Project Controller

4 weeks ago

Whitehorse, Canada Stantec Full time

Project Controller - ( 240003JE )

Description

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us

Your Opportunity

In this position you will have the opportunity to provide support for the successful execution of construction projects through conformance to Stantec’s ISO requirements, corporate policies, project management framework, and client requirements and standards.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business center leadership, finance, project managers and other project controllers to ensure successful project execution, overall financial health of business operations and process optimization
  • Support with project management best practices, set up, revenue/cost forecasting, change management, budgets and business plans
  • Monitor project financial progress, recommend areas of improvement, help to identify areas of risk
  • Assist with internal processes (project setups, forecasting, monitoring gross margins, invoicing/accounts receivable, sub-consultants, contract reviews, etc.)
  • Work closely with the project team to maintain a current and accurate understanding of project status, issues and changes
  • Gather and analyze data to understand trends to assist leadership with business decisions
  • Review and analyze project gross margins and work with team and management to find costs savings and efficiencies
  • Assist team members to adhere to client standards and corporate policies and procedures, i.e., status reporting, quality reviews, audits etc.
  • Support PM by coordinating project deliverables and schedules and subconsultant contract management
  • Support and assist with training of project controllers, and project managers
  • Collaborate with client project control staff
  • Foster a healthy and safe work environment and provide safety compliance
  • Create and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally including associated stakeholders
  • Support business development functions which may include proposal preparation
Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

  • Prior work in a financial role/project controller/ project manager/ project assistant role is a plus
  • Financial Acumen: understanding of general finance and budgeting, including profit and loss
  • Strong analytical skills required to review all project controls information and ensure accuracy as well as identify issues, concerns, and potential mitigations
  • Strong listening, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
  • Effective time management skills and ability to handle multiple priorities and assignments
  • Excellent written and verbal communications a must
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Eager to learn, resourceful and a “team player” approach
  • Must have good interpersonal skills, including ability to build and maintain solid relationships with internal and external staff, the self-confidence and courage to deal with disputes and adversity by implementing effective negotiating skills
  • Adaptability to find solutions to maximize efficiency with processes
  • Must be able to successfully work both collaboratively and independently
  • Experience with Adobe Acrobat Pro, MS Outlook, MS Teams, MS Office 365 including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, and Access
Education And Experience

  • Technical degree/diploma/certificate or equivalent in related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Minimum of 3-5 years of experience
  • Work experience in project management, finance, analytics is preferred

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for periods of time.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-Northwest Territories-Yellowknife

Other Locations : Canada-Nunavut-Iqaluit, Canada-Yukon-Whitehorse

Organization : BC-1449 Buildings-CA North

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Entry Level

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Sep 25, 2024, 12:35:02 PM

Req ID: 240003JE

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans #J-18808-Ljbffr

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