Project Controls Analyst

Job Summary

The Project Controls Analyst supports the Solution Delivery organization by improving the structure, quality, and usability of project and customer support data used to manage delivery performance. The role contributes to schedule control, resource visibility, risk tracking, and project reporting and customer support by maintaining reliable information and supporting consistent project controls practices

This is an entry-level individual contributor role within the Project Controls and PMO function. The role combines foundational project controls discipline with data analytics, reporting, and PMO systems support. The analyst works with project managers and stakeholders to help ensure that project plans, progress updates, and reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, and decision-relevant.

The position also supports the evolution of solution delivery toward more integrated, automated, and data-driven project controls, including dashboards, workflows, and early-stage AI-enabled capabilities.

What You Will Do

You will work alongside project managers and delivery teams to ensure that project controls are reliable, actionable, and drive outcomes.

Core responsibilities include:

Maintain and improve project schedules, ensuring alignment with actual execution progress

Translate delivery status into clear, decision-relevant reporting for internal leadership and customers

Identify inconsistencies between plans and reality and drive correction with the delivery team

Support forecasting, resource visibility, and risk tracking to enable early intervention

Ensure project data is trusted without reconciliation cycles

This is not a reporting role. If the schedule is wrong, you fix the schedule with the team.

How You Will Create Impact

Your success is measured by delivery outcomes, not by the quality of artifacts.

Over time, you will:

Move project controls from reactive reporting to forward-looking steering

Increase confidence in schedules and forecasts across projects

Enable earlier identification and mitigation of risks

Reduce dependency on manual reconciliation and subjective interpretation

You will introduce more advanced methods such as predictive forecasting, scenario modeling, and automation - always anchored in real project execution.

What This Role Is Not

This role sits deliberately between traditional project controls and pure analytics.

It is not:

A business intelligence or data science role focused on building analytics products

A traditional scheduling role focused on maintaining tools

A strategy or consulting role analyzing organizational performance

If your primary motivation is to build dashboards, optimize data pipelines, or work detached from delivery teams, this role will not meet your expectations.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for individuals who combine structured thinking with a bias toward real-world execution.

You are likely a strong fit if you:

Prefer resolving inconsistencies over perfecting models

Are comfortable working with incomplete or imperfect data and still enabling decisions

Challenge assumptions when data does not reflect actual progress

See tools and analytics as a way to improve delivery systems, not as an end in themselves

Are motivated by making projects succeed, not just by making data look correct

You are drawn to environments where:

Reality is messy

Progress depends on influencing teams, not just building tools

Improvement requires both structure and persistence

Primary Responsibilities

Project Controls and Scheduling Support

* Supports development, maintenance, and quality control of project schedules, including activities, dependencies, milestones, and progress updates

* Assists with cost- and resource-loaded schedules in PMO systems such as Oracle Primavera Cloud or similar tools

* Tracks project progress against baselines, contractual milestones, and near-term execution plans

* Identifies schedule variances, activity relationships, data quality gaps, and potential risks for review by project managers

* Contributes to recurring deliverables such as schedule updates, progress reports, and short-term lookahead plans

Resource and Risk Management Support

* Maintains structured data related to resource assignments, capacity, and forecasted work

* Supports preparation and tracking of project risks, including updates, documentation, and visibility of mitigation actions

* Assists with recurring project controls cadences (e.g., resource alignment reviews, risk reviews) by preparing data and supporting follow-up actions

Reporting, Dashboards, and Analytics

* Develops and maintains reports and dashboards to provide visibility into schedule performance, resource utilization, and risk exposure

* Uses tools such as Power BI, Excel, and SharePoint to structure and analyze project data

* Supports identification of trends, performance issues, and emerging risks through data analysis

* Ensures reporting outputs are accurate, consistent, and aligned with management needs

Automation and Continuous Improvement

* Identifies…