Project Controller

The Opportunity

TC Energy is looking to add a Project Controller to our US Project Controls team in Houston, TX. Reporting to the Project Controls Manager, the Project Controller is responsible for providing detailed capital project cost support, including purchase requisitions, invoice attestation to ensure monitoring, forecasting and controlling of the project budget.

What You'll Do

• Conduct accounting transfers to ensure proper cost placement
• Maintain work orders through SAP/PowerPlan
• Project Initiation including SAP/PowerPlan
• Continuously work on requisition closeout
• Partner with Field Material Coordinator to ensure materials tracking is performed
• Coordinate with Project Team to review data to ensure commitments, schedule requirements, and risk items are accurately represented in the project forecast
• Collaborate with the Project Manager and team to define construction cost tracking based on purchase order terms ensuring proper link with schedule
• Track use of contingency, management reserve, and approved changes to project budget
• Analyze, track, and report project (or contract specific) financial KPIs, and communicate their status to the project team
• Contribute to and implement Project Delivery requirements (i.e. PDS, TOMS and any applicable TransCanada Project Delivery requirement)
• Participate in project meetings; gather, prepare, and analyze data for Quantitative or Qualitative Risk Assessments; ensure risk information is incorporated into the project forecast
• Resolve unexpected items or inaccuracies in forecast data
• Support the Project Manager by providing financial reporting requirements for bidding, during contract selection and administration of the contracts as required
• Perform Final Cost Reconciliation
• Secure records properly and in compliance with TransCanada's requirements
• Identify opportunities for improvement to forecasting and other project cost control methodologies and document as lessons learned
• Maintain high level of focus on health, safety, and environment
• Willingness to travel as needed
• Maintains on going, positive presence with project team members, other stakeholders, and outside entities, i.e. Construction Contractors, vendors, through professional communications; able to work toward resolution of situations with all parties
• Other tasks as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Written, verbal, presentation and electronic communication skills; ability to communicate with all levels of the Project Controls and Project Management organization effectively
• Requires a Degree in Finance, Business Management, Engineering or Project Management degree preferred; a university degree, with 4 or more years of related experience with cost control concepts and practices on capital projects. Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
• Experience with Microsoft Desktop software, Windows, Word, Excel, and Power Point.
• Experienced with Excel spreadsheets, word processing and database software; proficient in use of PC; willingness to use and learn current and future systems/applications;
• Ability to work independently and on teams
• Requires an aptitude for attention to detail, accuracy, precision and logic
• Must be results oriented and possess sound problem-solving skills
• Organized and able to manage varied tasks and identify appropriate prioritization for timely execution
• Ability to work well with all levels of the Company, especially within the Project Team as well as contract personnel to facilitate the accomplishment of project work; must be able to process information and make decisions under stress, obtaining project management buy-in on those decisions
• Working knowledge of how to assess the relationship between cost and schedule data; communicates that assessment to Project Management, supervisors, and other members of the Project Team
• Ability to analyze project cost data/status and to communicate those findings to Project Management
• Exhibits the behaviors valued in the organization
• Proven supportive team member who helps oversee, lead, advise and motivate a work team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP preferred
• Knowledgeable and experienced with cost engineering principles and methods including budgeting and forecasting, change management, management systems/procedures, Cost and Work Breakdown Structures, Earned Value Systems and contingency management;
• Provides high level of quality of cost reports and forecasts
• Working knowledge of how to recognize and evaluate risks, hazards, losses and their cost impact
• Working knowledge of the principles of version control and the change management processes
• Knowledge and some experience with project and portfolio management processes, policies and principles