Cost Controls Specialist
Job Description
This Opportunity
WSP is seeking a Cost Controls Specialist to join their Project Controls team. This individual can sit in our WSP locations in either South Jordan UT or Reno NV.
Your Impact
Maintain the project’s cost management system, tracking commitments, incurred costs, actuals, and accruals against the control budget.
Process budget transfers and approved changes, ensuring timely and accurate updates to the cost baseline.
Maintain the contingency drawdown log and support contingency management reporting.
Validate invoices and vendor cost data against purchase orders and contracts prior to approval.
Prepare monthly cost reports with variance analysis at the work package and project level.
Develop and maintain cost forecasts in coordination with discipline leads and support estimate-at-completion (EAC) reviews.
Ensure cost data is correctly coded and structured to integrate cleanly with the schedule and project reporting dashboards.
Support timely month-end close processes, ensuring cost data accuracy and auditability.
Collaborate with the scheduler and project leadership to align cost and schedule performance metrics under an earned value management (EVM) framework.
Who You Are
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Finance, or a related field or equivalent; AACE CCP/CEP or equivalent certification is a plus.
5–7 years of cost controls experience on large-scale mining, heavy civil, or EPCM projects.
Demonstrated experience tracking commitments, accruals, and forecasts using structured cost management systems.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for cost modeling and variance analysis; experience with Power BI or equivalent reporting tools preferred.
PMIS: Familiarity with platforms such as Oracle Primavera Unifier, Procore, e-Builder, or similar cost management systems.
Strong understanding of invoice validation processes, purchase order management, and contract cost structures.
Experience with earned value management (EVM) methodologies and integration of cost data with scheduling systems.
Highly detail-oriented with a strong commitment to data accuracy and auditability.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $110,000-120,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.