# Cost Controls Specialist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Houston, TX
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Cost Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team supporting Power & Energy programs, including transmission line and substation capital projects.

The successful candidate will develop, maintain, and monitor project cost control processes for transmission line, substation, and related Power & Energy projects. Key responsibilities include:

- Preparing and maintaining project budgets, forecasts, cash flows, cost reports, accruals, commitments, and financial projections

- Tracking actual costs, commitments, contingency, change orders, invoices, and cost coding

- Performing cost variance analysis, trend analysis, and earned value management support

- Using cost management and PMIS platforms such as EcoSys, Procore, Oracle, e-Builder, or similar systems

- Producing regular cost reports, budget variance summaries, forecast updates, and executive-level financial dashboards

The ideal candidate will have:

- A bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field

- 7-10 years of experience in cost controls, project controls, finance, or related functions on capital projects

- Advanced hands-on experience with forecasting, budget tracking, variance analysis, cost reporting, and change control

- Experience with cost management, ERP, and PMIS tools

- Strong analytical, communication, and coordination skills

## Skills

### Required
- cost controls
- project controls
- finance
- forecasting
- budget tracking
- variance analysis
- cost reporting

### Nice to have
- EcoSys
- Procore
- Oracle
- e-Builder
- earned value management

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