Project Controls Cost Analyst

Job Title: Project Controls Cost Analyst

PS Job Title: Cost Analyst

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

**This position will be filled as an Analyst II - Sr. Lead based on the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate.**

The position is to be based in the Woodlands, Texas, New Orleans, LA or Jackson, MS

Job Summary/Purpose: 

The Project Controls Cost Analyst is capable of supporting multi-million dollar ($500M and above) mega projects for New Generation Capital Projects from Development through Execution.  This position supports project teams as a crucial partner in areas of project budget maintenance, maintaining change management, milestone payments KPI’s, progress measurement and forecast analysis on a monthly reporting cadence.  This position works with internal and external stakeholders within a highly matrix environment to provide analytical expertise to support project and portfolio management.

Job Duties/Responsibilities: 

•  Support projects through multiple stage gates from Development through Delivery.  Includes establishing and maintaining cost baselines, cash and accrual forecasting models, accrual vs. spend analysis, maintaining cost breakdown structures and ensuring alignment with EPC contractual requirements. 
• Knowledge of lump sum contracts.  Experience in reviewing EPC contractor costs including invoices, tax application/ tariffs, potential change notices (PCN’s) and change orders (CO’ s).
• Maintains, monitors and publishes monthly KPI’s related to EVM CPI metrics, baseline variance analysis, ETC, EAC, remaining contingency analysis, and Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA).  Reports findings and provides comments to the project team.
• Identifies cost risks and opportunities through the project life cycle, and manages these risks with the project team.  Provides clear insight into contingency allocation and trends to provide cost impact assessments for technical and execution decisions.
• Tracks and trends contractors and owners actual costs and forecasts versus budget, identifies variances and trends and recommends mitigation actions.
• Utilizes COGNOS, POWER BI, Maximo, and Power Plan to perform monthly forensic cost analyses, interpret the output and develop presentations from the data set (where applicable).
• Demonstrates very good documentation, technical writing, and organization skills to effectively control documents availability and readiness for ROD requirements, prudency review, deposition hearings, filing for PSC, Change Order Process and or other legal requirements. Displays a solid understanding of Document Mgmt. Skill.
• Demonstrate commitment to safety through active participation in safety meetings, safety inspections and field observations where applicable.

Minimum Requirements: 

• B.S. in Finance, Accounting, Project Management, Construction Management or applicable course of study or equivalent work experience.

Minimum experience required of the position:

• Analyst II: 2+ years mega-project or utility project experience
• Analyst III: 4-6 years of mega-project experience or 3+years utility project experience.
• Analyst, Sr.: At least 6 years of mega-project or utility project experience

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position: 

• Capital Project development and execution cost analysis experience with an owner or contractor.
• Understanding of commercial agreements and contracting strategies
• Analytical skill set with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Proficiency in ERP (Cognos, JDE, SAP etc), Power BI, Maximo, Power Plan, cost/forecasting tools (Ecosys, Oracle, Cura, etc)
• Understanding of cost, schedule and risk alignment

Desired:

• Project Controls experience
• Knowledge of Entergy financial and accounting systems and processes
• Working knowledge of the regulatory agencies for which the projects will be governed. These include NERC/MISO/FERC/Public Service Commission/City Council, etc. where applicable.

Primary Location: Texas-The Woodlands Texas : The Woodlands || Louisiana : New Orleans || Mississippi : Jackson 
Job Function: Corporate
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 124134 
PS Job Title: Cost Analyst 
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test.  The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and Pre-employment Testing:  of questions.  Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, numberLogon ID:  entergy, password:  practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.