Senior Financial Business Analyst to help support and customize financial tools (EcoSys/Primavera P6) with our Energy client (Req 21030)
Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Jan 23, 2023
Job End Date: Jan 26, 2024
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 126601
Location: Calgary, Edmonton
Our client is seeking a Senior Financial Business Analyst to help support and customize financial tools (EcoSys/Primavera P6)
Calgary-based client. Must be locted in Calgary. Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
Must have's:
Nice to have's:
The Story behind the need:
A day in the life of the Financial Business Analyst:
Calgary-based client. Must be locted in Calgary. Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
Must have's:
- 10+ years of Business Analyst experience with a focus on financial tools, including planning, budgeting, analysis and forecasting (WBS, accoutning principles and earned value management)
- Experience with either or both EcoSys/Primavera P6 administration, configuration, and implementation
- Experience with oil and gas financial projects
- Stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders.
Nice to have's:
- Ability to effectively manage and prioritize workload in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and resolve issues in a timely manner
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in written form. This includes the ability to effectively interact with peers, internal and external stakeholders. Strong written communications abilities, including good spelling and grammar are essential for this position
- Possess an aptitude for successfully building relationships with project staff, internal stakeholders, and service providers
- PMP/ PMI-SP certification with PMI and/or PSP certification with AACE International
- An understanding of the P6/EcoSys application platform and database platform
- Experience in configuring custom interfaces with the EcoSys API, knowledge of EcoSys architecture and system implementation and database management
The Story behind the need:
- The ideal candidate will be focused on delivering consistent and predictable cost management across a diverse and sometimes complex project portfolio.
- Candidates will be working collaboratively with project teams in the development, management, updating and reporting of project costs throughout the project lifecycle as a corner stone of driving business value
A day in the life of the Financial Business Analyst:
- Develop and maintain best in class standards and guidelines related to budgets, commitments, incurred costs, expenditures and forecasts while integrating with other project controls processes and tools for use by project teams
- Supporting a team of project controls analysts and specialists responsible for developing and achieving specific deliverables for multiple projects in accordance with projects’ cost and earned value management processes
- Ensuring each project team leverages our client's-sanctioned cost and earned value processes in the execution of their project management activities
- Interpreting project-specific business requirements still align with the project standards and guidelines, and ensuring project management standards and guidelines are understood by project teams
- Assigning priorities to complex, multiple, competing projects by effectively prioritizing work assignments while managing stakeholder expectations
- Driving for superior organizational results by understanding the industry, the company’s established business metrics, and how they relate to the objectives of the organization
- Providing technical advice and expertise related to Project Controls Management tools including the installation and maintenance of EcoSys
