AECOM is hiring a Project Controls – Senior Cost Engineer that will provide technical expertise and analytical support for cost engineering and financial-control functions across multiple projects. This position is responsible for maintaining cost integrity, monitoring project and program financial performance, supporting forecasting and change management, and contributing to accurate and timely financial reporting.
The successful candidate will work closely with project leadership, construction management teams, project controls personnel, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure costs are properly tracked, analyzed, forecasted, and reported in accordance with established program procedures.
Responsibilities include:
- Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of program and project cost-control procedures, tools, and reporting standards.
- Develop, maintain, and monitor project and program budgets, commitments, actual costs, accruals, forecasts, and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
- Track and analyze cost performance across multiple projects, contracts, and funding sources.
- Identify cost trends, variances, risks, and emerging issues and communicate their potential financial impacts to project leadership.
- Support Construction Management teams with contractor payment applications, change orders, Schedule of Values (SOV) reviews, and cost-compliance requirements.
- Review invoices, payment applications, and supporting documentation for accuracy, completeness, and consistency with contractual requirements.
- Support the evaluation and tracking of change orders, potential changes, contingency usage, allowances, and forecasted cost impacts.
- Maintain accurate cost records, cost reports, change logs, commitment registers, and other financial-control documentation.
- Apply Earned Value Management principles and other performance-measurement techniques, as required, to assess project cost performance.
- Reconcile cost information between the PMIS, financial systems, contractor records, and other project data sources.
- Prepare high-quality weekly and monthly cost reports, forecasts, dashboards, and presentations for senior management, clients, and other stakeholders.
- Support program-level consolidation and reporting of financial information across multiple projects and contracts.
- Assist with cash-flow projections, funding analyses, cost trending, and management reporting.
- Support audit readiness by maintaining complete, accurate, and traceable cost documentation.
- Ensure compliance with established program financial controls, reporting requirements, change management procedures, and approval authorities.
- Participate in weekly and monthly project and program meetings and present cost-related information, as required.
- Collaborate with scheduling, risk, change management, document control, procurement, and construction teams to support integrated project controls.