Cost Controller

Snc-Lavalin; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 62,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible benefits

Training & development

Competitive compensation

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in Canada is seeking a Cost Controller to develop, maintain, and improve project cost control systems. You will set up projects, ensure data integrity, and support opening/closing activities while collaborating with project teams.

The role requires 1-2 years of relevant experience, knowledge of EVM, budgeting, forecasting, and strong Excel skills. You will generate monthly reports, dashboards, and contribute to risk and change management.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years in a Cost Controller or related role.
• Understanding of EVM and change management practices.
• Knowledge of cost control principles, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Proficiency in project controls and financial reporting systems, including advanced Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and improve project cost control systems, processes, and procedures.
• Set up and maintain projects in cost control systems, ensuring data integrity and support for opening/closeout activities.
• Track, analyze, and report project expenditures against budgets, forecasts, and commitments.
• Maintain cost accounts, budgets, actuals, accruals, commitments, and prepare monthly cost reports, dashboards, variance analyses, and performance metrics.
• Support earned value, progress, productivity, cash flow, EAC, ETC, and project forecasting activities.
• Analyze cost and schedule performance, identifying variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, discipline leads, planners, procurement personnel, and Project Controls team members to align cost and schedule information.
• Assist in preparation and review of invoices, accruals, financial transactions, and month-end reporting while ensuring policy compliance.
• Support implementation and enhancement of project controls systems and reporting standards.

Skills

Cost control

Earned value management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Communication

Tools

ECOSYS

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Job Description Overview

Come join us in reshaping the future with AtkinsRéalis. AtkinsRéalis is dedicated in engineering a better future for our planet and its people.

Your role

• Develop, maintain, and improve project cost control systems, processes, and procedures;
• Set up and maintain projects in cost control systems, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and support for project opening and closeout activities.
• Track, analyze, and report project expenditures against budgets, forecasts, and commitments;
• Maintain cost accounts, budgets, actuals, accruals, commitments, and prepare monthly cost reports, dashboards, variance analyses, and performance metrics.
• Support earned value, progress, productivity, cash flow, EAC, ETC, and project forecasting activities, including monthly, quarterly, and annual updates;
• Analyze cost and schedule performance, identifying variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support change management processes by tracking, documenting, and assessing project changes, change orders, and their cost, schedule, and forecast impacts;
• Identify risks, issues, and cost-saving opportunities, recommending corrective actions as appropriate.
• Collaborate with Project Managers, discipline leads, planners, procurement personnel, and Project Controls team members to align project cost and schedule information, support progress measurement, schedule-cost integration, project reviews, and client reporting requirements.
• Assist in the preparation and review of invoices, accruals, financial transactions, invoice processing, and month-end reporting activities while ensuring compliance with company financial policies, procedures, contractual obligations, and regulatory requirements.
• Support the implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of project controls systems and tools (e.g., ECOSYS); contribute to reporting standards, best practices, process improvements, and provide ad hoc analysis, management reporting, and special project support.

About you

• 1 - 2 years of previous experience in a Cost Controller or related role
• Understanding of project controls processes, earned value management (EVM), and change management practices.
• Knowledge of project cost control principles, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced project environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in project controls and financial reporting systems, including advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

Rewards & benefits

• Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.
• Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.
• And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time-off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.
• Be rewarded.
• Expected compensation for this role is between $61,900 - $80,000) Base salaries are determined according to several parameters like skills, experience, and potential impact on the role. Internal and external competitiveness are also taken into account in our offers.
• Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives.
• We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

About AtkinsRéalis

We are AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.