Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
The Project Controls Associate will be supporting global teams within the Centre of Excellence (COE) environment. The role is responsible for ensuring compliance, quality assurance, and governance across capital projects and expense management, requiring flexibility to work global hours and engage with international stakeholders.
Role accountabilities:
- Business Case Governance & Compliance: Lead the technical review of Business Cases to ensure strict compliance with approval workflows, maintaining and updating governance policies and authority matrices for all Business Units.
- Strategic Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the primary link between the COE and Regional Capital Management teams to communicate audit results, mitigate potential risks, and ensure adherence to global policies and procedures.
- Capital Approval Management: Facilitate and manage Peer and CS Signing Meetings, including agenda creation and status tracking, to ensure the timely progression of projects through the approval pipeline.
- Financial & Contractual Verification: Collaborate with Real Estate Transactions and Finance teams to verify that all O&E contracts and leases have completed the mandatory Business Case approval process prior to legal execution.
- Quality Assurance & Auditing: Execute bi-annual Quality Assurance reviews on capital projects and implement COE quality processes to maintain the integrity and accuracy of all global deliverables.
- Global Process Standardization: Support COE Leadership in driving global standardization initiatives that improve governance, commercial efficiencies, and data-driven optimization across the real estate organization.
- Team Leadership & Talent Development: Manage a diverse team by providing regular performance updates to leadership, driving talent development and succession planning, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architechture, Business Administration, Economics, Real Estate or a related field.
- 7 to 10 years of experience in expense management, compliance auditing, financial controls or quality assurance and working within an investment bank or financial services industry strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of Corporate expense policies and financial governance.
- Experience in internal audits, financial controls or risk management within a multinational organization.
- Knowledge of global construction practices, trends and cost indices.
- Prior experience working in a shared service or centre of excellence (COE) environment preferred.
- Strong ability to manage cross-functionalcollaboration and senior stakeholder engagement.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Business Administration, Economics, Real Estate or related field
- 7 to 10 years of experience in expense management, compliance auditing, financial controls or quality assurance
- Experience working within an investment bank or financial services industry
- Strong understanding of corporate expense policies and financial governance
- Experience in internal audits, financial controls or risk management within a multinational organization
- Knowledge of global construction practices, trends and cost indices
- Prior experience working in a shared service or Centre of Excellence (COE) environment
- Strong ability to manage cross-functional collaboration and senior stakeholder engagement
- Flexibility to work global hours and engage with international stakeholders
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
