Job Description
Monitors and analyzes project cost estimates, expenditures, and forecasts. Identifies areas of cost savings opportunities and alerts management of any cost variances.
Key Accountabilities
- Collects, maintains, and analyzes planned vs. actual cost for assigned capital projects.
- Reports variances to project management team with detailed commentary to support process outputs.
- Assist the project management team as needed in the overall financial processes.
- Supports contract administration in the change control process by performing cost reviews.
- Reports & analyzes key performance metrics; prepare ad hoc analyses as requested by project management.
- Alert Project Managers and management of potential project overruns and provide recommendations on forecast placeholders.
- Review project charges for inaccuracies or mischarges.
- Review progress payments to ensure there is a clear understanding of when the milestone will be met, and expenses should be accounted for.
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting or Finance with 5 years of job-relevant experience
Preferred
- 5 years of Financial experience
- MBA and/or CPA
- Professional certification in cost control (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering or equivalent);
- Experience in operating system software utilized by the Corporation (e.g Maximo, SAP R/3, SRM, BW)
- Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) certification
- Proficient in Earned Value Analysis
- Provides weekly reporting Purchase Order analysis
- Attend construction field updates and apply progress towards data
- Proficient in Excel - Power Query
- Expertise with utilizing Databases
- SAP Work Mgt system
- Exposure to Primavera P6
- Analysis of Unbilled Liabilities, Timing
- Experience with PowerBI
Other Requirements
- Written and verbal communication & advocacy skills consistent with the ability to present results of projects & research to all levels of the business unit, and engage in persuasive written & verbal interaction.
- Intermediate-to-advanced analytical and project management skills.
- Working knowledge of financial & economic analysis, project & risk management.
- Ability to analyze complex financial data & develop optimal recommendations & solutions.
- Ability to work in a 'team' and/or 'matrixed' structure, supporting multiple clients, procedures & policy.
- Copes with multiple demands from superiors, and/or subordinates & peers in a positive and evenhanded fashion; displays a calm demeanor under pressure.
- Well-developed organization and planning skills (typically acquired through at least 5 years of experience).
- Ability to apply project planning & implementation and/or continuous improvement principles (typically acquired through several years of experience in these areas) to affect tangible, positive outcomes.
- Proficiency in Excel, Word, and SAP sufficient to apply/support them with minimal instruction or guidance; this level of proficiency is typically attainable through 3+ year(s) of substantive experience with the applications