Capital Project Manager

Job 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, PowerPlan, 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
o Provide ideas from past experience or industry leading ideas

Required Skills:

• 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.