Project Controls Analyst IV

AECOM is seeking a Project Controls Analyst IV to be based in Los Angeles California.

Job Description:

• Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project.  
• Understands financial terminology and measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions.  
• Participates in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues. 
• May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks.  
• Participates in tracking action items.  
• Able to use drawings and specifications in the establishment of project baseline data.  
• Knowledgeable of accounting principles with extensive understanding of the manner in which the company establishes and documents the financial position.  
• Prepares revised cost forecast for select accounts. 
• Prepares analysis of progress trends and cost impact. May participate in reviewing and approving contractor invoices.  
• Works hands on with earned value monitoring.
• Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations including preparation of variance analysis.  
• Compares actual cost to funding limitations. Prepares expenditure forecasts to identify critical points in project funding. 
• Reviews purchase order and subcontract commitments and expenditures. Maintains tracking database to insure that subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures.  
• Understands the manner in which profits on projects are budgeted and the extent to which the budget value is achieved.  
• Possesses the knowledge of scope control and change management. Involved in the tracking system to insure that project management is fully aware of detailed change order status.
• Creates and assists with cost/schedule baseline budgets.
• Familiar with basic cost/schedule integration and basic critical path analysis and other rescheduling concepts. 
• Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated cost trending.  
• Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting.
• Participates in and may lead project cost review meetings. 
• Assists in procedure development and implementation.

Day to Day Duties include:

• Reviewing baselines
• Verifying scope and logic
• Providing written comments to the submitted schedule
• Assist with other schedulers tasks and/or assist the scheduling team
• Performing critical path analysis and earned value analysis
• Site visits to construction sites as needed
• Reading drawings
• Performing schedule time impact analysis
• Preparing reports as directed