Project Controls Financial Analyst - Principal

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionJob Summary
The Principal Project Controls Financial Analyst – will perform financial tracking, reporting, and analysis to support project team, includes annual project specific budgets between $50M to $100M in range at various stages of the lifecycle. The Principal Project Controls Financial Analyst also acts as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in project cost control and supports the group with establishing standardized project cost control best practices and manages project cost reporting.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
N/A

Key Responsibilities:
• Tracks, reports, and analyzes financial and operational performance of projects and programs.
• Coordinates and prepares operating budget.
• Performs monthly budget variance analysis and reports.
• Supports team to provide project governance, financial support, document management, change control, and contractor on/off-boarding across Gas Transmission Projects & P/I.
• Proactively administer/monitor contract administration activities for the portfolio of projects, MSA review with contractor, and issue requisitions. Research and evaluate available contractors and consultants, compare spend, develop req. extensions.
• Invoicing review, monthly accruals, SOX compliance audits and reporting, project financial analysis, and contract management supporting Gas Transmission Projects & P/I. The Invoice Review team ensures proper submittals and processing of invoices, accruals, journal entries, etc. in accordance with company accounting policies.
• Coordinates with internal and external parties to drive timely and accurate billing invoices for all capital projects aligned to the terms and rates of the contract agreements and improves budget cashflows through monthly accruals.

Required Skills/Abilities:
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize conflicting deliverables
• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment
• Ability to pick up and drive tasks to completion under minimal supervision where required
• Ability to drive projects within a matrixed company environment
• Knowledge of financials, typical construction requirements, closeout deliverables, and materials process is highly desirable.
• Must be proficient in leveraging technology such as Microsoft Office, TM1 (or equivalent), SAP (or equivalent), and/or PowerBI, to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Proficiency in finance, project controls, cost, and contract management.

Education and Experience:
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and a minimum of 8+ years related experience across Project Controls Cost/Financial activities.
• Regulated gas utility program/project/PMO environment experience .
• Must be able to assess the potential financial impact of a project to the Company.
• Must possess the ability to review problems and propose innovative solutions.
• Must be detail oriented and be able to take initiative, and follow-up on team deliverables.
• Position supports a team consisting of a mix of financial analysts, schedulers, material coordinators, document specialists, project advisors, project managers and contracted resources. Some training/development with other Analysts may be required.
• Ability to interface effectively with all levels of the organization, ability to build excellent working relationships within multiple working groups.
• Proficiency in written and oral communications normally acquired through college level courses and a proficiency in business practices, design and construction applications normally acquired through practical experience and Company training courses.

Working Conditions
This position offers a hybrid work environment permitted remote work in conjunction with a partial in company/client office work schedule to be determined by supervisor. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to move about the inside and outside of the location to access office equipment, etc. The person in this position frequently communicates with employees and must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations. Constantly operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a computer, copy machine, etc.

About Our Company
Pride Resource Partners LLC (Pride) is a high-performance project management consulting firm headquartered in California. Pride is a CPUC-certified Diverse Business Enterprise that provides expert resources to corporate client project management organizations within the public and private sectors. We meet our clients’ demanding requirements for outsourced project management and construction management solutions, including but not limited to providing project controls, material management and logistics, public and governmental outreach, construction oversight, QA/QC, and inspection services. Learn more about us at https://priderp.com/