Location: Newark
Term: 12 months
Pay: up to 45.00 an hour
contract to hire
This position has the primary responsibility of tracking and forecasting enterprise or divisional program and project performance against budgets, plans and schedules. Their primary area of responsibility is managing the integration of multiple programs and/or projects; providing data, analysis, and reporting to project managers and various levels of management.
Project Controllers have responsibility to integrate data from many, diverse programs and projects to provide many types of information and reporting, including trend analysis, earned value analysis, divisional or enterprise resource forecasts, resource modeling, resource leveling, cost profiling, project prioritization, divisional or enterprise budgeting, periodic status reports to departments, to divisions, and to enterprise executives.
producing a variety of management reports.
This position will also have a dotted line reporting responsibility into the Finance area
- Develop and implement procedures, systems, and reports pertaining to program/project status and forecasts. Responsible for the cost/schedule control system, cost estimating capability, and the management reporting on these.
- Monitor the movement and allocation of project funds within programs.
- Provide input and review for development of schedule, work breakdown structure, estimates and work packages during the different phases of a project.
- Provide guidance to Project Managers for project budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting. The need for this assistance and expertise starts with Data Elicitation and continues throughout the project.
- Maintain accurate records of committed, expended and forecast costs and monitor all organizational project costs to determine and verify the Planned Value, Actual Cost, Earned Value, Cost Variance, Cost Performance Index, and Estimate at Completion.
- Manage the transfer of cost data from financial, accounting, and procurement systems to the organizational project control system, review data transfer errors with the appropriate Project Planner / Scheduler or Project Manager and coordinate corrections with the accounting staff.
- Develop timely, accurate, in-depth analysis of organizational cost and schedule data, provide corrective action recommendations; develop and implement project cost and schedule baselines; develop, track, report subcontract accruals; track and monitor acquisition commitments; develop strategic planning schedules and provide support to project management in cost, schedule, performance measurement, forecasting and variance analysis.
- Provide cash-flow analysis reports.
- Identify cost-savings opportunities, and develop programs to achieve long-term savings.
Business: Business Acumen, Follow-up, Negotiation, Decision Making, Planning & Organizing, Quality Orientation
Leadership: Driving Execution, Meeting Leadership, Mobilize Resources
Personal: Communication, Continuous Improvement, Work Standards
Technical: Business Objects, Planview, Lotus Notes, MS-Office including Visio and Project
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree
- Eight (8)+ years professional business experience, prefer Health Insurance Industry
- Six (6)+ years experience in a Project Management; preferably in a PMO environment
- Three (3)+ years prior management experience required
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, scheduling (CPM) and analytical reporting including baselines development and Earned Value Management Systems.
- Experience summarizing results and producing project management reports
Additional licensing, certifications, registrations:
- PMI's PMP certification required.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of Healthcare industry preferred
- Advanced computer skills and knowledge of the most current industry standard computerized project control applications, such as cost and planning software; working knowledge of computer relational databases, computer estimating systems and budget control monitoring techniques.
- High level numeracy, analytical skills and management accounting knowledge.
Skills and Abilities:
- Sound task management skills and strong analytical ability.
- Ability to assign and manage work activities and meet deadlines.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team and foster teamwork in others.
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments; manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Proficiency in project control techniques and principles, and ability to perform comprehensive organizational forecasting and analysis.
- Positive customer service orientation, with both internal and external clients required.
- Strong interpersonal skills required, demonstrating a commitment and ability to work with diverse work groups and individuals.
- Ability to work in a flexible team environment and, independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to write clear concise reports for project reporting.
- Proficiency with project controls computer applications.
- Strong organization skills,
- Expertise in the MS Office suite, including MS Project & Visio are required
- Expertise in a Portfolio Management System; Planview preferred.
Gerry
AJILON FINANCE SOLUTIONS
Gerry Cimaglia
Senior Manager
Phone: 973 331 3890
Fax: 973 331 3891
99 Cherry Hill rd, 1st floor
Parsippany, NJ 07054
www.ajilonfs.com
gerry.cimaglia@ajilonfs.com
"Senior Finance & Operations Project Professionals"
Ajilon Finance Solutions is the consulting group of Ajilon. We partner with top companies to deliver just in time solutions and senior level consultants to solve the critical finance, accounting and business challenges facing senior management.
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