Senior Project Planner

• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  UK
  - London
  - Aldgate Tower

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• Skilled in the use of company cornerstone systems and able to represent cost data formats necessary to control the project.
• Understands financial terminology and measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions.
• Participates in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues.
• May assist in leading junior staff through assignment tasks.
• Participates in tracking action items.
• Able to use drawings and specifications in the establishment of project baseline data.
• Knowledgeable of accounting principles with extensive understanding of the manner in which the company establishes and documents the financial position.
• Prepares revised cost forecast for select accounts.
• Prepares analysis of progress trends and cost impact. May participate in reviewing and approving contractor invoices.
• Works hands on with earned value monitoring.
• Evaluates manpower, labor hour, and labor cost requirements versus budget limitations including preparation of variance analysis.
• Compares actual cost to funding limitations. Prepares expenditure forecasts to identify critical points in project funding.
• Reviews purchase order and subcontract commitments and expenditures. Maintains tracking database to insure that subcontractor funding is aligned with work authorization and expenditures.
• Understands the manner in which profits on projects are budgeted and the extent to which the budget value is achieved.
• Possesses the knowledge of scope control and change management. Involved in the tracking system to insure that project management is fully aware of detailed change order status.
• Creates and assists with cost/schedule baseline budgets.
• Familiar with basic cost/schedule integration and basic critical path analysis and other rescheduling concepts.
• Conducts or assists in performance measurement and associated cost trending.
• Prepares and assists in various levels of project reporting.
• Participates in and may lead project cost review meetings.
• Assists in procedure development and implementation.

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Here’s what we’re looking for:

Demonstrable experience in the following areas would be highly advantageous

• Confident in leading meetings
• Comfortable being a right hand person to a Project Manager
• Developed and maintained
  integrated project schedules
  using tools such as
  MS Project, Primavera P6
• Defined
  work breakdown structures (WBS), dependencies, milestones, and critical paths
• Produced
  baseline schedules
  , monitored progress, and managed
  schedule change control
• Forecasted
  resource demand
  and aligned plans with delivery and operational teams
• Identified
  schedule risks
  , constraints, and mitigations
• Generated
  progress reports
  , dashboards, and executive summaries for stakeholders

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