Project Operations Specialist

Project Operations Specialist### Project Operations Specialist Apply:
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** What this job involves:
** As a Project Operations Specialist, you will serve as the single point of accountability for the financial and administrative execution of projects in PMWeb for our Financial Services client across multiple projects with a focus in Latin America (LATAM). You will process budgets, commitments, change orders, and invoices from initiation through closeout, manage multi-currency transactions, FX rates, and country-specific tax treatments, and report portfolio performance to JLL leadership and the client.

You will be a senior, day-to-day contact for client stakeholders, and you will keep data accurate and reporting reliable across the account. You will also help the Project Coordinator team work more efficiently through the tools, templates, and guidance you build.
** Your day-to-day tasks will include:
*** Serving as the day-to-day financial and administrative contact for the client on NAMR and LATAM projects: leading meetings, agendas, and action items, presenting portfolio status, and escalating issues to client stakeholders
* Owning end-to-end financial transaction processing in PMWeb, including budgets, commitments, change orders, and progress invoices, from initiation through closeout
* Managing multi-currency transactions in PMWeb, applying approved FX rates and confirming the correct currency on every commitment, change order, and invoice
* Applying country-specific tax treatments to commitments, change orders, and invoices, and escalating tax questions to the appropriate finance contacts before submission
* Tracking and resolving vendor invoice and payment issues, including currency, tax, and remit-to discrepancies, and escalating stuck or rejected transactions to the responsible owner
* Creating, reviewing, and routing commitments and change orders for vendor signature, verifying accuracy of legal entity, values, currency, tax treatment, and remit-to details before submission
* Conducting regular data reviews of PMWeb records to catch discrepancies before they reach the client, and correcting record gaps through the Data Integrity Dashboard
* Producing and maintaining standard operational reports and dashboards, including Closeout Tracker, Stales Tracker, Workflow Report, Milestone Tracker, and Aging Report, to drive follow-up action and give internal and client stakeholders clear visibility
* Onboarding incoming team members and training them on financial workflows, multi-currency and tax handling, and PMWeb
* Building and refining tools, templates, and processes that make day-to-day work easier for the Project Coordinator team
* Supporting project closeout activities and ensuring compliance with client 90-day closeout requirements
** Desired experience and technical skills:
**** Requirements:
*** 5+ years of experience in project financial administration, project coordination, or project controls in a construction or corporate real estate environment, including budgets, commitments, change orders, and invoices from initiation through closeout
* Experience supporting clients in the…