plan for the region.

• Review of all capital budget and SAC requests.

• Manage regional cost calculator ownership, updates and maintenance.

• Submit a quarterly SOX Control VOWD and accrual position for all capital projects in the region.

• Search cost management support for specific projects when needed.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Civil/Architectural Engineering, Construction Economics, Urban Planning and Real Estate Development, Quantity Surveyor, or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience managing multinational and dynamic technical programs/projects with engaging resources and priorities.

• Experience with the principles of construction planning and dispute resolution, regional construction markets, methods, practices (including cultural) and standards.

• Experience with general construction management.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or MBA degree with a technical emphasis.

• 7 years of experience as a quantity surveyor, project controls manager, financial analyst, or construction estimator.

• Experience in vendor management and an extended resource model.

• Ability to set strategy, collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization with experience leading cross-functional process improvements and holding project leads accountable to the greater project goals.

• Ability to deliver organizational change, solve problems holistically independent of boundaries, and successfully manage complexity and multiple priorities.

• Excellent influencing and change management skills with Lean Six Sigma.