Project Controls Analyst

Summary

APTIM is a professional solutions firm specializing in environmental, sustainability, resilience, and infrastructure solutions. The Project Controls Analyst will manage project and program cost controls, budgets, forecasts, financial reporting, and performance analysis for environmental and energy projects. The role will partner with Project and Program Managers to identify risks, investigate variances, improve financial performance, and support projects through closeout.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain project financial structures, budgets, forecasts, and cost controls consistent with contract requirements and approved project plans
• Support project setup, including project/task structures, work breakdown structures, funding, budgets, billing requirements, and financial parameters
• Monitor project revenue, costs, contribution margin, labor performance, funding, commitments, and profitability throughout the project lifecycle
• Review project performance against budget, forecast, and prior-period results and identify significant variances
• Partner with Project Managers to develop and maintain accurate Estimate to Complete (ETC) and Estimate at Completion (EAC) forecasts
• Evaluate remaining project scope, staffing requirements, subcontractor costs, expenses, and other anticipated costs when developing forecasts
• Monitor project financial performance and identify emerging risks, opportunities, unfavorable trends, and potential margin erosion
• Recommend corrective actions and work with Project Managers to improve project financial performance
• Support financial management of projects from initial setup through final financial closeout
• Coordinate with Project Managers to review and update ETCs, revenue forecasts, costs, staffing assumptions, and project completion estimates
• Review current-month financial activity for completeness, accuracy, and reasonableness
• Analyze Month-to-Date (MTD), Year-to-Date (YTD), and Inception-to-Date (ITD) project performance
• Identify and investigate significant month-over-month, budget-to-actual, and forecast-to-actual variances
• Coordinate required corrections, reclasses, or financial adjustments with Finance and Accounting
• Provide timely explanations of material project financial variances to Project Managers and management
• Support annual budgeting and periodic forecasting activities for assigned environmental programs and portfolios
• Utilize ERP, project management, and financial systems to extract, validate, reconcile, and analyze project information
• Develop and maintain advanced Microsoft Excel reporting and analytical tools

Skills

• Minimum of 2-5 Years experience working in project controls
• Must have a bachelor's degree
• Demonstrated ability to Use technical concepts and industry standard project management tools and techniques to effectively coordinate project control activities and functions to creatively and effectively solve complex problems and identify correlated data to inform decision making
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to financial data accuracy
• Ability to work across discipline teams to assimilate project data from various sources
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Understands the basic grammar/concepts of multiple professional disciplines and can work across discipline siloed teams to solve complex interrelated problems
• Understanding of various contract structures Fixed Price, Unit Price, Cost Reimbursable and the implications that these structures have on project cost and revenue
• Understanding of the fundamental concepts of accrual basis and double entry accounting
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Familiarity with Power BI Data and extraction of datasets
• Proficient working in JD Edwards or other ERP System
• Communicating with internal and external project stakeholders and Interpreting project cost data at multiple levels of the organization

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Minimum of 2-5 Years experience working in project controls
• Must have a bachelor's degree
• Demonstrated ability to Use technical concepts and industry standard project management tools and techniques to effectively coordinate project control activities and functions to creatively and effectively solve complex problems and identify correlated data to inform decision making
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to financial data accuracy
• Ability to work across discipline teams to assimilate project data from various sources
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
• Understands the basic grammar/concepts of multiple professional disciplines and can work across discipline siloed teams to solve complex interrelated problems
• Understanding of various contract structures Fixed Price, Unit Price, Cost Reimbursable and the implications that these structures have on project cost and revenue
• Understanding of the fundamental concepts of accrual basis and double entry accounting
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Familiarity with Power BI Data and extraction of datasets
• Proficient working in JD Edwards or other ERP System
• Communicating with internal and external project stakeholders and Interpreting project cost data at multiple levels of the organization

Benefits

• Respect and flexibility to live a full life at work and at home
• Investment into your personal and professional development
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance: Through the marketplace, our employees can choose benefits from five metallic levels and several carriers to find the right benefits that work for them in their location.
• Company paid and optional Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave (eligibility based on company policy and applicable law)
• 401(k) APTIM offers three 401k plans through the Aon Pooled Employer Plan (PEP). The specific plan you are eligible for depends on the business unit you are in.