Project Controls Engineer - ENS (Contract)

Burns & McDonnell; Mumbai; On-site; INR 500,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns & McDonnell is seeking a Project Controls Analyst in Mumbai, India. This role involves maintaining project financial data and ensuring financial integrity. You will facilitate budgeting and cost control, analyze expenditures, and provide insights through reporting.

The ideal candidate has 1-3 years of experience in project controls, a Bachelor's degree, and strong Excel skills. Familiarity with EcoSys and project management tools is highly preferred. This is a full-time position with no travel required.

Qualifications

• 1 to 3 years of experience in project controls, project cost analysis, or commercial project support.
• Ideal experience within an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain project records, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS).
• Facilitate budget modifications, track actual expenditures, and perform variance analyses.
• Generate standard cost reports and translate complex financial data into actionable insights.
• Monitor internal project change requests and ensure financial traceability.
• Assist in EcoSys setup, testing, and minor configuration updates.

Skills

Foundational Cost Knowledge

Advanced Excel skills

Analytical Mindset

Proactive Communicator

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Commerce, Sciences, or a related field

Tools

EcoSys

Primavera P6

Oracle Unifier

SAP Cost Management

Job description

Description

We are seeking a driven, analytical, and detail-oriented Project Controls Analyst to join our dedicated Project Controls team. This role is integral to our project delivery success, where you will help drive financial integrity across our project portfolio. You will be responsible for maintaining, updating, and managing project financial data, structures, and reporting within our central project portfolio management platform, EcoSys.

This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented professional with a strong foundation in project cost concepts to master an enterprise-grade platform and support our global project teams in delivering critical infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data and Project Management in EcoSys: Create and maintain project records, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Cost Breakdown Structures (CBS), and internal cost codes. Ensure Work Authorization Forms (WAFs) are accurately reflected in the system.
• Budgeting and Cost Control: Facilitate budget modifications, track actual expenditures, monitor commitments, and perform periodic variance analyses to provide early warnings on potential overruns and inform corrective actions.
• Reporting and Analysis: Generate standard cost reports and ad-hoc analyses for project managers and clients. Translate complex financial data into actionable insights for decision-making.
• Change Management: Monitor and record internal project change requests, mapping approved changes directly to active project budgets and contingency funds within EcoSys to ensure financial traceability.
• System and Configuration Support: Assist senior system administrators in EcoSys setup, testing, system upgrades, and minor configuration updates to enhance system functionality and user experience.

Technical & Soft Skills:

• Foundational Cost Knowledge: A firm grasp of fundamental project cost control concepts (e.g., budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, WBS, and Earned Value Metrics).
• Software Familiarity: Prior hands-on exposure to EcoSys is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with other Project Portfolio Management (PPM) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools (such as Primavera P6, Oracle Unifier, or SAP Cost Management) is beneficial.
• Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, complex formulas, data analysis) are required.
• Analytical Mindset: Strong logical reasoning with the ability to identify anomalies, patterns, and trends in financial datasets.
• Detail-Oriented: A keen eye for data integrity, ensuring database naming conventions and budget configurations are precise and consistently applied.
• Proactive Communicator: Comfortable collaborating with multi-disciplinary stakeholders, including project managers, engineers, and financial analysts, to resolve issues and provide support.

Qualifications

• Experience: 1 to 3 years of experience in project controls, project cost analysis, or commercial project support, ideally within an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) environment.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Commerce, Sciences, or a related field.

Primary Location: India-Maharashtra-Mumbai

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: No