Senior Controls Specialist
5000 DOMINION BLVD Glen Allen, VA 23060 US
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Working under minimal supervision, the Cost & Project Analyst acts as the financial advisor to the integrated project team.
- Support services include standard and ad hoc financial analysis focused on tracking project performance and anticipating problem conditions.
- This challenging role requires knowledge of accounting concepts and adherence to established policies while exercising creativity to assess problems and recommend solutions.
- Provides current status of programs/projects to Finance Manager and Digital Project Manager.
- Develop, implement and coordinate planning, estimating, and forecasting for SLR Digital projects.
- Develop and review project estimates.
- Monitor actual project cost and/or work status data to ensure projects proceed on schedule and within budget and provide status reports to management.
- Provide contract administration such as preparing purchase order requisitions, validating invoices and working with vendors to resolve issues.
- Implement, evaluate and monitor controls systems.
- Conduct meetings with vendors and company stakeholders on control matters.
- Implement control policy and procedures.
Other related duties include:
- Produces timely monthly reports and ensures formal communication of detailed variance analysis on a monthly basis. Provides supporting documentation to track project variances throughout the project lifecycle and for financial transactions.
- Coordinates the preparation of the Digital annual budget, monthly forecasts, and rider filing data.
- Prepares monthly forecast for assigned projects and ensures inputs are provide in a timely manner into the capital system (CAPS) and ensures all data is provided for executive requests for funding approval through the Project Funding Review Board.
- Ensures data integrity as it relates to reporting and analytics.
- Ability to develop Ad Hoc MS Excel models to summarize large data sets.
- Ability to handle complex work and all aspects of the job using wide knowledge of the field and mastery
- Self-starter and makes decisions independently.
- Strong attention to detail and high ethical standards.
- Ability to work as part of team of managers and technical personnel.
- Proactive in identifying and solving problems of high complexity.
- Strong organizational skills and analytical / logical approach.
- Ability to synthesize diverse information (technical, schedule, and cost) and exercise good judgment.
- Ability to consistently deliver accurate financial reporting.
- Proficient in Excel and SAP
- What soft skill requirements do you have (team fit and personality requirements)?
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written
- Ability to lead, collaborate, or work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams
- Nice to Have Skills:
- SAP, Excel, Power Query
High Level Project Overview:
- Serve as Digital Team Cost Controls Analyst to support Project Managers with multi-million dollar capital projects.
Preferred Years of Experience:
- 5+
Education:
- Bachelors degree plus 5 years of cost or finance experience or estimating experience or equivalent combination of education/experience.
- Other education - Accounting, Business, Finance, Construction management.
- Are there any specific companies/industries youd like to see in the candidates experience?
- Nuclear, Construction, Manufacturing, Utility
- Preferred Interview Process Overview (High level):
- TEAMS Meeting
- At any time is overtime required or would you say it is just available as a function of the job?Peak periods, such as month end, yearend, budget planning periods
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