Cost Controller

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

AtkinsRéalis is one of Canada's largest private sector nuclear engineering groups. We have been providing a wide range of services to the nuclear industry in Canada and around the world since for more than 60 years. We are proud to be the steward of Canadian CANDU nuclear technology.

Your role

Support Cost Control activities:

• Open and setup a group of projects, monitor, control and report their performance through the whole project cycle according to the company procedures and general project control practices.
• Control project cost accounts, coordinate their opening and closing according to the schedule and project status.
• Inform Manager whether proper progress measurement is in place for all project activities through the whole project cycle.
• Advise and propose solutions on matters that could prevent meeting the project objectives, provide recommendations to optimize the overall project cost.
• Independently manages assigned projects.
• Provide timely and accurate cost report updates at the end of each reporting period for the project control accounts to warrant proper monthly cost report.
• Provide regular reports on project cost status and cost deviations and recommend remedial actions.
• Provide regular reports on project time accumulation, analyse time budget variances, recommend remedial actions.
• Provide input to client reporting as per contract requirements.
• Prepare forward looking project and business cash flow forecasts.
• Coordinate change management process on the project.
• Report on the areas of concern that could prevent meeting the project objectives.
• Interface with other Project Controls and Cost Controllers to maintain integrated cost‑schedule project control system.
• Interface with planners on the deliverables' progress to update estimate‑to‑complete.
• Present to team members as required.
• Collaborate with Financial Shared Services Centre (FSSC) to initiate, review and issue client invoices.
• Prepare earned value analysis and progress reporting for all activities on project. Identify and explain variances between actual costs, plan, earned values and forecasts, communicate the reasons for the variances and identify the problem areas to the Project Manager.
• Support the Project Manager in conducting cost risk analysis on a periodic basis.
• Special assignments, ad hoc reports and other related duties as required.
• Ensure proper commitment tracking and reporting for PO's.
• Performing accruals analysis on monthly basis.

About you

• University degree (Bachelors).
• 5‑7 years of relevant cost control experience.
• Solid understanding of accruals (Client/Vendor).
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle processes.
• Operational knowledge of ECOSYS.
• Ability to manage multiple requests.
• Mandatory - Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Why choose AtkinsRéalis?

Wherever you are in your career – and whoever you are – AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where – and how far – your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there's no limit to how brilliant you can be. It's time to join a like‑minded team where you'll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career at AtkinsRéalis in Canada.

Enjoy competitive compensation, employee recognition, and a brilliant range of flexible benefits you can tailor to your health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle needs.

Make the most of diverse opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise.

And take advantage of our hybrid working culture and generous time‑off policies to balance a fulfilling career with your personal life.

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We're AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's'infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.