Lead Project Cost Control Specialist

The Lead Project Cost Control partners with Lumen business stakeholders to drive understanding of business performance including the financial results achieved, the outcomes of key initiatives and investments, and opportunities for the business to take actions to improve financial outcomes. This role is expected to be hands-on in partnering with business leadership and delivering insightful analysis and reporting. This will require a strong analytical, reporting and business partnering mindset to drive performance and communicate risks and opportunities through insightful analysis. The role also collaborates with Finance colleagues and supports teammates in furthering their skills. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of Lumen while expanding your skillsets and impact.

* Proactively conduct rigorous and innovative financial analysis to generate actionable insights. Leverage deep knowledge of the business and the drivers of business performance, and utilize analytical tools with innovative thinking to drive understanding of Lumen's financial performance and anticipate and highlight the business decisions needed to achieve targeted portfolio results
* Understand the key trends and business levers, both forward looking and historical to drive decision-making. Analyze results and explain variance to targets. Build insightful reporting to monitor key financial metrics and drivers for use in modeling and to build accurate financial projections. Streamline our existing reporting through tools such as Excel, Power BI and Power Query.
* Drive strong partnerships with business stakeholders. Build rapport with your business partners by understanding their business performance, and ensure stakeholders' focus on the levers and opportunities that will drive results. Communicate effectively to ensure opportunities and risks are understood and addressed in a proactive manner.
* Collaborate proactively across multiple Lumen finance and business teams to share insights, connect the dots, and drive outcomes.
* Partner with Custom Networks Regional Teams and Finance to Analysis to establish and track the monthly/annual Network Capital spending, forecast, accrual and provide insights on risks and issues
* Partner with Custom Networks Regional Teams and Finance to Analysis to establish and track the monthly/annual Network Opex spending, forecast, accrual and provide insights on risks and issues
* Track and Monitor Customer Networks Resources Capital and Opex spending
* Support the Regional Teams with creating Purchase Requisition aligning with the deployment requirements
* Track and report on Cost per unit for various build types and compare against the baseline estimates and report variances
* Create, forecast, report, annual/monthly savings forecast for network expenditures
* Recode management, establish and document process for the related role. Identify on-going process improvements
* Successfully validate any prior period adjustments recommended by accounting and help in ensuring the reconciliation of the actuals monthly are proper

* Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance or similar field, or equivalent experience
* 6+ years of pertinent experience in the technology (or similar) industry
* Skilled at financial data analytics and modeling; savvy in solving complicated data and analytical challenges; curious and self-directed
* Demonstrated thought leadership that drives value creation for the business
* Effective communicator; effective at building stakeholder relationships; clearly communicates steps needed to achieve results
* Self-motivated. Manages and prioritizes multiple deadlines and deliverables. Attention to detail.
* Manages multiple projects simultaneously meeting all deadlines

Preferred Requirements
* Experience as a Finance business partner in the technology industry
* Skilled with advanced Microsoft Excel functionality plus other analytical tools (e.g., Power Query, Power BI, SAP, and/or SQL)

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The starting salary for this role differs based on the employee's primary work location. Employees typically do not start at the top of the range, though compensation depends on each individual's qualifications.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$80510 - $107340 in these states: AR, ID, KY, LA, ME, MS, NE, SC, and SD.
$84740 - $112980 in these states: AZ, AL, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, MO, MT, NM, ND, OH, OK, PA, TN, UT, VT, WV, WI, and WY.
$88980 - $118630 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NV, NH, NC, OR, and RI.
$93210 - $124280 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DE, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

As with the pay range variety that's based on the region of a country, specific offers are determined by various factors such as experience, education, skills, certifications and other business needs.