Project Controls Analyst

Job Description

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The role of Project Controls Analyst involves supporting the delivery of key projects through effective planning, monitoring, reporting and analytics. This is a permanent role, and would require candidates to be on-site 3 days per week in East London

Client Details

Our client is a Utilities business. This is a permanent role, and would require candidates to be on-site 3 days per week in East London

Description

Project Controls, Governance & Ways of Working

• Support adherence to the company's delivery governance framework, lifecycle, phase-gates, mandatory artefacts, controls standards, and approvals.
• Ensure controls processes for schedule, cost, risk, issues, changes, and reporting are consistently applied across all projects.
• Assist Project Managers in preparing high-quality governance materials and decision-ready information.

Planning, Scheduling & Baseline Management

• Develop, maintain, and quality-check project schedules aligned to scope, dependencies, milestones, and resource plans.
• Track progress, analyse variances, and provide timely early-warning indicators.
• Support integrated planning across the programme, ensuring alignment to the company's project lifecycle and stage-gate controls.

Cost Management & Financial Controls

• Support development and maintenance of cost baselines, budgets, and forecasts.
• Track actuals vs. budget, validate variances, and collaborate with Finance to ensure alignment and accuracy.
• Support period-end reporting including accruals, commitments, and approved changes.

Risk, Issue & Change Control

• Maintain project risk and issue logs ensuring mitigations, owners, and due dates are current and effective.
• Administer change control processes and support impact assessments on scope, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Escalate emerging risks and deviations through Project Services and governance forums.

Reporting, Analytics & Data Quality

• Produce periodical project reporting packs, dashboards, KPIs, and performance insights.
• Ensure data accuracy across schedules, costs, risks, milestones, and change logs.
• Develop high-quality analytics to support trend analysis, forecasting, governance reviews, and executive reporting.
• Champion improvements in data quality, document control, and audit-readiness across Project Services.

Cross-Portfolio Delivery Support

• Use and enhance PPM tools to improve accuracy, automation, and reporting speed.
• Support the continuous improvement of controls processes, templates, dashboards, and governance routines.
• Participate in lessons-learned reviews and help embed improvement actions across Project Services.

Profile

Technical Skills

• Strong working knowledge of project controls disciplines (schedule, cost, risk, change, reporting, and governance).
• Strong analytical capability with experience in Power Platform, Power BI (preferred) or similar reporting tools.
• High accuracy in data handling, documentation, and numerical analysis.
• Familiarity with PMO/controls standards in capital, operational, or transformation environments.
• Ideally, proficiency in scheduling tools (MS Project; Primavera desirable).

Soft Skills

• Structured thinker with strong analytical/problem-solving skills; resilient under ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Structured, analytical thinker with strong attention to detail.
• Able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks. xwzovoh
• Confident collaborating across matrixed teams within Project Delivery, Controls, Commercial, and Operations.

Job Offer

A competitive salary and benefits package, as well as a hybrid model (3 days per week on-site)