Cost Analyst – Operational Finance

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Prepare financial analyses, reports, and audit forecasts to confirm current costs and effectively validate forecast financial outcome of assigned projects.

Reports to: Senior Cost Analyst; when assigned to/located at project, reports Project Engineer or Project Manager  

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assess project financial risks and report project team plans to mitigate risks.
• Accumulate, audit and correlate information from all possible sources to produce required cost reports such as Budget Analysis Reports (BARs), special studies, and Cost-audited BARs (CABs), and prepare interpretive analysis where required. This includes:
  • Know project contract with Owner and Turner’s contractual rights.
  • Work with project accounting to ensure costs are posted correctly to ledger.
  • Audit budget report for accuracy and ensure it reflects all costs posted to ledger.
  • Provide budget audit findings to project and ensure corrections are made by project.
  • Analyze current budget reports, holds, and unboughts.
• Audit project forecast of General Conditions, General Requirements, staff and labor projections to accurately forecast costs, including insurance and taxes.
• Audit project re-forecasted projections and studies as project conditions change.
• Audit and accurately prepare CABs working with project.
• Prepare and participate in Operations Review Meetings (ORMs) with senior business unit management.
• Maintain complete knowledge of all general contract documents and relationship of job estimate to contract documents.
• Train and develop new Costs Analysts and project staff.
• Visit jobsites, evaluate project progress and conditions, and review findings with project management.
• Review current field conditions in trades and evaluate costs, Superintendent’s Instruction to Subcontractors (SISs), exposures, claims and recoveries.
• Act as communication bridge between Accounting and field staff.
• Monitor and understand project cash position.
• Participate in Payment Application creation and understand connection with Budget Report during job set up.
• Understand and audit SAP forecasting workbenches.
• Ensure proper review of contract, Contract Authorization (CA), and Peckar & Abramson checklist to understand business deal, assumed contractual risks, and potential earnings impact.
• Establish proper Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Element for allocation of costs, work with Engineering and Finance during project set up.
• Prepare final Cost Audited Budget Analysis Report (CAB), reconcile to final contract value and cost.
• Validate final revenue before final bill is submitted during closeout phase.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Construction Management or related field, and 3 years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• High degree of organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Financial system applications proficiency with advanced knowledge of MS Excel
• Self-starter, adaptable, and flexible to operate with minimal direction and/or supervision while working in complex and changing environment
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion with ability to identify problems and make recommendations for resolution
• Demonstrate leadership, strong dedication to teamwork and integrity within professional environment
• Professional written and verbal communication skills

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs,

passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Performing this job requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move heavy weight.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and risk of electrical shock. The noise in these work environments is usually moderate to very loud.