Senior Commercial Project Manager - Rail Infrastructure

We are looking for a Senior Commercial Project Manager for our Rail Infrastructure business in New York City, NY, to support an exciting new project. You will be fully responsible for the commercial and financial management through the project execution as you collaborate with internal and external partners.

Our Culture:

We live and foster an ownership culture in which every employee takes personal responsibility for our company's success. We apply lean principles to improve our processes and customers' experience continually. We trust and empower our employees to act as owners, make decisions and innovate to succeed. We communicate openly and honestly to learn from our failures and celebrate our successes. We recognize individual and team achievements frequently. We invest in our team members, offering a wide variety of internal and external development opportunities.

What your day-to-day will look like:

• Managing projects by creating bookings, setting up the WBS structure, budget, and monitoring financial status based on the planned delivery schedule
• Acting as a customer interface to align on commercially driven aspects such as payments, claims, etc.
• Perform financial planning, forecasting, controlling, reconciliation of project cash flow and routine deviation analysis using SAP
• Implement and drive measures to use opportunities to improve project performance (claims management and variation management)
• Monitor and communicate trends, assess implications, and develop practical strategies.
• Work with cross-functional teams (Project Managers, Legal, Operations, Procurement, Engineering, HR, etc.) to help them manage their financial goals and drive better efficiency and productivity on bids, proposals, and ongoing projects.
• Recommend, implement, and report on benchmarks for measuring financial and operating performance
• Assist in the production and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports to determine key drivers impacting the company's performance.
• Working in an agile entrepreneur’s environment, take the given ownership, work with the team closely and bring the assigned tasks and projects to success
• Reporting to and aligning with senior management to address the project’s status and overall performance

To thrive in this role, you have:

• Proven experience with financial planning, accounting, and finance
• Bachelor's degree required, with a major in Finance, Economics, Business or Accounting preferred; CPA, MBA or MS a plus
• Siemens Commercial Project Management Certification
• Exposure to general accounting and cost accounting are preferred.
• Advanced analytical abilities, financial modeling, and strong Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of ERP systems (SAP a plus)
• Strong business modeling skills
• Ability to provide strategic insight through the use of financial metrics
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization
• Strong sense of acting as a team- inside and outside of the project
• A high sense of urgency, able to independently prioritize, and handle challenging deadlines

We aim to hire top talent and equip them with the opportunity to make top dollar. Can you see yourself learning, growing, and succeeding here? If so, we'd like to meet you!

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