Project Controls Analyst

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.