Program Controls Manager (Finance)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Program Controls Manager to be based out of our San Francisco, California office. This position within our Environmental Remediation West group will act as a Program Controls Manager, providing leadership and oversight to a client specific Program Controls team including strategic and technical guidance and maintaining program controls for large environmental projects in collaboration with the client and account teams.

The ideal candidate will possess leadership skills, have great attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to work independently, and will be capable of managing a high-performance team.

Role accountabilities:

• Provide leadership and oversight to the Program Controls team including strategic and technical guidance including experience reporting to executive-level leadership.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives (e.g., business process development) and tactical implementation (e.g., contract/invoice review and processing) to ensure compliance with program controls.
• Develop and maintain program controls strategies, tools, systems and standard operating procedures aligned to best practice.
• Establish cost control frameworks including budgets, forecasts, and contingency tracking; ensure proper documentation of change orders and budget adjustments.
• Oversee the maintenance of project dashboards and reporting tools; provide executive-level briefings and performance summaries on a recurring basis.
• Mentor junior staff, promote knowledge transfer, and foster a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, Project Management, Construction Management or related field
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in consulting
• Ability to collaborate across multiple levels of an organization.

Preferred

• Experience working for clients in the power and utility sector
• PMP, PgMP, CCP, PSP, or equivalent certifications are preferred.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $100576 - $165951. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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