What are the responsibilities of the position?
More Specifically, You Will
- Monitor and control project finances (accruals, forecasts, budgets, invoicing)
- Ensure that the monthly financial project management cycle's timelines are respected
- Manage project delivery monitoring and control: overseeing progress reports and updating project logs
- Contribute to project start up activities: drafting business plans, financial justifications and project plans, timelines and budgets
- Analyze and assess project progress and support project and portfolio managers in implementing mitigation measures, as well as assisting them with reporting
- Advise project (and program) managers and their team members on the use of management standards and methods as well as templates and other tools
- Work closely with Procurement and Accounts Payable on change requests and invoicing
- Contribute to project completion activities: addressing outstanding issues, managing lessons learned and closing out the project administratively.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in administration, management, engineering or another relevant field, with 3 to 7 years of experience as a project controller
- Proficiency in Microsoft Project and the Microsoft Project Online environment
- Proficiency with advanced functions of Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft Office suite
- Familiarity with document management best practices and SharePoint
- Organization, planning and prioritization skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Communications skills
- Bilingualism (English and French)
Assets
- PMP Certification
- Knowledge of PMBOK and other project management methodologies
