General responsibilities:

Establish and execute proper cost controls to support, monitor and communicate cost performance against budget and forecasted costs, labor-hours and quantities. Cost Control is primarily focused on reporting the actual status of the project, reporting trends, and estimating the value of uncompleted work to help forecast costs, labor-hours and quantities at project completion.

Typical tasks:

• Maintain a cost control system using SAP, Company proprietary software, Excel, and other tools.
• Review, analyze and report budget, expenditure and forecast costs for a portfolio of projects.
• Monitor monthly incurred costs, tracking cost trends for labor, equipment and material.
• Provide project management with reports of budget, forecast, actual costs, incurred costs, and forecast final costs for a portfolio of projects.
• Ensure monthly reports are produced and reviewed with each project manager in a timely manner.
• Make updates to forecast based on input from project managers, construction, and procurement teams. 
• Coordinate with accounting and outside contractors to help manage monthly accruals.
• Monitor cost data provided by contractors, participate in the project change process, review purchase orders, invoices, estimates to help maintain cost logs and forecasts.
• Create Work Breakdown structures with input from project managers and assign work orders.