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AECOM Project Controls Specialist in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company Description
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Job Description
AECOM are currently seeking a Project Controls Specialist to join our Dubai office. The Project Controls Specialist will work as part of our operations team placed in our Building and Places end market. The successful candidate will be responsible for setting up project controls systems (including set up of work breakdown structure and baseline budgets), capturing to-date progress and expenditure data, analyzing to-date performance data such as Earned Value, forecasting at-completion performance data (EAC costs, hours), and identifying project risks and opportunities.
Responsibilities:
Develops and maintains Work Breakdown
Structure for projects.
Collects actual costs and analyzes performance against baseline budgets.
Collects progress data and performs Earned Value Analysis.
Prepares weekly progress and performance tracking reports.
Investigates variances from the baseline and analyzes performance trends.
Pro-actively identifies and reports financial risks and opportunities. Communicates effectively with relevant stakeholders.
Provides financial data and supports project reporting process as required. Participates in project review meetings.
Drives compliance to the internal governance requirements with regards to change management.
Works closely with the Project Management team and interfaces with various disciplines.
Works with the company financial and cornerstone systems and processes.
Applies financial terminology, measures, financial data analysis concepts and accounting principles in assignments.
Familiar with scheduling fundamentals and cost/schedule integration concepts and principles
Qualifications
A minimum of 5+ years’ experience in Project Controls field is required.
Experience in a multinational engineering consultancy firm is a plus.
In addition, applicants should be able to demonstrate the following:
Hands-on experience in Cost Controlling.
Sound understanding of Earned Value Methodology.
Sound understanding of accounting principles.
Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
Familiar with change management fundamentals.
Familiar with scheduling concepts and methodologies
Additional Information
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10117271
Business Line: Building Engineering
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa
Career Area: Program & Project Management
Work Location Model: On-Site
Legal Entity: AECOM MIDDLE EAST LIMITED DUBAI BRANCH