Project Controls Analytics Consultant

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Our AECOM Controls Team is a highly regarded, award-winning group within our Infrastructure & PMO Operating Unit. We work with both public and private sector clients in the UK and globally, supporting areas including Cost, Risk, Planning, and Controls. Our focus is on providing cutting-edge Controls Analytics solutions that empower clients to make data-driven decisions for managing project controls and overall performance effectively.

The team brings advanced analytics and insights across project controls functions, helping clients implement and optimise their processes to manage project risks, schedule performance, and financial health. Leveraging emerging technologies and data-driven strategies, we provide market solutions for clients, ensuring they have a robust basis for informed decision-making.

The Opportunity: Due to continued growth, we are looking for a proactive and analytical Consultant to join our Controls Analytics team. This role is suited to someone with 2–3 years’ experience in analytics, project controls, PMO or a related field, who is looking to further develop their career in a specialist and growing area. You will work on major infrastructure projects, helping to deliver practical analytics solutions that improve performance visibility across cost, schedule and risk.

Role Overview: The Controls Analytics Consultant will support the delivery of analytics and performance insights across major infrastructure projects. Working closely with project managers, risk specialists, planners and commercial teams, the role will help improve visibility of project performance and support informed decision-making. The consultant will contribute to the development of practical analytics solutions across cost, schedule and risk, while continuing to build their technical and project controls capability.

Here's What You'll Do

Controls Analytics & Reporting:

• Support the development and maintenance of dashboards and reports that provide insight into project and programme performance across PMO functions.
• Develop and monitor key project performance indicators, identifying trends, deviations and opportunities for improvement.
• Present clear and actionable insights to stakeholders to support effective project governance and decision-making.

Data Modelling & Analysis:

• Support the development of analytical models and reporting approaches to assess potential project outcomes based on current data and trends.

Risk and Performance Management

• Work with risk and project controls teams to support the use of data-led insights within the wider controls process.
• Contribute to forecasting, performance analysis and risk-informed reporting to help provide a holistic view of project performance.
• Exposure to quantitative risk analysis approaches, including QSRA and QCRA, would be beneficial.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Work closely with project teams and senior colleagues to understand requirements, explore desired outcomes and support the delivery of tailored analytics solutions.
• Communicate analytics insights and recommendations in a clear and accessible manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Compliance & Governance:

• Support the application of controls analytics methodologies and practices in line with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain awareness of developments in analytics tools, techniques, associated technologies and project controls best practice.

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Here’s what we’re looking for

Analytics & Data Skills:

• Experience using Power BI, Excel or similar tools to analyse data and produce clear reporting outputs.
• Ability to work with data from multiple sources and translate it into practical, useful insights.
• Exposure to SQL, Python or data modelling techniques would be advantageous, but is not essential.

Problem Solving & Insight Generation:

• Strong ability to interpret data sets, identify issues and generate practical insights.
• Good analytical problem-solving skills, with attention to detail in monitoring, reporting and decision support.

Communication & Presentation:

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey insights and analytics results clearly through presentations and reporting.

Project Controls Knowledge:

• Some understanding of project controls disciplines such as cost, schedule, risk or performance reporting.
• Awareness of concepts such as forecasting, variance analysis and earned value would be beneficial.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Engineering, Project Controls, Project Management, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Working towards or holding a relevant professional certification (e.g. AACE, APM or similar) would be beneficial.
• Around 2–3 years’ experience in analytics, project controls, PMO, finance, engineering, or a related field.
• Experience working with project, operational or performance data in infrastructure, construction, energy or consultancy environments is desirable.
• Exposure to reporting, dashboarding, data analysis or controls-related activities on projects or programmes would be beneficial.
• Experience with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar, along with strong Excel capability.
• Exposure to cost or schedule analytics tools, statistical analysis or data modelling techniques would be beneficial.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to data-led improvements in project controls, working on impactful projects with a team of talented professionals. It is an excellent opportunity to further develop your analytics and project controls capability while helping clients improve how they manage and optimise project performance.

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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