Job Title: Project Control Specialist
Client: Newark, NJ, 07102
Work Type: Contract on 1099
Type: Hybrid (3-Days OnSite)
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in project controls, cost engineering, or financial analysis, ideally within utilities, energy efficiency, or infrastructure programs.
- Strong analytical and reporting skills with proficiency in Excel, Power BI, or Smartsheet.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and cost reporting practices.
- Proven ability to work independently and lead program reporting efforts.
- Familiarity with SAP.
- Clear communicator with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Organized, detail-oriented and process-driven professional who thrives in fast-paced environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and report on program budgets, forecasts, and performance dashboards.
- Track actuals vs. forecast, analyze variances, and identify corrective actions.
- Prepare monthly spend plans, accruals, and cost summaries for client reporting.
- Support KPI tracking, performance metrics, and executive dashboards.
- Coordinate with program team, PMO, and engineering teams to validate program expenditures.
- Maintain controls documentation and ensures consistency across all program workstreams.
- Identify and implement process improvements that strengthen cost control and forecasting discipline.
- Support audit and regulatory readiness by maintaining clear documentation of cost and workflow processes.
Pay: $60,007.63 - $70,008.66 per year
Benefits:
- Professional development assistance
Application Question(s):
- Your US Work Authorization ? Please State WA (Auto-Rejected if unspecified) - US Citizen, Green Card holder or US Permanent Resident, GC-EAD, H1-B Visa, H4, F1-EAD, F1-OPT, F1-STEM-OPT-Extn, Asylee, TN Visa or USMCA, etc.
- Field of Study must be Engineering, Finance or Accounting. Please specify.
Education:
Experience:
- SAP ERP: 3 years (Required)
- project controls, cost engineering, or financial analysis: 5 years (Required)
- Utilities, energy efficiency, or infrastructure programs: 3 years (Preferred)
- proficiency in Excel, Power BI, or Smartsheet: 3 years (Preferred)
- budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and cost reporting: 3 years (Preferred)
- translate data into actionable insights: 3 years (Preferred)
- Actual vs. Forcst, Anlyz variances & ID corrective actions: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newark, NJ 07102
