What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Analyst position at CTS Complete Technical Services?
As a Capital Projects Cost Analyst, you will apply your technical skills to meet project team and client needs for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting project cost performance. This work will include interfacing directly with project management, client management, and site personnel for the development of budget and cost metrics for the engineering, procurement, and construction scopes of work associated with capital infrastructure projects. Using a variety of industry and proprietary tools, you will perform the following tasks :
- Implement project controls tools and methodology
- Support the month end closing and phase gate processes, coordination, productions, management, reporting and analysis of cost information
- Support the establishment of project original and approved budgets
- Work with project stakeholders to establish cost baselines
- Develop project forecasts, utilizing estimates, schedules, purchase order open commitments, and inputs from project stakeholders. Review, explain basis for, and adjust project forecasts directly with Project Managers.
- Monitor and analyze actual project costs, calculate variances between actual and forecasted costs, and gather information to document variance explanations.
- Assemble supporting documentation to meet project team and client requests / needs
- Analyze data and build reports to support project monitoring and decision making
- Interface regularly with project management to support monitoring cost performance
- There is the potential for you to travel to client office for project coordination meetings
- Experience with Accrual based project execution.
Qualifications
Essential skills and experience :
