Junior IT Project Controller - 181882

• Reporting to the Project Controls - Manager, Project Controls East.
• The Project Controller is responsible for providing detailed capital project cost support, including purchase requisitions, invoice attestation to ensure monitoring, forecasting and controlling of the project budget., * Conduct accounting transfers to ensure proper cost placement.
• Maintain work orders through SAP/PowerPlan.
• Project Initiation including SAP/PowerPlan.
• Continuously work on requisition closeout.
• Partner with Field Material Coordinator to ensure materials tracking is performed.
• Coordinate with Project Team to review data to ensure commitments, schedule requirements, and risk items are accurately represented in the project forecast.
• Collaborate with the Project Manager and team to define construction cost tracking based on purchase order terms ensuring proper link with schedule.
• Track use of contingency, management reserve, and approved changes to project budget.
• Analyze, track, and report project (or contract specific) financial KPIs, and communicate their status to the project team.
• Contribute to and implement Project Delivery requirements (i.e. PDS, TOMS and any applicable TransCanada Project Delivery requirement)
• Participate in project meetings; gather, prepare, and analyze data for Quantitative or Qualitative Risk Assessments.
• Ensure risk information is incorporated into the project forecast.
• Resolve unexpected items or inaccuracies in forecast data.
• Support the Project Manager by providing financial reporting requirements for bidding, during contract selection and administration of the contracts as required.
• Perform Final Cost Reconciliation.
• Secure records properly and in compliance with TransCanada’s requirements.
• Identify opportunities for improvement to forecasting and other project cost control methodologies and document as lessons learned.
• Maintain high level of focus on health, safety, and environment.
• Other tasks as required.

Do you have experience in Employee relationship building?, * Requires a Degree in Accounting, Business Management, Engineering or Project Management degree preferred; a university degree, with 4 or more years of related experience with cost control concepts and practices on capital projects. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered

• Experienced with Excel spreadsheets, word processing and database software; proficient in use of PC; willingness to use and learn current and future systems/applications.
• Knowledgeable and experienced with cost engineering principles and methods including budgeting and forecasting, change management, management systems/procedures, Cost and Work Breakdown Structures, Earned Value Systems and contingency management.
• Experience with Microsoft Desktop software, Windows, Word, Excel, and Power Point.

Qualifications:

• Proven supportive team member who helps oversee, lead, advise and motivate a work team.
• Exhibits the behaviors valued in the organization.
• Knowledge and some experience with project and portfolio management processes, policies and principles.
• Written, verbal, presentation and electronic communication skills; ability to communicate with all levels of the Project Controls and Project Management organization effectively.
• Maintains on going, positive presence with project team members, other stakeholders, and outside entities, i.e. Construction Contractors, vendors, through professional communications; able to work toward resolution of situations with all parties.
• Ability to analyze project cost data/status and to communicate those findings to Project Management.
• Ability to receive and work with minimal supervision.
• Working knowledge of how to assess the relationship between cost and schedule data; communicates that assessment to Project Management, supervisors, and other members of the Project Team.
• Working knowledge of how to recognize and evaluate risks, hazards, losses and their cost impact
• Working knowledge of the principles of version control and the change management processes.
• Ability to work well with all levels of the Company, especially within the Project Team as well as contract personnel to facilitate the accomplishment of project work.
• Must be able to process information and make decisions under stress, obtaining project management buy-in on those decisions.
• Organized and able to manage varied tasks and identify appropriate prioritization for timely execution.
• Team player; interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Must be results oriented and possess sound problem-solving skills.
• Requires an aptitude for attention to detail, accuracy, precision and logic.
• Ability to work independently and on teams.
• Willingness to travel as needed.
• Provides high level of quality of cost reports and forecasts.

$34.21 an hour - Contract, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance