Project Cost Analyst Assc/ Project Cost Analyst

Project Cost Analyst Assc/ Project Cost Analyst

Requirements

• No experience required with a qualified Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree.
• With a High School Diploma, a minimum of two (2) years’ qualified experience.
• Qualified degrees must be in a related field from an accredited university or college and could include Accounting, Business, Construction Management, Engineering, Technology, or Project Management.
• Qualified experience includes utility specific operations knowledge/experience with a good working knowledge of work processes and procedures.
• Experience should be in design, operations, planning, project management, cost tracking analysis, forecasting, and project budgets, working with accounting principles, and/or construction or maintenance of systems and/or equipment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project meetings and work with project team members on project activities.
• Support the PM in the preparation and updating of project documentation and planning.
• Assist with preparing forecasts of project spending and cash flows, budget variance monitoring, cost tracking/analysis.
• Collaborate with Project Management (PM) and other vested parties to perform variance reporting and/or establish original baseline budgets that are time-phased with dates from the system schedule.
• Create project breakdown structures.
• Perform some departmental organizational functions when necessary and as assigned to ensure the smooth operation of project functions.
• Depending on the business unit assigned, assist in the contracting process.
• Communicate with project team, resources, and other internal and external stakeholders on various budgetary items.
• Perform varied assignments demonstrating technical knowledge and analytical techniques to solution of problems or analysis.
• Develop and compile Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are measurable outcomes (scope, budgeting, schedule performance, cost performance, forecasting, etc.).
• Providing strong teamwork with colleagues, vendors and/or customers and responding to customer/vendor inquiries, resolving work order issues and/or implementing action plans in a fast-paced, results-oriented team.
• Understand the AEP project/work management organizational standards and assist in the management of projects to those standards.
• Provide training and guidance to lower level employees as appropriate.
• Recommend improvements that enhance the role, project performance, and AEP’s performance in regard to service and product delivery as well as environmental and community stewardship.
• Depending on the assigned business unit, coordinate work activities of others within work group, team or those external to the company including contractors, vendors as required to resolve routine technical tasks and field work activities.
• Make decisions and contribute to team decision making and consensus building.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to corporate accounting and project cost management systems, construction environments, earned value management, and scheduling systems is preferred but not required.
• Experience with Ecosys is desired.