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HDR · 2 days ago

Cost Controls Specialist

Los Angeles, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$82K/yr - $135K/yr

5+ years exp

HDR is a company that values employee engagement and inclusion, and they are seeking a Cost Controls Specialist to manage financial aspects of engineering projects. The role involves estimating project costs, analyzing cost data, and ensuring projects stay within budget constraints while supporting the Los Angeles World Airports ATMP Landside Improvements Project.

ArchitectureConsulting

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Monitor project budgets for the multi-billion-dollar Capital Improvement Program at Los Angeles World Airports

Review and analyze sub-contractor invoices, ensuring expenditures are accurately incurred against appropriate Schedule of Values accounts

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, sub-consultants, and City of Los Angeles Interdepartmental Orders 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 contingency budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion

Analyze task order values against current allowance budget and prepare reconciliations to include in the current forecast at completion

PMWeb - Update contract commitments, reconcile and analyze actual expenditures, perform budget transfers, monitor trend status and maintain continuity of WBS structure

Perform Project closeout resourcefully to ensure PMWeb Data is complete for LAWA’s reporting needs

Prepare data to support documentation required journal vouchers for budget transfers

Qualification

Cost estimationFinancial analysisProject managementCertified Cost ProfessionalMS OfficeCost control softwareAnalytical skillsProblem-solvingDetail-orientedTeam collaborationOrganizational skillsCommunication skills