The Role
The Project Controls Specialist provides management assistance and analytical support, overseeing project financials, communications, team collaboration, contracting obligations, and data reporting.
Summary Generated by Built In
If you think your skills, experience and aspirations make you a good match for this position, we encourage you to apply. This position may be filled anywhere in the United States.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The role of Project Controls Specialist is focused on providing analytical and management assistance to team leadership on large, multi-office project where you will leverage your experience in data analysis, budget planning and analysis, problem solving, and research. The successful candidate will excel at managing multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in a fast-paced project environment.
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL DO
Financials
- With the Regional Controller, prepare and report on monthly project revenue and review performance and projection variances Project and Firm leadership
- With the Regional Controller, report revenue and develop profitability forecast, including review of project staffing and schedules to Project and Firm leadership
- Review consultant contracts and invoices for accuracy, match to project budget
- Assist the Project Leadership in managing/coordinating workload of team and provide leadership of team activities including interpreting, summarizing, and checking complex data sets to produce weekly and monthly reports on project status
- With the Project Managers, facilitate the development, evolution and management of the work plan, budget, and schedule
- Responsible for oversight of project invoicing; timely and accurate according to contract and collection of receivables working closely with Project Managers and the Business Office
- Maintain records for financial status of projects
Communications
- Develop and maintain positive client relations throughout the life of the project
- Prepare complex spreadsheets and database work in Excel and other databases.
- Gather and coordinate information and assist with research.
- Assist the Project Leadership in maintaining appropriate client and internal communication including written project documentation.
- Prepare letters and correspondence explaining payment decisions
- Summarize schedule and cost information, including developing graphics, for a high-level audience
- Navigate and understand numerous data sources to provide accurate reporting
Project Team
- Collaborate effectively with all team members. Generate and support a positive team environment: participation, empowerment, and accomplishment
- Meet with project team members on a regular basis to monitor work in progress and to assure that the firm’s best practice standards and procedures are being implemented
- Help formulate new efficient processes while maintaining critical workflows
- May travel for project meetings and site observations.
Contracts
- Understand our contractual obligations to the client and the project to help the project leadership ensure that the team delivers on expectations for our scope of work and required services. Work proactively with the client and project leadership to identify and obtain approvals for additions to scope of work or services prior to undertaking the work.
- Proactively communicate with and influence clients to approve and process payables for our services.
- Assist the Project Leadership to carry out established business practices and monitor project team adherence to terms of contracts
- Monitor and maintain risk and add services logs
- Assist the Project Leadership in drafting contracts (B101/C401/C727) and exhibits and shepherd through approval process.
- Perform time impact analyses and other schedule analyses as requested
- Prepare, maintain, retrieve, and communicate records, reports, or documents required to meet contractual requirements
HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Minimum Associate’s degree in Business, Construction Management, or a related field. Bachelors degree is preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years’ related experience required in project control activities, including progress tracking, data analysis, reporting, managing complex spreadsheets, and consolidating data from multiple sources.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and teamwork abilities.
- Must be a critical thinker.
- Experience in a professional service firm a plus.
- Team focused and able to work with multiple skilled professionals.
- Must be a fully qualified professional able to perform work with a high degree of latitude, with some ambiguity in work.
- Proficiency in MS Office tools including MS Project; some experience with Procore or Primevera 6, strong familiarity with PowerBI, Deltek Vision experience preferred, MS Scheduling applications knowledge is preferred but not required.
The salary range for this position is $88,600 to $110,700 annually. This is the anticipated range of base compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses. We offer a full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage as well as flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances. We have paid time off, flex-time schedules, hybrid work options, a 401k plan, and employee perk programs. For a general overview of our benefits, please visit our careers page at https://www.cannondesign.com/careers/benefits
ABOUT OUR FIRM
CannonDesign is a design practice where strategy, experience, architecture, engineering, and social impact converge. We don’t just dream up solutions — we create and bring them to life in ways to solve some of the biggest challenges facing our clients and the society. At the heart of everything we do is Living-Centered Design, a bold commitment to using our talents to not just improve the world but to truly reshape it for the better. It’s more than a philosophy — it’s who we are, and it drives us to make a meaningful, lasting difference every day.
ABOUT WORKING HERE
- We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
- We are committed to ensuring our practice provides equal opportunities for all employees, as we strive to connect with communities around us and focus on the future of design. We support equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts that benefit all employees through the leadership of our DEI Council, our Employee Resource Groups which are open to everyone, and other community initiatives.
- We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.
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As a condition of employment, all employees are expected to complete mandatory training, including compliance training, within required timeframes and adhere to our internal policies and our Code of Conduct.
CannonDesign is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CannonDesign is committed to maintaining a work environment that is free from any and all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment. It is therefore the firm’s policy to prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicant, CannonDesign employee, vendor, contractor, or client on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. It is also CannonDesign’s policy to prohibit any and all forms of retaliation against any individual who has complained of harassing or discriminatory conduct, or participated in a firm or agency investigation into such complaints.
Top Skills
Deltek Vision
MS Office
Ms Project
Power BI
Primvera 6
Procore
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The Company
What We Do
As an integrated design firm, we do a lot of things. But at our core, we help people continuously flourish.
We leverage the heart, passion and intelligence of our more than 1,000 creative thinkers to develop solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Whether designing for equity in education, accessible healthcare, inclusive communities, new scientific discoveries or the “next big idea” in business, we partner with organizations to help them improve human life.
We do this through a design approach we created called Living-Centered Design. Our approach realizes that to create a world where people continuously flourish, we must address the complex interdependencies that exist between people, businesses, communities, society and the environment.
Learn more at cannondesign.com/livingcentereddesign.
