Scott Saylor Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Scott Saylor is a Project Controls Analyst within Black & Veatch’s Government & Environmental business, and his primary responsibilities include providing financial, schedule, R&O, and resource support for project teams and divisional leadership. He acts as the trusted financial advisor for more than 80 projects >$250K Project Fee, which includes preparing and analyzing budgets and forecasts, providing forensic schedule review and creation, and assessing discipline level forecasting. Mr. Saylor has more than 10 years of experience at Black & Veatch with assignments including international statutory accounting & reporting, accounting operations & applications, and project accounting, in addition to field construction services for the Power Generation business dba Overland Contracting, Inc.Cost:•Leads project cost controls team to prepare baseline cost deliverables.•Leads and analyzes monthly/quarterly reports.•Leads SOV reporting.•Leads change mgmt program.•Applies key scheduling processes. Schedule/Planning:•Leads project controls scheduling team in plan & schedule preparation. •Interfaces with construction contractor partners for Planning and Scheduling activities.•Ensures constructability is part of planning process.•Applies key cost control processes. PJC Management:•Develops project control professionals.•Coordinates planning and cost control functions on less complex projects after baseline in place.•Ensures systems are in place to know work status and identify issues proactively. •Interfaces with management team to identify issues.•Advises field teams and HO PCM on matters affecting project success.•Lead/direct PJC activities with construction partners.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

*Trusted business advisor to Project Management and Financial Leadership for 200 active projects.*Prepares and analyzes budgets and forecasts, and performs forecast variance analysis.*Performs complex monthly billings and manual billing/revenue adjustments.*Led department enrichment efforts to provide a "30,000 ft view" of projects - what do we do and why?*Piloted the Revenue Recognition series of e-Learning courses for the Black & Veatch Finance College.*Provides Client Resource Manager proposal support for Project Directorship and advises project management on proposal budgets.*Serves as the primary and lead project accounting contact for The infraManagement Group.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

*Facilitated and reconciled the various cost processes that post the project labor & cost from all source systems to Oracle and consolidated database to ensure precise financial reporting, completed under tight deadlines.*Led a project to build a new reconciliation tool, achieved result was a reduction in process times by 6 hours per week.*Posted and reconciled $11M per month in cost & labor entries to domestic, JV, and international firms.*Frequently advised PA's from all divisions on job cost information, audit research, expenditure costing, statutory reporting, and provided Oracle and database training.*Interdivisional liaison and systems expert for Finance, Reporting, and Financial Applications.*Acting administrator for the B&V Procurement Card, covering 350 accountholders with $800K in monthly activity.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

*Performed accounting and financial reporting for international B&V firms, reconciled multicurrency Balance Sheet accounts to identify and analyze R&O for financial reporting management.*Coordinated with International and Domestic Tax, Legal, Project Teams, Payroll, AR, AP, and Treasury departments for various cross-functional accounting tasks.*Coordinated with senior accountant staff on a process improvement project to build a co-wide audit database to quickly review the Statutory Audit information for the yearly B&V Financial Audits.

Danville, Illinois, United States

*Conducted audits by examining and reconciling client accounts payable financial data to recover revenue utilizing appropriate audit concepts.*Reviewed contracts, amendments, purchase orders, and buyer files researching errors in vendor billings.*Analyzed and assessed problems regarding client's purchasing procedure and business operations.