Cost Engineer / Financial Analyst - Project Controls

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Job description

CMS has a passion and focus on project controls for construction projects in Transportation, Energy, Water/Wastewater, and Infrastructure. We hire exceptional people to fill highly-desirable staff augmentation and consulting assignments including cost engineering, CPM scheduling, change management, estimating and claims consulting. CMS provides a competitive salary, as well as a comprehensive benefits package, including full "Gold" level health, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement with matching funds, tuition/training assistance, as well as generous paid time off/vacation time. We truly believe that CMS employees are our most valuable assets and work hard to create an enjoyable and productive work environment that respects and appreciates the professional caliber of our employees.

NO RELOCATION PROVIDED

Position Summary

The successful candidate will have proven cost engineering experience with complex, multi-phase, multi-million dollar construction and/or renovation projects. The general job duties include: Prepares detailed computer generated cost reports, charts and diagrams; Provides analysis and review of cost/budget expenditure and maintains cost control reports; Promptly reports anticipated cost overages or other unsatisfactory cost elements; Maintains liaison with Data Processing in developing support for network calculations, printouts and cost reports, and other cost related services.

Essential Job Duties

• Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion dollar Capital Improvement Programs at Los Angeles World Airports and Gas and Electric Utilities around Southern California
• Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices. Prepares job costing reports to allocate these expenditures against the appropriate WBS numbers. Ensure that both commitments and expenditures follow the same allocation methodology.
• Perform cost-to-complete analysis for all cost elements within a project taking into consideration staffing plans, contract commitments, and expenditures to date, change orders and trends.
• Attend project meetings to provide Project Management with current financial information and trend log regarding potential impacts to project budget or forecast.
• Provide progress reporting documents and briefing materials as required. Develop creative reporting tools to communicate complex project sequencing and/or progress assessments.
• Review task orders for contractors and sub-consultants to ensure necessary budget and/or contract capacity exists.
• Analyze bid award values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
• Analyze change order values against current budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion.
• Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers

Hardware/Software Knowledge

• Thorough familiarity with MS office suite software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, (highly proficient in Excel..advanced functions such as VLOOKUP's, pivot tables, filtering/sorting, charts and graphing).
• Experience in SAS or SAS VA (Visual Analytics).
• Experience performing SQL queries.
• Experience programming with Visual Basic is a plus.
• Other software that may be beneficial; Business Objects, Crystal Reports, JIRA, NetSuite, Power BI, PowerPoint, Python/Orange, R Studio, Report Builder, Enterprise/VA, SharePoint, SSRS, Tableau, Visio
• Familiarity with Primavera, (P6), familiarity

Professional Experience Level/Other Qualifications

• 5- to 10-years cost engineering experience with 3- to 5-years in direct support of an active construction projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing and reporting the cost components of large-scale, complex projects; including developing and managing a progress reporting methodology for a complicated design effort.
• Experience with Design-Build and Construction Management at Risk delivery methods is desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to understand technical and complicated construction program and the ability to communicate progress to both technical- and management-level personnel.
• Ability to work with others, a self-starter with results-driven focus.
• Flexible to a potentially varying shift time or overtime schedule.

To Apply:

• Please provide relevant project history.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• construction cost engineering: 5 years (Required)

Work authorization:

• United States (Required)

Application Question:

• Are you located in Southern California?