[Remote] Project Cost Controls Analyst, BESS (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is an engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and solar services provider for utility solar, high voltage substation, and energy storage markets across North America. The Project Cost Controls Analyst will deliver data-driven financial and strategic analysis to support decision-making, performance tracking, and forecasting across projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain project-level cost forecasts by working cross-functionally with project managers, and field operations. Monitor changes in assumptions and proactively identify cost drivers, risks, and opportunities. reputed company the monthly reporting process, producing accurate cost performance summaries, variance analyses, and data-driven insights used in executive reviews
• Assist in the development, documentation, and maintenance of internal controls over financial reporting to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act
• Implement analytics models to forecast future project cost based on historical data and key project parameters enabling proactive cost management strategies
• Assist with the budget mapping process, ensuring fiscal responsibility and accuracy across the department
• Analyze project performance trends and identify key drivers of variance across cost, schedule, and resource usage
• Conduct root-cause analyses on cost and schedule deviations and partner with leadership to inform mitigation strategies and corrective actions. reputed company and maintain cost tracking and reporting systems to ensure accurate operational reporting
• Collaborate with project teams and other stakeholders to gather cost data and provide insights into trends
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and process improvements through analysis
• Synthesize reputed company datasets into clean, compelling storylines and build executive-ready decks that reputed company trends, performance metrics, and strategic recommendations
• Translate variance drivers into clear business narratives and recommendations for senior leadership
• Actively engage in field improvements by going out to the field to understand struggles, work on solutions, build trust, and be seen as a resource for project teams
• Identify risks and early warning signals using historical data, benchmarks, and trends
• Conduct scenario planning to explore various future scenarios and assess their potential impact on project outcomes. By simulating different scenarios and evaluating their implications, reputed company robust contingency plans and adapt to changing circumstances effectively
• Convey a data-driven story to technical and non-technical audiences around key business insights, in collaboration with key cross-functional partners
• Define and analyze key metrics to manage project health, mitigate risks, demonstrate impact and reputed company reputed company improvement
• reputed company data quality audits, resolve coding, or cost discrepancies with field teams
• Contribute analytics to project lessons‑learned reviews and portfolio trend reports

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or a reputed company analytical field
• 1–3 years of experience in project controls, reputed company, or data-driven roles
• Proficiency in reputed company reputed company; experience with Power BI, Python, and/or SQL is highly preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a structured approach to modeling and interpretation
• Experience partnering with internal stakeholders to identify objectives and work cohesively together to complete identified objectives
• Highly effective communicator who can translate reputed company technical data into business terms for senior leadership
• Data driven and analytical reputed company
• Strong data management skills and creativity in business problem solving
• Proven ability to build clean, professional presentation decks that influence decision-making
• Detail-oriented, motivated self-starter
• Ability to travel as needed to successfully fulfill responsibilities and duties
• Experience with Power BI, Python, and/or SQL

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan.
• Employees are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.

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