Summary: Works with Engineering Project Managers to provide cost controls support on projects.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Advanced skills of a cost analyst; ability to provide cost controls support on projects
- Comfortable evaluating and communicating cost impact of scope changes, contract values, cost trend impacts, allowances for design unknowns, escalation, contingency and fee structure to the department head and management.
- Facilitates project approval in system; assists in coding and tracking of all invoices, including retainage payments; verifies rates are correct per contract and the invoice; tracks Actuals and Commitments in detail for the project;
- Works closely with the Project Manager to provide an updated forecast monthly for the project
- Provides significant project metrics as requested; provides quarterly accruals for the project;
- Assists in tracking and managing purchase orders, contracts and/or work offers; manages any necessary re-classes for the project; manages documentation to be retained for project file.
- Can adapt and work through ad-hoc requests as needed
Requirements:
Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, construction management or business, or additional equivalent business experience.
- MS Office Suite experience, especially Excel.
- Comfortable in financial software packages.
- Exhibits strong communication and interpersonal skills, strong ability to apply judgment, and professionally challenge and question both basic and complicated activity and assumptions.
- Able to communicate with Analyst and Project Managers and solve project related issues
Required experience is commensurate with the selected job level:
- The Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 2-5 years of relevant job related experience
- The Senior Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 5-8 years of relevant job related experience
- The Lead Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and 8+ years of relevant job related experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Pipeline industry experience
- Intermediate level of Excel: pivot tables and the manipulation of large amounts of data
- SAP systems experience
EOE