Project Controls Reporting Analyst
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £48,000 to £58,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Location: | North London, London, E17 7JT |
| Company: | Randstad CPE |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | AT/PCCM/TW_1748937111 |
Summary
Are you ready to drive project success through unparalleled data insights? Our client, a leader in large-scale infrastructure projects, is seeking a Project Controls Reporting Analyst to join their dynamic team. This role is critical for enabling effective project delivery by providing precise and actionable intelligence on cost, schedule, risk, and key performance indicators. If you're a data wizard with a background in engineering, construction, or infrastructure, eager to ensure robust project governance and transparency, we want to hear from you.
Core Responsibilities:As a Performance Insights Analyst, you will be instrumental in:
- Data Aggregation & Interpretation: Skillfully gathering, analyzing, and presenting extensive project data with clarity and impact.
- Reporting & Dashboard Creation: Producing comprehensive progress reports, intuitive dashboards, and detailed variance analyses for senior stakeholders.
- Quality Assurance: Guaranteeing all reporting outputs consistently meet rigorous quality standards, strict deadlines, and precise stakeholder requirements.
- Diverse Data Sourcing: Collecting information from various project control systems, diverse teams, and different disciplines.
- Visualization Expertise: Developing and maintaining compelling data dashboards using tools such as Power BI and Microsoft Excel's advanced functionalities.
- Effective Communication: Presenting complex data in a clear, concise, and visually engaging format to optimize stakeholder understanding.
- Data Integrity: Conducting thorough data validation and consistency checks as a mandatory step before any data inclusion in reports.
- Metric Tracking: Monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs) and critical project health metrics, including CPI, SPI, and Earned Value.
- Risk & Trend Identification: Proactively highlighting significant variances, emerging trends, and potential risks or issues in all reporting.
- Review Support: Providing essential reporting inputs for crucial project reviews, steering committee meetings, and audit processes.
- Governance Adherence: Supporting the maintenance of strict compliance with project governance standards and protocols.
- Team Collaboration: Liaising closely with planning, cost, risk, and delivery teams to ensure perfect alignment between reported data and actual project performance.
- Central Data Hub: Acting as the primary point of contact for all project data and reporting-related queries.
- Documentation Control: Maintaining meticulous, up-to-date reporting documentation, clear data definitions, and robust version control.
- Data Security: Ensuring all project data is securely stored and readily retrievable for any audits or reviews.
- Academic Foundation: A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a relevant discipline.
- Software Mastery: Exceptional proficiency in Microsoft Excel, encompassing advanced functions (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, conditional formatting), and advanced capabilities in Power BI, are critical for this role.
- Project Scheduling Tools: Practical working knowledge of P6 (Primavera).
- Performance Measurement: A strong understanding of Earned Value Management (EVM), KPIs, and principles of cost/time forecasting, including Target Cost.
- Core Competencies: Superior mathematical skills, meticulous attention to detail, and robust analytical thinking abilities.
- Industry Context: Valuable knowledge of the Water and Construction business lines.
- Annual Salary: £44,500 - £55,500
- Performance-Based Bonus: An 8% annual bonus
- Pension Contributions: Employee and employer contributions each at 4%.
- Healthcare: Bupa private healthcare
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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