Project Planner and Cost Controller

Job Description

We are currently seeking an experienced, thorough, and insightful Project Planner and Cost Controller to oversee costs and plans of our projects.Planner Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule and update progress of activities for assigned projects
• Prepare short and long-term resource allocation plans based on input from all key players and team members.
• Develop detailed task lists and work effort assessment.
• Prepare and maintain resource loaded project schedule
• Keep project resources on track
• Maintain contact with staff to monitor job progress
• Ensure to convey required project data and information to project teams.
• Educate employees in methods to ensure project continuity and completeness.
• Monitor and analyze project effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative tools.
• Oversee schedules and risk management plans and provide serious deviations warnings hindering project results.
• Recommend and implement modifications to improve effectiveness and attain project milestones.
• Provide regular project updates to project manager including project financials
• Resolve conflicting activities, make scheduling adjustments, and confer with managers to change budget and resource allocations
• Assess other parties EoT and cost claims by proper analytical tools of MS Project and/or Primavera.

• Provide regular reports on project cost status and cost deviations and recommend remedial actions
• Provide regular reports on project time accumulation, analyze time budget variances, recommend remedial actions
• Open and setup a group of projects, monitor, control and report their performance through the whole project life cycle according to the company procedures and general project control practices
• Control project cost accounts, coordinate their opening and closing according to the schedule and project status
• Manage whether a proper progress measurement is in place for all project activities through the whole project cycle
• Propose solutions on matters that could prevent meeting the project objectives and provide recommendations to optimize the overall project cost
• Provide timely and accurate cost report updates at the end of each reporting period for the project control accounts to warrant proper monthly cost report
• Provide input to client reporting as per contract requirements
• Prepare look-ahead project program and business cash flow forecasts
• Coordinate change management process on the project
• Report on the areas of concern that could prevent meeting the project objectives
• Conduct site visits for data collection to report on project plan progress and incurred costs.
• Interface with other project controls staff including cost controllers and planners to maintain an integrated cost-schedule project control system
• Interface with planners on the deliverables? progress to update estimate-to-complete
• Present to team members as required
• Collaborate with Accounting and Finance department to initiate, review and issue client invoices
• Special assignments, ad hoc reports and other related duties as required (Example: Project Progress Report, KPIs Report, PIP, Earned Value Management Reporting, etc.)

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