Project Controls Specialist

Job summary

The Project Controls Specialist maintains a reliable owner-side cost picture by reconciling expenditures, commitments, and remaining work against the approved budget. They are responsible for preparing monthly variance explanations, cash-flow forecasts, and providing clear visibility into emerging cost exposures for project leadership.

Job details

The Project Controls Specialist is responsible for maintaining a reliable owner-side cost picture from the approved budget through final completion. The role will reconcile actual expenditure, contractual commitments, and remaining work to provide clear visibility into emerging cost exposures. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES: • Set up or validate the control budget and cost coding structure, aligned with scope, contracts and schedule activities. • Reconcile purchase orders, invoices, accruals, commitments and approved changes with finance and procurement records. • Maintain forecast to complete and estimate at completion by contract, discipline and cost account. • Separate approved budget transfers and changes from unapproved trends, potential claims and contingency drawdown. • Challenge contractor forecasts with the Estimator, Planner and site team using quantities, productivity and remaining work. • Prepare monthly variance explanations, cash-flow forecasts and a clear account of remaining contingency. • Support decisions with a traceable cost history and timely notice of material exposure. • Design and preparation of reports using the available information to best reflect status of major projects to a variety of internal audiences including project management, finance, and leadership. You are a detail-oriented cost control professional with experience supporting significant construction, mining, or process-facility projects. You bring strong analytical skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work across finance, procurement, project controls, and site teams. In addition, you have: • A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related discipline • 5-8 years of cost control experience on significant construction, mining, or process-facility projects. • Strong command of commitments, accruals, forecasting, earned value, change tracking and cost breakdown structures. • Advanced spreadsheet and project cost-system skills, with the ability to reconcile different source systems. • Good judgment when reported progress, contract values and expenditure tell different stories. • Solid understanding of core AACE and/or PMI concepts and practices All applicants must be eligible to work in Canada. Denison offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including health and dental coverage, and a retirement savings plan. OUR COMMITMENT: Denison is dedicated to creating employment opportunities for Indigenous individuals and residents of the communities in which we operate. We encourage Indigenous applicants and those from these communities to apply and to voluntarily provide relevant information in their application. Preference will be given to qualified Indigenous candidates. At Denison, we place a high value on diversity of backgrounds and experience. We strive to create an inclusive workforce that reflects a wide range of cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Our team members are empowered to excel based on their personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance. Reasonable accommodation during the hiring process is available upon request.

What you’ll do

The Project Controls Specialist maintains a reliable owner-side cost picture by reconciling expenditures, commitments, and remaining work against the approved budget. They are responsible for preparing monthly variance explanations, cash-flow forecasts, and providing clear visibility into emerging cost exposures for project leadership.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related discipline along with 5-8 years of cost control experience in construction, mining, or process-facility projects. Strong analytical skills, proficiency in project cost systems, and a solid understanding of AACE or PMI concepts are required.

Benefits

• Health coverage
• Dental coverage
• Retirement savings plan

Listed skills

• Cost Control · Preferred
• Budgeting · Preferred
• Financial Reconciliation · Preferred
• Forecasting · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Procurement · Preferred
• Data analysis · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Cost control
• Budgeting
• Financial reconciliation
• Forecasting
• Earned value management
• Change tracking
• Cost breakdown structures
• Project management
• Procurement
• Data analysis
• Spreadsheet proficiency
• AACE concepts
• PMI concepts
• Contract management
• Variance analysis
• Cash-flow forecasting
• Report Writing
• Variance Explanation
• Cost Control
• Project Controls
• Analytical Skills
• Accounting
• Accruals
• Cash Flow Forecasting
• Earned Value Management
• Finance
• Leadership
• Invoicing
• Project Management
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Methodology
• Purchasing
• Detail Oriented
• Change Tracking

Job areas

• Finance & Accounting
• Construction
• Engineering
• Management & Leadership
• Energy
• Project Controls Specialist
• Project Coordinator
• Statistical, Mathematical and Related Associate Professionals
• Project Management Specialists

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