Project Controls Analyst

We are hiring a Project/ Cost Controls Specialist to drive cost control performance reporting and baseline governance across complex projects. You will apply our project controls processes to ensure accurate budgets forecasts and earned value insight that supports timely informed decisions.

What youll do:

• Work within company financial and project controls systems to capture structure and report cost data.
• Build and maintain project baselines using drawings and specifications; support baseline budget creation.
• Manage cost control: track actuals vs budgets and funding limits; monitor POs subcontracts and commitments.
• Apply earned value methods; prepare RVTMs-equivalent cost/schedule integration where relevant.
• Develop trending and forecasting; analyse progress and quantify cost/schedule impacts.
• Prepare reports calculations and technical cost specifications for project reviews and stakeholders.
• Support invoice review/approval processes for contractors and suppliers.
• Contribute to scope control and change management assessing cost impacts of changes.
• Participate in project cost review meetings; gather data to improve procedures and reporting.

Qualifications :

Project Controls spans diverse backgrounds. If you have a solid foundation in cost control earned value or forecasting and experience using enterprise finance/project systems we encourage you to apply even if you dont meet every point above.

Ideally you will have:

• Proficiency using enterprise financial/project systems and standard project controls processes.
• Working knowledge of accounting principles as applied to project cost management.
• Experience with requirements for earned value cost/schedule integration and performance measurement.
• Ability to interpret drawings/specifications to establish and maintain cost baselines.
• Familiarity with Australian standards governance expectations and reporting in major projects.
• Exposure to scheduling concepts and interfaces between schedule cost commitments and funding.

Additional Information :

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Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity diversity and inclusion a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time