Senior Project Cost Control Specialist

Mott MacDonald is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated project cost control specialist to work on projects throughout the Toronto area. In this role, you will assist the project management teams in tasks such as developing, monitoring, and updating project plans; forecast project costs; and provide analyses to support claims negotiations, assist with monthly and quarterly reports either of financial nature, progress related or both. 

In this role, the Senior Project Cost Control Specialist will be responsible for: 

• Undertake the cost control function for multiple infrastructure projects undertaken by Mott MacDonald 

• Develop and maintain project progress reporting to include the status of committed costs against approved budgets, including all financial and earned value reporting, in accordance with contract and business requirements 

• Review actual cost against baseline budgets and cost plans, perform variance analysis and communicate status on an ongoing basis to project teams, clients and other third parties 

• Implement, monitor and administer change control requirements including changes to project scope, budgets, contracts and schedule 

• Capture and review monthly or quarterly project cost forecast in collaboration with project delivery team 

• Reconcile and validate invoices and progress payments data from various information management system for Mott MacDonald, its subconsultants and other third parties 

• Review, distribute and track invoices and progress payments for Mott MacDonald, its subconsultants and other third parties 

• Create dashboard, summary reports, and presentations for management review 

• Prepare written, tabular, and graphic reports that communicate project cost status periodically and as required. 

• Interface and maintain liaison with clients, subcontractors and others on all cost control related activities 

Candidate with the below experience and qualifications will be considered:

• 10-15 years of experience in a similar position (e.g. project controls, cost controls, cost estimating, etc.) within a multi-discipline project environment 

• At least 5-8 years’ experience in the infrastructure sector;  

• Experience working within a consulting engineering environment in Canada 

• Hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in STEMs (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) engineering, or construction management or similar 

• Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplined team 

• Excellent communicator (both oral and written) and skilled problem-solver with a commitment to thrive in a proactive organization where client service is paramount 

• Excellent time management skills while dealing with multiple competing deadlines 

• Experienced in maintaining project cost control systems (experience of a variety of systems would be an advantage) 

• Experience in supporting programs and projects with relevant experience in reporting and cost control for infrastructure and related projects (transit, highway, railroad) 

• Understanding of, and experience in, budgeting, preparing cost control plans, cost reporting, progress and earned value reporting, including own organization and others 

• A high attention to detail and an ability to deal efficiently with priorities and manage time appropriately 

• Must be expert user with software such as: SharePoint, PowerBI, Excel, Word, and other comparable programs. 

• Must be able to formulate complex excel formulas to merge, sort, compare and summarize large data set.