Senior Project Controller - Team Coordinator
HybridBucharest, București, Romania
Job Summary
Coordinate and lead a team of approximately 8 Project Controls professionals across Business Intelligence, Reporting, Planning, Scheduling, and Cost Management disciplines. Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance, and technical support to ensure clarity of priorities, delivery expectations, and performance standards. Manage workload allocation, capacity planning, and resource prioritization while acting as the first point of escalation for delivery issues. Conduct regular performance and development conversations to support continuous professional growth and coach team members on technical capability and stakeholder management. Oversee quality of key deliverables through peer reviews and governance standards, then interface with Project Managers and portfolio leads to provide performance insights and data-driven recommendations. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, process standardization, and project audits to maintain compliance and optimize delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree mandatory in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline
- Minimum 5 years of applied Project Controls experience acquired within AECOM and/or external organizations
- Strong experience in at least one core Project Controls discipline, such as Planning/Scheduling, Cost Management, Business Intelligence, Reporting, Forecasting, or Performance Management
- Good working knowledge across multiple Project Controls disciplines, with the ability to understand dependencies between cost, schedule, reporting, forecasting, governance, and project performance
- Experience providing technical guidance, coaching, training, or informal leadership to colleagues or junior team members
- Experience working with Project Managers, stakeholders, or delivery teams to support reporting, decision-making, issue resolution, and project performance management
- Strong leadership potential, ownership, maturity, and the ability to develop others
- Strong understanding of Project Controls principles, processes, and best practices
- Strong knowledge of cost control, forecasting, budgeting, performance reporting, and project delivery governance
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to analyze, validate, structure, and present project data effectively
- Good understanding of project reporting cycles, data quality requirements, financial performance indicators, and stakeholder reporting needs
- Ability to review Project Controls outputs critically and identify inconsistencies, risks, gaps, or improvement opportunities
- Strong people leadership, team coordination, and coaching capability
- Ability to motivate, support, and develop team members with different experience levels and technical backgrounds
- Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to influence, build trust, and maintain strong working relationships across all organizational levels
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to clarify expectations, manage competing priorities, and communicate delivery risks effectively
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to balance multiple demands across people, projects, deadlines, and stakeholders
- High level of ownership, accountability, professionalism, and judgement
- Collaborative mindset, with a focus on knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and team development
- All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment
Desired Qualifications
- Professional certifications such as PMP, APM, PMI-SP, PSP, CCP, or equivalent
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