Capital Budgets Consultant | Financial Planning & Project Support

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Summary

Capital Budgets Consultant | Financial Planning & Project Support

Are you a detail-oriented finance professional with a passion for driving financial success in engineering projects? We are seeking a Capital Budgets Consultant to support budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis for Generation engineering projects. In this role, you will collaborate closely with Project Managers and stakeholders to ensure financial accuracy, strategic allocation of resources, and seamless project execution.

 

What your day would be like:

You are responsible for:

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Conduct routine to advanced financial activities, including budgeting, variance analysis, and short- and long-term forecasting for capital projects.
• Project Budgeting & Reporting: Monitor project expenditures, track financial performance, and provide timely insights to Project Managers to ensure projects stay within scope and budget.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as a financial advisor to engineering teams, ensuring financial best practices are followed and project funding is optimized.
• Process Improvement: Support the continuous improvement of financial planning methodologies, project management processes, and financial reporting tools.
• Project Closeout Support: Assist in finalizing project financials, reconciling budgets, and ensuring compliance with financial policies.

The kinds of people we want to talk to

• Experienced in capital budgeting, financial forecasting, and variance analysis within a corporate or project-based environment.
• Proficient in financial modeling and reporting tools, with strong attention to detail.
• Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including finance, engineering, and project management.
• Able to analyze financial data, identify trends, and provide strategic recommendations.
• Adaptable and solutions-oriented, with a drive to improve financial processes.

Minimum Requirements

Capital Budgets Consultant | Financial Planning & Project Support

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics or other job-related field from an accredited college or university
• PLUS seven (7) years of experience in financial analysis and/or accounting.  
• In lieu of a bachelor's degree, combination of college coursework and/or experience in financial analysis and/or accounting equaling 11 years.

Preferred Special Skills, Knowledge or Qualifications

• Project management experience.
• Knowledge of Project Management Institute project controls principals.
• Knowledge of EPMS (Enterprise Project Management System).
• Knowledge of long-range forecast process.
• Experience using Microsoft applications (Excel, Word).

Major Accountabilities

1) Creates current year decommissioning budget and manages to target. Creates and updates the ten-year decommissioning Long Range Forecast (LRF).  Analyzes spend and makes appropriate recommendations to management.  Tracks, identifies discrepancies and makes recommendations to adjust the current year decommissioning budget and LRF.
2) Monitors and tracks current year capital budget. Identifies overrun trends. Recommends opportunities to reduce overages.
3) Partners with Project Managers and Plant Managers to create and manage the list of projects that can be pushed out of current year or pulled into current year when asked by the company to increase or decrease spend quickly.
4) Tracks collector spending and forecasting.  Provides accurate forecasting of project schedules by working closely with plant managers and personnel to understand changes in plant work schedules.
5) Manages EPMS actions for plant-led capital projects by partnering with plant personnel to update EPMS (e.g., cost information, stage gate approval, etc.) to close out projects.
6) Manages updates to Risk and Opportunity (R&O) and Outage Discovery Lists by partnering with plant managers to identify risk projects (break-in projects).  Identify give-back opp