Project Controls Professional

Stantec; Dartmouth; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, invites a Project Controls Professional to join our integrated project team. You will provide financial analysis, control expenditures, deliver cost forecasts, and support budget objectives across projects.

Collaborate with project managers and the finance team to maintain accurate status, risks, and variances. Prepare monthly reports, participate in audits, and help with revenue tracking and budgeting processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial analysis and budgeting for projects.
• Ability to produce timely cost forecasts and variance reports.
• Familiarity with earned value, risk registers and performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Project Manager to ensure ISO standards compliance and prepare monthly status reports.
• Oversee documentation control coordination including specifications and submittals.
• Provide monthly/quarterly/yearly financial analysis and reports for leadership.
• Track overhead labor and expenses, monitor variances to budgets, and aid revenue forecasting.
• Support business development by maintaining pursuit tracking and project sheets.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Earned value

Reporting

Project controls

Job description

Your Opportunity

As an integrated project team member, the Project Controls Professional provides financial analysis, accurate commitment and expenditure information, performance data, timely cost forecasts, and forward-looking advice to Project Management to support achievement of budget objectives. Project Controls can best achieve these objectives by:

• Fully understanding the scope of the project.
• Actively participating in development of project estimates, proposals, budgets and schedules.
• Working closely with the project team to maintain a current and accurate understanding of project status, issues and changes.
• Communicating effectively with internal team members, leadership, financial managers, external clients and consultants.
• Producing understandable, timely and useful reports including earned value, potential change order logs, risk registers, estimates to complete, variance reports, etc.
• Being vigilant and keeping the project team informed of barriers to maintaining the budget and schedule.
• Working with Stantec financial team to issue timely project invoices, follow up on AR, and monitor consultant budgets and agreements.
• Developing and optimizing Project Controls processes and system(s).

Your Key Responsibilities

Project Management Assistance

• Collaborate with Project Manager for compliance of Stantec ISO standards for Project Management, including participation in audits.
• Prepare monthly status reports related to cost, schedule, progress, budget, forecast, and manpower.
• Oversee and assist with coordination of document control requirements (specifications, RFI’s, submittals, revision control).

Business Center Leadership Assistance

• Report to the Project Controls Manager and Operations Leader to help address financial project matters.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial analysis for distribution.
• Prepare understandable and timely reports for Business Center Operations Leader and Principal group.
• Prepare monthly reports for overhead labor and expenses and notify leadership of trends and anomalies.
• Work with finance team and office leadership to track variances to project budgets.
• Assist with periodic Business Center revenue forecasts and budgeting.
• Review weekly time expenditures for overhead and marketing and notify leadership of anomalies and errors.

Support Business Development Functions

• Create and maintain project pursuits in pursuit tracking software.
• Maintain resumes and project sheets.