Project Control Officer – Expert
- Location: Toronto, ON – Hybrid (2 days per week in-office, plus every fourth Friday)
- Pay Rate: $42.23/hr – $49.84/hr
- Contract Length: 6 Months with a possibility of extension
We at Raise are hiring a Project Control Officer – Expert for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
- Strong financial acumen and project coordination skills, including experience with accrual processing, maintaining balanced financials, and working with the general ledger (GL).
- The role involves a heavy focus on financial activities, particularly during month-end and the beginning of each month. Responsibilities include managing program financials (e.g., accruals and financial reporting) and developing presentation materials for weekly status meetings presented to executive steering committees.
- Additionally, the candidate should have experience integrating Power BI, including reporting across Excel and SharePoint, and automating status reporting processes.
- Check the master schedule and work orders, establish priorities, and change the schedule according to projects, work order specifications, priorities, and availability of workers, material, or equipment.
- Participate in meetings with clients and task members to determine the progress of work and identify additional follow-up needs.
- Provide general administrative support, including monitoring the calendar, setting up meetings, making travel and/or meeting arrangements, entering time, and filing expense reports.
- Compile reports concerning progress of work and downtime to distribute to personnel involved in the project.
- Ensure project control procedures and policies within a number of projects are executed and functioning according to Technology’s project performance standards.
- Consolidate and integrate Work Breakdown Structure data.
- Develop, consolidate, and reconcile management and resource allocation reports.
- Track progress and make decisions regarding response plans.
- Track and reconcile financials.
Must-Have Requirement:
- 10+ years of related experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/education.
- Demonstrated experience managing program financials (e.g., Accruals, creating financial reports – presented to executive steering committees, chargebacks, processing of invoices, financial forecasting)
Nice to Have:
- Experience at banking is an asset
- Advanced proficiency in MS Project, Excel, and PowerPoint/sharepoint
- Jira / Power BI
Skills:
- Possess a basic level of Project Management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Written and verbal communication skills.
- Interpersonal skills to be able to interface effectively with a broad range of contacts from technical staff to senior management.
- Organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple concurrent activities and to work successfully under pressure.
- Analytical thinker with the ability to solve problems.
- Can deal with ambiguity and requests for change.
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Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.
We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.
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