Project Controls Specialist III, Cost Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

The Work

This role sits inside the capital program at a single LACCD campus, reporting through the College Project Director and coordinating with the PMO. You own the cost picture for projects funded across multiple bond and funding sources. The day-to-day is reconciliation, forecasting, and keeping the financial data clean enough that leadership can make decisions from it.

You will spend most of your time in Proliance and Deltek Costpoint, building and validating budgets, processing change orders, task order requests, PBAs, and contract amendments, and running month-end reconciliation. When a cost variance shows up, you are the person who finds it, explains it, and recommends the correction before it becomes a problem at the program level.

This is a controls seat on a public education construction program, not a back-office accounting job. You sit close to the project teams and the scheduling group, and the quality of your forecasts affects what gets built and when.

What You'll Own

• Estimates to Complete (ETCs) across change order proposals, task order requests, vendor portal requests, and PBAs

• Monthly budget and cost reconciliation for month-end reporting accuracy

• Cost variance analysis, trend tracking, and corrective action recommendations

• Budget and expenditure review across multiple funding sources

• Processing of budget transfers, closeouts, contract requests, purchase requisitions, amendments, PBAs, and change orders into the cost systems

• Review and approval support for contractor and consultant payment applications

• Campus-specific financial, budget, and schedule reports for the CPD, CPLT, and PMO

• Serving as primary campus contact for College financial information requests

Requirements

What You Bring

• Several years carrying cost and project controls on an active construction program, where you owned the numbers rather than supported someone who did

• Hands-on production work in Proliance and Deltek Costpoint, not just familiarity

• A track record of catching variances early and being the person leadership trusts to explain why a number moved

• Comfort working budgets that draw from multiple funding sources with different rules and reporting requirements

• Advanced Excel work that you built and maintained, not inherited

• Experience across the full project lifecycle, so you understand how today's commitment becomes next quarter's forecast problem

Preferred

• Prior experience on a large California public capital program (K-12 or community college)

• Direct BuildLACCD or comparable bond program experience

• Earned value management on a live program

• Data-warehouse reporting experience supporting a large capital program

Benefits

Compensation

Salary range: $130,000 to $143,000, depending on experience.

Health, dental, and vision (low cost to employee). 401k. Three weeks PTO. ESOP at no cost to you.

Why MAAS

MAAS has spent nearly 40 years earning the trust of 50+ educational institutions across California, managing over $10B in projects. That track record means the work here is stable, funded, and consequential. You are not chasing the next contract.

As a MAAS employee, you are also an owner. The company is 100% employee-owned through an ESOP, a retirement benefit provided at no cost to you, on top of your salary. MAAS is a profitable, well-run organization and our share price has more than doubled since the plan's inception, with continued growth year over year. Your ownership stake builds the longer you stay, and ESOP participants nationally tend to accumulate 2.5x more in retirement savings than employees at non-ESOP companies.

In an industry not known for prioritizing culture, 96% of MAAS employees say it is a great place to work, and 100% say people genuinely care about each other. That is not a perk. It is how the company runs.

Ready to build something that lasts?

Apply today!