Role Description
The Senior Consultant will be part of the Turner & Townsend Advisory team internally and the client representative at a project level. The incumbent will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Senior Consultant will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, ensuring that client objectives are met. We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver accurate, consistent, and decision‑ready cost, schedule, and performance reporting across multiple workstreams and packages.
- Collect, validate, consolidate, and transform data from Finance, Planning, Project Controls, PMCs, and Contractors.
- Perform cost and schedule variance analysis and apply Earned Value Management (EVM) to assess performance and trends.
- Analyze integrated cost, schedule, earned value, and payments data to provide clear, actionable insights for management decision‑making.
- Develop and maintain executive dashboards and package‑level reports using Power BI, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Present performance through monthly bars, cumulative curves, and trend analysis.
- Ensure consistent application of package, project, and workstream structures, codes, and definitions.
- Support a single source of truth through standardized templates, data validation, and governance.
- Align reporting outputs with systems such as Oracle Unifier.
- Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management skills, clearly explaining performance, variances, and risks.
- Provide training and coaching to teams to support adoption of new reporting upgrades, processes, and updates.
- Continuously improve reporting quality, data flows, and dashboard usability.
- Power BI knowledge required:
- Star Schema data model (Facts and dimensions, 1:1, 1:M)
- Data curation in Power Query (Group by, merge vs append, data validation)
- Ingesting data from on-prem and cloud sources (SharePoint, Excel, Azure, DB…)
- Good knowledge of DAX (measure vs calculated column, iterators vs aggregations, YTD…)
- Conditional formatting
- Visualization and storytelling (drill-through vs drill down, tooltips, bookmarks)
- Good to have:
- Knowledge of RLS and how it’s applied
- Workspace roles and security