Commercial Project Controller

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A Commercial Project Controller or a project controller analyst works to monitor, coordinate, and control a project from start to finish. Commercial Project controllers deal closely with financial budgeting to ensure all processes run smoothly during a project. The position will support the North America Commercial Director and Project Team Commercial Managers in providing an effective cost and commercial management process and reporting mechanism across the North America portfolio of Data Center development projects. 

Responsibilities: 

• Follow-on support with finance to ensure alignment of project forecast with current funding and billings to clients

• Contribute as SME to the development of governance, processes, and training materials.

• · Identify and evaluate potential changes and review of contractor invoices

• Examine requests for budget revisions, recommend approval or denial and draft correspondence

• Support the change control process, establishing the necessary forms, logs and expediting methods

• Attend and assist in effective financial project reviews

• Assist with month end and yearly close out activities

• Help to oversee the cost control systems i.e., Oracle, Tririga, Excel and Google Live Sheets

• Contribute as SME to the development of governance, processes, and training materials.

• Perform assignments that are usually broad in nature and require initiative, judgment and creativity

Financial Administration

• Create and manage a cost and commercial management process, deliver and train with the Project Controls Manager  

• Support Project Controls Managers to ensure full change control processes are in place to ensure full management control exists to deliver projects within approved or forecasted parameters

• Flag any risks, potential changes or actual changes in a timely, transparent and accurate way

• Implement periodic reviews of processes and recommend improvements

Key Skills, Requirements and Competencies: 

• Bachelor degree in accounting, facilities management, business/finance or equivalent is desirable

• Minimum 5+ years in the delivery of mission critical construction projects of increasing responsibility and client facing positions in a corporate real estate or military setting. 

• Demonstrated proficiency in budgeting/accounting 

• Preference for operating with substantial independence and strongly self- motivated

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to interface effectively with clients, peers across Iron Mountain and Iron Mountain senior management 

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills

• Strong influencing skills through the use of facts and logical arguments and the development of trusting relationships with clients

• Excellent organizational navigation skills

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