Rail & Transit Project Controls Lead

TYLin; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

TYLin is seeking a Project Controls Manager for the Rail and Transit Sector in the NY/Northeast area. This role interfaces with the Sector Manager, Project Managers and Project Accountants to manage project accounting and financial operations reporting, coordinating with client stakeholders and subconsultants on administrative tasks.

You will oversee A/R, WIP, forecasting, KPI tracking, and project dashboards, applying Earned Value Management techniques to ensure accurate financial performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business/finance or engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years of related work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in finance and/or project accounting.
• Must be proficient using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• General finance matters in support of New York/Northeast (NY/NE) Sector Manager.
• Tracking and Status of A/R and WIP for the NY/NE area.
• Preparation of input for financial forecasting and planning for the NY/NE area.
• Review and tracking of all KPIs for the NY/NE area.
• Support of Pricing and Capture processes.
• Coordination with finance (month end close process, ensure accuracy and complete revenue and financial performance).
• NY/NE area reporting (utilization, project status, financial, etc.).
• Project Performance/Budget Analysis review.
• Work directly with Project Managers to develop appropriate project set-up, implementation, and management of Project financial tracking and control systems, using Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Support Project Managers in an assigned segment of the business.
• Review of and recommendations to manage contract-specific requirements, regarding the staffing expectations by project for titles/rate caps to optimize project profitability.
• Review of and recommendations to manage contract-specific requirements regarding payment terms, invoicing cycle, and invoicing requirements to reduce DSO, short-pays, and inaccurate/incomplete invoicing.
• Foster billing and collections process set up at project inception to ensure client requirements and procedures are met, proper level of responsibility for team members are assigned, and action items/flow process is defined before project starts.
• Work with Operations and Accounting groups and clients to track invoice progression and assist in working towards reducing overall A/R and WIP DSO.
• Recommend updates to project dashboards to increase visibility of project commercial performance.
• Support project teams with project financial reporting, develop Cost to Complete (CTC’s) estimates, billing rate updates/escalation processes, invoicing and collections.
• Assist in contract administration, changes, subcontracts administration, changes order development.
• Prepare and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations as needed.
• Meet regularly with appropriate project personnel to discuss support needs; and become familiar with key clients’ processes for billings, approvals and collections.
• Assist with compilation of CTC’s and project Estimates-to-Complete (EAC’s) monthly.
• Coordination and support for overall area as it relates to Business Development, Human Resources, Legal and Finance.
• Special projects as assigned.

Skills

Strong communication

Interfacing with stakeholders

Project controls

Excel proficiency

PowerPoint proficiency

Earned Value Management (EVM)

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance or engineering

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

TYLin is seeking a Project Controls Manager for the Rail and Transit Sector in the NY/Northeast area. This role interfaces with the Sector Manager, Project Managers and Project Accountants to manage project accounting and financial operations reporting, coordinating with client stakeholders and subconsultants on administrative tasks.

You will oversee A/R, WIP, forecasting, KPI tracking, and project dashboards, applying Earned Value Management techniques to ensure accurate financial performance