Project Controls Advisor

At Anser Advisory, we strive and succeed by creating smart, dynamic and professionally skilled teams to deliver extraordinary projects for our clients. You will work on interesting projects which will expand your expertise and hone your technical skills through the ability to access the most advanced technology on the market. Your successful impact will help us obtain our goal of being the nationwide go-to professional services provider. Anser provides our clients with advisory, compliance, program and project construction management services at the highest level of dedication.

Our relationships are on our credibility to deliver on our commitments, with unbeatable service levels to our clients which has resulted in our rapid growth, nationwide.

We are looking for a Project Controls Advisor to join our growing Utilities team! In this job, you’ll provide project cost controls for a portfolio of major project/programs and work with Project Management to ensure the execution is carried out in scope, on schedule and within budget.  Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead or oversee the development and maintenance project budgets/baselines, short- and long-term forecasts, and expenditure plans for a portfolio of major and/or multi-year projects and/or programs. 
• Lead or oversee the development/update of routine and complex reports to assist Project Managers and partners to monitor, manage, and forecast costs (e.g., budget, actual, commitment, contingency, earned value, cost per unit, cost impact analysis) for a portfolio of multi-year projects or external data requests.
• Provide consultation on complex matters, best practices, and data analysis in areas of cost controls (e.g., budget, forecasts, cost impact analysis, risk analysis). Perform complex analytics and prepare and present results, alternatives, insights, and/or recommendations to support business decisions, to manage project costs and schedules, and to mitigate potential risks to a portfolio of multi-year projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and utilize applicable estimating, cost management, and/or scheduling knowledge, techniques, and tools to determine and communicate the results (e.g., trend, variance, and cost impact).
• Lead the preparation or prepare project controls data request responses and work papers in supporting corporate/governance, internal/external audits, General Rate Cases, and any pertinent regulatory filings.  Influence or implement project controls policies, standards, or operations procedures. Perform quality assurance or reconciliation tasks following established techniques and procedures.  Identify and/or lead process and service improvement opportunities on matters of significance to the business. 
• Possess mentorship responsibility to develop future project controls professionals.  Provides training in areas of expertise.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in cost controls/management
• 3 years of experience with Microsoft Excel software for financial analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering, data science, construction management, or project management
• Master’s Degree in science, engineering, business, management, or leadership
• Experience in Project Management, Project Controls, and Construction Management, or equivalent experience.  Utility construction/CA regulated/regulatory/EPC experience desirable
• Demonstrated knowledge, ability and experience with SAP or similar Enterprise Resource Solutions application
• Certified Cost Professional, Project Management Professional, Professional Engineer, or equivalent credential(s)

$130,500 – $147,999 a year

Pay may be more or less depending on experience, skills and education.

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, because it makes our firm stronger. Each of us contributes to our inclusive environment in the way we act, our level of commitment, encouragement to others to share their ideas, and our everyday, outstanding teamwork to support our clients. We also support professional for our staff and celebrate their accomplishments.

Simply put, our firm is better…because of the people we work with.