Project Cost Controller

Phasor Engineering Inc•Calgary, AB

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Phasor Engineering is a dynamic North America based company specializing in engineering, design, panel fabrication, and testing/commissioning of high voltage electrical facilities. Their focus is to incorporate the latest technological advances to provide cost-effective and efficient solutions to power system engineering, leading to involvement in diverse projects from conceptual engineering through to commissioning and startup. The Project Controller is a key team member whose overarching objective is to support the project by establishing a clear and connected flow of information from Operations to Accounting by means of both systems and processes. This full-time role is based out of the Calgary, AB, office, will be billable to the project whenever possible, and will be accounted for at the time of project estimation. Each Project Controller is to support 2 Phasor divisions.

Requirements

Three (3) plus years in a similar role

Responsibilities

Act as the critical linkage that allows for a project to be setup in JDE based on information provided in Project Pulse.
Act as the gatekeepers of allowing projects to go live and ensure that all critical features of project setups are populated prior to migrating the data to JDE and allowing timesheet charges.
Have a cursory understanding of the work being performed and walk through the WO/WBS/budgets, Schedule of values and invoicing terms, Force Account Rates, Contract types, and Project Information housed in Project Pulse.
Perform the actual setup of the project in JDE and ensure 100% alignment in Project Pulse.
Create project folder structure (Currently in Data3, in future likely Sharepoint).
Perform QA on data validity between Project Pulse and JDE (Correct transactions amounts, Correct Markups, Correct dates, Correct allocations).
Coordinate with procurement and AP for revisions.
Review receiving reports.
Flag any budgetary issues on weekly variance summaries to PM’s.
Generate and prepare client invoices via Project Pulse as per invoicing terms and PM direction.
Generate invoice reference from JDE and apply to Project Pulse Invoice.
Track billing milestones and contract payment terms.
Follow up on outstanding receivables and escalate to PM as needed.
Track purchase order status and align them with project budgets and cost code allocation.
Assist with reconciliation of PO commitments vs actuals to reduce open values when N/A.
Ensure proper approval workflows are followed.
Flag any budgetary issues on weekly variance summaries to PM’s.
Review and maintain the Goods Received Not Vouchered account.
Upon PM progress collection, payroll posting, and 3rd party cost migration, highlight variances (over/under) and coordinate with PMs for corrective actions.
Perform trend analysis based on burn rates and month/month changes and hypothetical scenario analysis.
Highlight areas of clear trend direction.
Monitor and document project scope changes in change log as support to Project Manager.
Setup new cost codes and/or work orders to facilitate tracking with compliance to our WBS and system requirements.
Coordinate the move of timesheets to correct cost codes as support to PM.
Update current budgets as changes are approved by client.