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Aberdeen, GB

• Responsible for monitoring and controlling allocation of costs for project’s chart of accounts.
• Provides financial and various other periodic reporting for project; including cost, commitments, contingency, margin, revenue, manhours and forecasting.
• Responsible for maintaining change management program for project; including participation in recognizing, scoping and estimating changes.
• Ensure integrity for all costs; including direct labor, indirect labor, direct material, tagged equipment, indirect material, equipment rentals, subcontracts, etc.

Broomfield, CO, US

• Ensure project controls are implemented and executed according to company policies and procedures for all water/wastewater infrastructure projects within the eastern portion of the United States.
• Work with the project team to analyze, assess and implement a claims prevention and mitigation policy, in support of the corporate Risk Management team.
• Monitor project budgets, cash flow projections, and forecast.
• Implement effective change order management and claims prevention strategies.

Cranberry Township, PA, US

• Change Management – managing and preparing deviations/Baseline Change Request and analyzing EAC’s for $900M Firm/Target/T&M subcontracts budgets.
• Liaison with Project Subcontracting group regarding progress and cost forecast.
• Coordination of the project risk management process, which includes conducting project risk sessions with senior project team to identify and mitigate potential cost and schedule threats that could impact the financial.
• Evaluate and report on influences to project contingency as affected by the risk management and change management processes.

Englewood, Colorado, US

• Establish Project Budgets, baselines and prepare monthly labor hours/dollars, material quantities/dollars and financial cost reports for comparing variances between actual cost and forecast.
• Assist with the development of the project WBS.
• Provide management support of project budget and cost control functions as per contractual requirements.
• Determined craft wage rates and developed/implemented Human Resources and payroll procedures related to hiring, orientation, induction and termination of craft employees.
• Directed and coordinated labor relations functions for project site personnel.

Englewood, Colorado, US

• Managed and supported Project Accounting staff on multiple EPC project sites (power, industrial, manufacturing, chemical, and petrochemical) valued at $2 billion.
• Trained and equipped a team to function as business managers and project accountants capable of handling craft payroll, accounts payable, billings, unions, EEO issues, subcontract administration, etc. on construction.
• Monitored project progress to assure an accurate assessment of project financial status and gross margin.

• Planned and directed accounting, controls, and administrative functions for $400 million annual revenue producing Power Group.
• Integrated accounting functions between engineering based systems and construction based systems. Prepared division budget; analyzed and consolidated financial data from field projects into division’s monthly.

• Directed and supervised accounting, administrative and financial activities for the Heavy, Civil & Marine Division.
• Prepared Division budget; receive financial data from field project and consolidated data into the division’s monthly performance reports.
• Forecast quarterly and annually job profit revenues and G&A expenses as compared to budgets.

• Responsible for implementation of Timberline Gold accounting software package used for international construction sites.
• Traveled to foreign countries to implement system and train office personnel to utilize system; adapt system for financial reporting requirements of country and specific needs of client.
• Liaison between Management Information Systems and Accounting; provided support and training to projects.

• Responsible for business and administrative functions on $91 million (lump sum) project – adding additional unit to existing power plant.

Education record

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration And Management, General