Project Controls Regulatory Reporting & Compliance Lead

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Project Controls – Regulatory Reporting & Compliance Lead with our large power and utilities client in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12-month contract with a potential for extension.

Pay: $87.00 - $97.00/hr
; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Description:

We are responsible for leading regulatory reporting, compliance activities, and information requests for major gas generation projects. The role serves as the primary liaison between project leadership, regulatory affairs, legal, finance, engineering, construction, contracts, procurement, and project controls organizations to develop accurate, timely, and defensible regulatory filings, audits, executive briefings, and business communications.

The ideal candidate is an experienced Project Controls leader with expertise in large-scale EPC project execution, including cost, schedule, forecasting, risk, change management, and project performance reporting. This individual will leverage deep project controls knowledge to translate complex project data into regulatory and executive communications while leading cross-functional reporting efforts with significant independence.

The successful candidate will integrate project information into clear, concise, and defensible regulatory and executive communications. The position requires exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational and communication capabilities, and the ability to influence and coordinate across multiple functional organizations.

This position operates with significant independence and is expected to lead complex cross‑functional reporting efforts with limited supervisory direction. This position is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Serve as the project controls subject matter expert for regulatory reporting and compliance activities.
• Provide independent review and challenge of project cost, schedule, forecast, contingency, change management, and risk information incorporated into regulatory submissions.
• Integrate cost, schedule, risk, earned value, productivity, and performance metrics into executive and regulatory reporting.
• Partner with project controls teams to ensure consistency between regulatory filings, project forecasts, business plans, and executive reporting.
• Evaluate project performance trends and communicate risks, opportunities, and key drivers impacting project cost and schedule outcomes.
• Support development and defense of project controls methodologies, forecasting assumptions, contingency usage, and project performance metrics during audits, prudency reviews, and regulatory proceedings.
• Regulatory Reporting & Compliance
• Lead development, coordination, and delivery of regulatory reports, filings, audits, and information requests.
• Serve as the primary coordinator for project‑related regulatory reporting activities.
• Lead cross‑functional responses to regulatory data requests, ensuring completeness, consistency, accuracy, and timely delivery.
• Prepare responses to commission inquiries, prudency reviews, rate cases
  *** audits, and compliance‑related activities.
• Ensure reporting alignment with regulatory commitments, company policies, and approved project information.
• Maintain supporting documentation, audit trails, and reporting records.

• Gather, validate, and integrate project information from project controls, engineering, construction, contracts, procurement, finance, and other functional organizations.
• Develop regulatory filings, executive reporting, responses, and supporting narratives using information provided by project teams and subject matter experts.
• Ensure consistency, completeness, and alignment across regulatory reporting, executive reporting, project reporting, and business planning activities while identifying and resolving information gaps and reporting issues.

• Serve as a primary interface between project leadership, regulatory organizations, and key business stakeholders.
• Develop executive summaries, presentations, briefing materials, and formal business communications.
• Facilitate cross‑functional coordination to ensure timely and accurate responses to regulatory and executive information requests.
• Present information and…