Junior Project Cost Controller

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Location: Ottawa, ON (Hybrid)
Salary: $24/Hour
Duration: 12 months contract (Possibility of Extension)


Advantages
• Work full-time hours on a 12-month assignment
• Earn $24/h
• Hybrid role
• Global opportunities for professional growth and development

Responsibilities

Responsible for cost control and ensures that it is in conformance with company’s policy.
Develops and prepares project budget and contract changes.
In collaboration with PMO, maintains financial budget and Estimate At Completion in Primavera; Validates jointly with Project Management Office and Finance Manager to resolve any inconsistency and Estimate At Completion changes.
Prepares, validates with Project Manager the monthly re-forecasting of Sales, Gross Margin, Cost Variance, Adjusted Gross Margin and Cash-in and ensures that the information is in time to be integrated on the monthly Company Operational Budget Review (OBR).
Project Cash monitoring and liaises with the Company’s Treasurer on project cash flow, foreign exchange exposure, hedging activities and customer cash collection.
Produces monthly project report (Dashboard) and forecasts data package with major risks and opportunities identified. Of which main tasks are: Actual cost validation, Commitment cost validation, Estimate to Complete (ETC) validation and control check; Produces external weekly and monthly reporting as required, monitoring actuals and budgets; Produces external task forecasts of project burn-rate for level of effort contracts as required.
Supports Business Control Manager in the monthly Project Control Group processes – Timesheet Admin, monthly programmatic consolidation of all projects, financial analysis.; Prepares project pricing and supports internal pricing specialist on bids; Supports and provides timely project billing.
Works on establishing overarching global project processes for improved monitoring and control.
Performs special project assignments as requested.

Qualifications
Bachelor of Commerce or Bachelor of Arts (major in Accounting), and/or similar education and equivalent experience
1-3 years of experience in large multi-national or national organization, in the Defense & Security sector or previous experience in project cost controlling
Experience working on projects and knowledge of basic project management and the project lifecycle.
Knowledge and previous experience working with different business systems and tools (i.e. SAP, Primavera and Excel)


Summary
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