Project Cost Controls Manager, HV/BESS

SOLV Energy • Edison, NJ

70d • $125,768 - $167,272

About The Position

The Project Cost Controls Manager works under the guidance of our Project Controls Director and in partnership with our Operations Team and Financial Planning and Analysis Department to establish and manage processes that will monitor, report and control project costs across the enterprise. This position oversees the project Controls Portfolio to provide data-driven analysis used to advise Project Health and develop strategies for operational improvements and future business initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or minimum of 5+ years of directly comparable experience.
• Demonstrated experience in construction cost management or other business preferred.
• Strong technical proficiencies with project management principles including change management, commitments, budgeting, monthly forecasting, and management software including CMiC.
• Experience partnering with internal stakeholders to identify objectives and work cohesively together to complete identified objectives.
• Strong communication skills, including virtual conferencing.
• Experienced in Microsoft Excel.
• Data driven and analytical mindset.
• Strong data management skills and creativity in business problem solving.
• Detail-oriented, motivated self-starter.
• Ability to travel as needed to successfully fulfill responsibilities and duties.

Responsibilities

• Reports directly into the Director of Project Controls and works cross-functionally with Accounting, FP&A, Operations Project Management Office (PMO) and Operations team on portfolio cost-control, forecasting and cost reporting.
• Measures and reports project earned value analysis.
• Utilizes project management software and financial tools to analyze project costs, budgets, productivity, and forecasts.
• Oversees the budget mapping process, ensuring fiscal responsibility and accuracy across the department.
• Develops and maintains cost tracking and reporting systems to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Assists in the development, documentation, and maintenance of internal controls over financial reporting to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act.
• Coordinates, facilitates, and participates in monthly forecast meetings, and delivers Monthly Reporting package.
• Collaborates with project managers and other stakeholders to gather cost data and provide insights into cost trends.
• Identifies opportunities for cost savings and process improvements through data analysis.
• Assists in the development of project budgets and forecasts.
• Supports project teams in understanding and interpreting cost data to make informed decisions.
• Builds data models to assist pre-construction, and estimating teams leading to improved budgets, and estimates.
• Implements an earned value management system to improve project cost management and identify business risks early.
• Contributes to lessons learned sessions and root cause analysis for improvement, mitigate risk and enhance project cost management processes.
• Improves and maintains the EPC project analytics system.
• Utilizes statistical and project controls analysis methods to continually improve and optimize project analysis processes.
• Sets up meetings with Operations Teams to innovate and improve processes related to project cost analysis.
• Provides data analytics support to all business units, leveraging advanced data visualization tools to uncover insight and optimize decision making processes.
• Develops a system with data quality measures to generate reporting for accounting purposes.
• Actively engages in field improvements by going out to the field to understand struggles, work on solutions, build trust, and be seen as a resource for project teams.
• Contributes to forward thinking project selection and innovation discussions.
• Implements predictive analytics models to forecast future project cost based on historical data and key project parameters.
• Conducts detailed analysis, providing insights on spend trajectory and identifying areas for optimization.
• Helps identify key risks where projects could fail, and ways to stress-test them as quickly as possible.
• Grows analytics expertise around you, upskilling your team, analysts, and others, to increase overall team impact.
• Trains and supervises analysts to ensure efficient and effective project cost analysis.

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan.
• Provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree