Overview
Skills
Job Details
3-5 years of experience forecasting. Preferably in a capital project management context.
Education in accounting or finance, or 10+ years of experience as an alternative.
Expert in MS Excel and PowerPoint. Experience using advanced Excel formulas, PowerBI and MS Power Automate automations preferrable.
Experienced in managing workload and time management given Day 1 10 will require a large time investment of the individual, knowing the remaining weeks in the month will be considerably lighter. We would expect the person to balance the overall time within the month.
Experience supporting an Agile or Scaled Agile organization is preferred.
Responsibilities
Manage 20+ project work orders (WOs) and $50M in capital investments
o Work with business process specialist (BPS) to ensure WO creation
o Work with BPS to put WOs in-service in timely and accurate manner
o Monitor prior year WOs for unusual or inadvertent charges that need to be reapplied elsewhere (Journal Entries)
o Manage labor transfers from one WO to another
o Manage accruals
o Manage confidence in spend and confidence in in-service dates
Monthly reforecast of project financials.
o Establish Cost Tracking using approved template
o Develop annual budgets (Cap and O&M) using Cost Tracking spreadsheet:
o Understand and communicate variances and spikes (monthly and YE) per PMO and Dig. Finance cadence
o Revise project budgets in alignment with PI and resource planning
Meet with Digital leaders to establish and update:
o Meaningful monthly reports to management regarding the budget, actuals and forecast
o Resource allocations
o Procurement matrix and forecast payments for purchase orders (POs)
o In-service dates for each work order.
Establish relationship with BPS and Digital Finance team. Collaborate closely.
Manage POs
o Ensure Purchase Orders are stood up by Sourcing
o Ensure all invoices have been submitted and paid
o Meet with vendors to ensure accurate and timely accruals
o Close POs and contracts
Manage project change requests (PCRs) for WO; change in budget or in service date.
Coordinate with Portfolio manager for budget increase/decrease via emerging demand process
Manage aspects of Time keeping
o Inform team of Time Recording requirements and Software Capitalization Policy
o Ensure TRIS pick list updated for FTEs (and others as appropriate)
o Complete TRIS Setup/Accounting Strings
Learn and utilize Ameren toolset:
o Expert in Excel, PowerPoint.
o Preference for experience with Oracle, Power Plan, PowerBI, Primavera
Bring to Ameren your own experiences, expertise, templates, best practices.
Commit to the continuous improvement of how Ameren manages capital project finances.
o Make recommendations
o Challenge the status quo