Senior Program Controls Specialist

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program controls frameworks, methodologies, policies, and governance processes across multiple projects and programs. 

• Provide strategic oversight of project budgets, forecasts, schedules, cash flow, earned value performance, and key project performance indicators. 

• Direct portfolio-wide cost and schedule forecasting activities, ensuring accuracy, consistency, transparency, and timely reporting to senior leadership. 

• Establish, approve, and maintain program and project baselines, ensuring effective measurement of scope, schedule, cost, progress, and performance. 

• Lead monthly business reviews and executive reporting, including variance analysis, trend assessment, scenario evaluation, and actionable recommendations. 

• Drive the analysis and resolution of critical project risks, schedule delays, cost overruns, productivity challenges, and execution issues. 

• Partner with Project Directors, Program Managers, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and Delivery teams to optimize project outcomes and financial performance. 

• Provide executive-level dashboards and strategic insights using Power BI, SAP, Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and other enterprise project controls systems. 

• Lead change management and change control governance, including evaluation of cost, schedule, contractual, risk, and business impacts. 

• Oversee project controls personnel and provide direction, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and capability development. 

• Ensure project controls processes comply with corporate governance requirements, client obligations, audit expectations, and industry best practices. 

• Direct portfolio-level risk management, mitigation planning, contingency management, and escalation of material exposures. 

• Support business planning, resource forecasting, capital planning, and long-range portfolio performance analysis. 

• Establish standards and best practices that improve forecasting accuracy, reporting quality, data integrity, and operational efficiency. 

• Lead audits, compliance reviews, lessons learned, assurance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of program controls frameworks, methodologies, policies, and governance processes across multiple projects and programs. 

• Provide strategic oversight of project budgets, forecasts, schedules, cash flow, earned value performance, and key project performance indicators. 

• Direct portfolio-wide cost and schedule forecasting activities, ensuring accuracy, consistency, transparency, and timely reporting to senior leadership. 

• Establish, approve, and maintain program and project baselines, ensuring effective measurement of scope, schedule, cost, progress, and performance. 

• Lead monthly business reviews and executive reporting, including variance analysis, trend assessment, scenario evaluation, and actionable recommendations. 

• Drive the analysis and resolution of critical project risks, schedule delays, cost overruns, productivity challenges, and execution issues. 

• Partner with Project Directors, Program Managers, Commercial, Finance, Procurement, and Delivery teams to optimize project outcomes and financial performance. 

• Provide executive-level dashboards and strategic insights using Power BI, SAP, Primavera P6, Microsoft Excel, and other enterprise project controls systems. 

• Lead change management and change control governance, including evaluation of cost, schedule, contractual, risk, and business impacts. 

• Oversee project controls personnel and provide direction, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and capability development. 

• Ensure project controls processes comply with corporate governance requirements, client obligations, audit expectations, and industry best practices. 

• Direct portfolio-level risk management, mitigation planning, contingency management, and escalation of material exposures. 

• Support business planning, resource forecasting, capital planning, and long-range portfolio performance analysis. 

• Establish standards and best practices that improve forecasting accuracy, reporting quality, data integrity, and operational efficiency. 

• Lead audits, compliance reviews, lessons learned, assurance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives. 

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Finance, Business Administration, or a related discipline. 

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in project controls, program controls, cost management, planning, scheduling, project management, or PMO leadership. 

• Demonstrated experience leading project controls across large-scale capital projects, infrastructure, data centers, energy, engineering, construction, or technology programs. 

• Advanced expertise in cost management, forecasting and budgeting, schedule management, Earned Value Management, risk management, performance measurement, portfolio reporting, and change control. 

• Extensive working knowledge of Primavera P6, SAP, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and enterprise project controls systems. 

• Strong understanding of project finance, accounting principles, cash flow management, accruals, and cost-to-complete methodologies. 

• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams in a complex matrix organization. 

• Exceptional analytical, strategic planning, communication, reporting, and executive presentation skills. 

• Proven experience leading project controls teams and developing project controls capability and talent. 
   

Preferred Qualification