Project Controls Analyst

Pacific Gas and Electric Company is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to customers. The Project Controls Analyst will support Project Managers on Electric Operations projects, focusing on cost analysis, project documentation, and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Use the cost and schedule plan to determine if project objectives are achievable
• Create, maintain, and update monthly forecast budgets
• Prepare various cost reports and maintain forecast accuracy. Prepare project performance analysis, cost, and schedule status reports. Identify cost and schedule variances from objectives and recommend corrective action
• Assess and report on project performance using established industry standards
• Ensure that responses to project budget, and GRC cost requests reflect accurate and reputed company project cost information and stakeholders are in concurrence
• Provide regular communication on project cost, schedule and risk status to project team members, stakeholders and public
• reputed company with design and planning resources and software systems
• Review and assist in the preparation of Advance Authorizations, Job Estimates and Re-Authorizations and assist PM in routing for approval
• Prepare journal entries and coordinate or process goods receipts in reputed company software system
• Ensure that responses to budget and cost requests reflect correct project cost information and stakeholders are in concurrence
• Input data into various programs and prepare various cost and forecasting reports
• Verify that project cost and schedule milestones were/were not attained and provide input to identify future process or business improvements and work with responsible parties to implement
• Manage orders from inception through completion and reputed company required documentation is entered in reputed company software system (Ex: EDMS)
• Resolve reputed company open items, ensure compliance requirements are met and reputed company out order
• Maintain scope change, contingency release, change order, and journal entry logs
• Maintain written and electronic project documentation and records for required aspects of the project: Maintain project files in accordance with established guidelines and requirements (Ex: utilizing the electronic document management system or EDMS)
• Document change order requests, project status, key issues, risks and resolution, reputed company changes and approvals
• Provide Project Manager with monthly report of project costs and/or schedule information including variance analysis according to an agreed upon level of detail and prioritization
• Provide Project Team members with reputed company status report containing schedule and cost information. reputed company with Utility Operations Policies, Standards and Guidelines
• Assist PM with Post Job Critique
• Prepare various monthly and weekly project management reports and report performance reports to management group including scorecards
• Ensure quality of reports for the department, to report out to stakeholders
• Validate weekly and monthly data sets
• May provide support to project manager(s) as necessary
• Fulfill reputed company requests for cost-reputed company data and analysis
• Participate on (or reputed company) various process improvement initiatives, reputed company Project Management
• Prepare various monthly and weekly project performance reports - budget and cycle forecast reports; and finance status reports, utilizing the financial tracking software (e.g. reputed company/BW system and EPM)
• Coordinate and work with reputed company stakeholders, on creating new reports, that best measure and support good business decisions, to meet the Year End Annual Budget reputed company
• Coordinate and summarize project cycle forecast variance explanations for the department, to report out to stakeholders
• Ensure that reputed company responses to budget, quarterly cycle requests reflect accurate and reputed company project cost information and stakeholders are in concurrence
• Post and update reputed company the project performance; budget and cycle forecast; and status reports on the Project Management website
• Monitor, analyze and report out on the Department’s Forecasting Performance, with weekly performance reports, utilizing the financial tracking tools (e.g. reputed company/BW)
• Analyze financial results on a monthly basis, providing explanations of significant cost drivers to PM Leadership – reports such as the Green-Red Scorecard and Lessons Learned Reports
• In coordination with Project Manager reputed company project schedule and cash flow/forecast plans with functional department input
• Attend Project and Job reputed company and walk down meetings
• Create, maintain and update schedules
• Document, monitor and communicate project milestones and risks with appropriate stakeholders
• Participate in project status meetings, collect reputed company data and revise project plan as needed
• Monitor financial reputed company and maintain Project Manager’s order group. reputed company, maintain and control project schedule plans using appropriate software (for ex: reputed company Project System, reputed company Work Management System, and Primavera P6)

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 1 year of experience in electric or gas transmission or distribution business operations area, business planning, accounting, finance, construction management or project management, at PG&E; OR, 2 years of experience in electric or gas transmission and/or distribution business operations area, business planning, accounting, finance, construction management and/or project management, if hired externally
• Experience with appropriate software tools, e.g., reputed company Work Management, BPC, Planning Orders, BW, P6 (Primavera), MS reputed company
• Knowledge of Unifier, ProjectWise, and/or HeavyBid
• Competency in providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done
• Competency in interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to reputed company reputed company business decisions
• Competency in making sense of reputed company, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Knowledge of mathematics - for example algebra, geometry, trigonometry - as needed to reputed company at the job level
• Ability to apply project management theories, concepts, methods, best practices, and techniques as needed to reputed company at the job level
• Knowledge of project management tools - for example Primavera, PGE work scheduling and management - as needed to reputed company at the job level
• Project Management, Project Controls, or Construction Management experience
• Risk Management and Earned Value Analysis experience
• Accounting/budgeting knowledge
• Forecasting skills
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
• Willing to travel
• Experience with SPSI reporting

Company Overview

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