Senior Project Controls Manager

Senior Project Controls Manager Start designing tomorrow’s future!

We are seeking a commercially minded and strategic Senior Project Controls Manager to join our US Project Operations team. This role can be based remotely within the United States with hybrid flexibility (preferably near one of our eastern standard time zone office locations as listed).As a Senior Project Controls Manager, you will partner closely with Project Directors, Project Principals, Job Leaders, Discipline Leaders, Finance, Legal, and Project Operations colleagues to improve project financial performance, forecasting accuracy, commercial decision-making, and operational consistency across our business.

This is an excellent opportunity for a project controls, project finance, commercial management, or project operations professional with experience in architecture, engineering, construction, design, or another project-based professional services environment. You will bring deep expertise in Deltek Vantagepoint, strong financial acumen, and the ability to turn complex project data into practical business insights and actions.

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

Your next role

Join us and help shape the future of project operations within a global, multidisciplinary consultancy. Working with leaders across the business, you will provide forward-looking commercial insight, improve consistency of project controls practices, and help project teams make better decisions through meaningful data, systems expertise, and process improvement.

You will play a key role in strengthening project financial performance, supporting operational excellence, and driving improvements in reporting, forecasting, risk management, and commercial governance.

Your key duties

Partner with Project Directors, Project Principals, Job Leaders, and Discipline Leaders to review project financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support informed commercial decisions

Lead and support project and portfolio reviews focused on profitability, forecasting, fee performance, project health, contingency, invoicing, debt management, resourcing, and commercial risk Analyze project financial variances, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and escalate material concerns where appropriate

Serve as a subject matter expert for Deltek Vantagepoint, including project setup, planning, billing, reporting, forecasting, invoicing, and project finance workflows

Improve project data quality, reporting consistency, system utilization, and cross-functional collaboration between Project Operations, Finance, Legal, and project teams

Develop and enhance dashboards, reports, templates, trackers, and management review materials using Deltek Vantagepoint, Excel, Power BI, and related tools

Support the evolution of project reviews from retrospective reporting to proactive decision support focused on profit, risk, contingency, debt, invoicing, and resource planning

Build trusted relationships with project leaders and provide clear, practical guidance on financial performance and project controls

Coach and train project teams and Project Operations colleagues on forecasting, financial planning, invoicing, risk management, project controls, and effective use of project systems

Lead process improvement initiatives including workflow analysis, documentation, stakeholder engagement, implementation, and adoption

Identify opportunities to leverage automation,…