Senior Cost Controls Specialist/Cost Manager

JSG is seeking a Senior Cost Controls Specialist/Cost Manager for our client in Atlanta, GA. In this role, you’ll bring clarity and control to project financials—tracking performance against budget, strengthening forecast accuracy, and helping project teams make timely, informed decisions. You’ll be a key partner to project managers, discipline leads, and vendors, ensuring costs are recorded correctly, risks are visible early, and projects stay financially healthy from planning through closeout. Hybrid, must be local to Atlanta GA.

Pay $65/hour

Required Skills

• Proven ability to track and analyze project costs, including budgets, commitments, actuals, accruals, and forecasts
• Experience preparing and managing monthly accruals, ensuring accurate recording and coordination with project teams and vendors
• Ability to develop monthly forecasts and deliver clear variance explanations, including cost drivers, trends, risks, and corrective actions
• Strong collaboration skills to coordinate forecasting reviews and validate remaining work, commitments, and assumptions
• Hands-on experience creating and managing purchase requisitions and purchase orders, monitoring commitments, and validating invoices for accuracy and contract compliance
• Experience supporting change orders and funding requests (evaluation and processing)
• Ability to support capital project closeout, including final cost reporting, reconciliation of commitments, and assisting with asset placement into service
• Intermediate to advanced Excel proficiency
• Clear written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience supporting energy sector projects
• Exposure to risk management and project controls environments

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in project controls and/or cost management

Johnson Service Group, Inc. (JSG) is a North American leader in the staffing and consulting services industry, with over 35 years of experience investing in people and companies.

Johnson Service Group (JSG) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. JSG provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

JSG offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance options, short-term disability, 401(k), weekly pay, and more. Johnson Service Group (JSG) is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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