Our large Oil & Gas industry client is seeking a Senior Project Controls Analyst to own the governance, forecasting, and variance analysis of pipeline operations costs and expenses .

Duration: 6-month initial contract (robust possibility of extension) Working model: Full-time onsite within downtown Calgary Must-Haves: 10+ years' of Project Controls experience in sustaining both project and operational environments Strong experience with SAP for financial reporting, analysis and tracking Demonstrated experience with pipeline operations and operating expenses Experience with Forecasting and Variance Analysis (robust Finance background) Ability to build dashboards, executive-level reporting, and work with large/complex datasets Nice-to-Haves: Eco

Sys experience Experience within the Pipeline or Midstream Energy Industry Key Responsibilities: Partner with supervisors and leaders across Operations to develop and maintain accurate forecasts for operating cost centres and projects.

Standardize forecasting methods, assumptions, and reporting tools.

Identify forecasting capability gaps and improve overall forecasting maturity.

Provide early warning of emerging overruns, underspend, or cost risks so mitigation actions can be taken before month-end or year-end surprises occur.

Perform detailed monthly analysis of complex SAP and financial data.





Separate real cost improvements from timing differences, deferred work, accounting impacts, and cost transfers.

Identify meaningful trends, risks, and opportunities hidden within large and often opaque datasets.

Quantify expected versus realized benefits from initiatives such as contractor optimization, maintenance optimization, outage optimization, fleet optimization, and other Cost Leadership initiatives.

Ensure savings are sustainable, measurable, and not simply offset elsewhere in the business.

Analyze cost performance by cost centre, project, asset, initiative, and workstream.

Help leadership understand whether variances are driven by productivity improvements, scope changes, contractor performance, deferred work, or true overspend.

Enable fact-based decision making rather than relying on fragmented reports.

Link SAP financial information on projects back to the originally approved scope, budget, and business case.

Improve visibility into budget performance where current SAP reporting does not adequately connect scope, budget, and actual costs.

Support change control, project performance tracking, cost reporting, and portfolio oversight.

Support scorecards, KPI reporting, and executive decision-making.

📌 Senior Project Controls Analyst to own the governance, forecasting, and variance analysis of pipeline operations costs and expenses (Calgary)
🏢 S.i. Systems
📍 Calgary