Sr. Project Control Officer/CyberSecurity
Are you ready to support high-impact cybersecurity projects through strong financial and project controls? Apply Now!
Working with one of our top financial clients, this role calls for a Sr. Project Control Officer/CyberSecurity to provide project coordination, financial oversight, reporting, and administrative support across strategic cybersecurity, operational resilience, and third-party governance initiatives. This contract offers exposure to forward-looking technology initiatives and an opportunity to develop toward a future Project Manager role while partnering closely with technology, business, and project management teams.
Pay rate range (CAD): $52.90/hr – $63.48/hr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, validate, and consolidate monthly project budget forecasts.
- Maintain accurate master spreadsheets and ensure consistency across reporting periods.
- Monitor project budgets, expenditures, forecasted costs, and overall financial performance.
- Conduct month-over-month variance analysis, identify trends, and provide insights into changes in spending.
- Assess budget utilisation and forecast future financial outcomes, risks, and opportunities.
- Determine whether projects are tracking over or under budget and support informed financial decision-making.
- Prepare financial summaries, project status reports, and analysis covering budgets, milestones, risks, and issues.
- Support Project Managers and Scrum Masters throughout the project management lifecycle.
- Maintain project plans, schedules, documentation, and project records in accordance with established delivery frameworks.
- Coordinate project meetings, prepare agendas, document decisions and action items, and follow up on outstanding deliverables.
- Track project progress and support the timely completion of milestones and deliverables.
- Assist with change management activities and maintain related documentation.
- Identify and escalate financial discrepancies, project risks, and issues in a timely manner.
- Build effective working relationships with stakeholders and contribute to process improvements.
Desired Skill-Set
- At least five years of experience as a Project Control Coordinator.
- At least five years of experience supporting project budgets and financial management.
- Experience with project financials, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost management.
- Advanced comfort working with numbers, financial data, and Microsoft Excel.
- Experience supporting project planning, reporting, scheduling, and documentation.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile.
- Experience using Microsoft Project or comparable project management tools.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, change-driven environment.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Collaborative approach, dependable work ethic, adaptability, patience, and commitment to supporting project teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Planview.
- Previous experience with FI.
- Exposure to cybersecurity, data security, operational resilience, or third-party governance initiatives.
BeachHead is an equal opportunity agency and employer. We advocate for our candidates and welcome applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, or physical or mental disability. BeachHead or our clients may use technology-enabled tools, including automation and artificial intelligence (AI), to support parts of the recruitment process such as resume screening, application management, and candidate matching. These tools assist our recruiters and our clients, and do not replace human decision-making. This job posting represents a current or anticipated vacancy. The position may be filled at any time, and the posting may be removed without notice once the role has been filled.