Sr. Project Controls Analyst

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Purpose/Introduction

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is seeking to fill an onsite Senior Project Controls Analyst position in the office of its chemical plant in Cedar Bayou, TX. This position requires a solid project cost and schedule management foundation. This person frequently interacts with project team leadership, project engineers, and other members of site-based functional groups in performing analysis and implementing plans to improve project controls processes. This position will report to the Capital Projects Team Lead.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of contract project cost and schedule analysts.
• Prepare, analyze and report monthly cost results and prepare monthly forecasting of expense and capital projects.
• Assist in site capital project budget for the plant, working with the controls team and the various department Team Leads
• Actively engage with project engineers and managers to understand portfolio-related priorities.
• Develop new tools and optimize existing processes to enhance the project controls methodologies.
• Coordinate project controls team in monthly accruals, forecasting, and weekly schedule updates
• Work with other site to develop Project Controls standardization across the organization.
• Work with project controls team to ensure timely submittals of project closure requests, project requisitions and SAP project number generation.
• Lead site trainings of new and existing process and be the owner of the Project Controls training documentation.
• Optimize and maintain the Project Controls workflow and associated tools.
• Assist with the preparation and delivery of presentations for site management as needed.
• Develop benchmarking and gap analysis for both project scheduling and cost controls including KPI/CPI metrics.
• Participate in weekly and monthly cost forecast activities.
• Assist in continuous cost performance monitoring and reporting on active projects.
• Work with site estimating team to ensure cost templates and wbs element structures align throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED with at least 15 years of related experience OR Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business with at least 8 years of related experience.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Solid understanding of the frameworks and methodologies of Primavera P6 schedule architectures.
• Strong business analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail are required.
• Thorough understanding of project cost management principles, in particular plant project cost accounting, forecasting, and scheduling
• Must possess strong interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate with employees at all organizational levels.
• Should be a self-starter, be an active participant on teams, and proactively meet with customers to meet their needs, this includes an “approachable mentality” working with others to foster a single team environment.
• Capable of recognizing, defining, and resolving issues. Ability to apply new technologies to improve business processes or solve business problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of MS Office (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Experience with Accounting SAP FI/CO module or other ERP systems.
• At least eight to ten years related Accounting/Finance experience
• At least five years of Chemical, Oil & Gas, or Energy industry experience
• Experience with PowerBI, SharePoint, TRACK and Planful
• Capable of recognizing, defining, and resolving issues. Ability to apply new technologies to improve business processes or solve business problems

 

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