IT Project Coordinator II

Peak Performers has partnered with a national utility company to assist in their search for a remote IT Project Coordinator II. In this position, you will be responsible for partnering with Finance Business Partners (FBPs) and Technology Value Stream Leads to convert real-time agile delivery metrics and project milestones into highly accurate financial forecasts.

Major duties

• Track Leading Indicators: Monitor and validate the stream’s Earned Delivery Indicator (EDI), tracking Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI) metrics.
• Audit Tool Inputs: Partner with product owners and Scrum masters to ensure developer velocity, story points, and milestone updates in Jira/Azure DevOps/Clarity accurately reflect physical progress.
• Flag Early Warnings: Identify operational delivery slippage or sprint velocity drops early, proactively escalating these trends to the FBP before they create budget overruns.

• Maintain Financial Data: Act as the primary operator for inputting, updating, and adjusting monthly rolling forecasts in Apptio.
• Govern Capitalization Metrics: Apply labor tracking methodologies to classify internal software development costs as CapEx or OpEx, ensuring software capitalization matches engineering output.
• Process Vendor Lifecycles: Reconcile contractor timesheets, specialized consultant statements of work (SOWs), and monthly third-party invoices against achieved milestones prior to payment authorization.

• Partner with FBPs: Co-author the monthly value stream forecast with assigned FBPs, integrating EDI metrics to calculate true Estimates at Completion (EAC).
• Secure Accuracy Limits: Drive transactional precision to maintain a rolling 90-day value stream forecast variance within the target ±3% threshold.
• Build Month-End Accruals: Generate precise month-end accounting accruals by matching physical vendor milestones against open Purchase Orders (POs) and corporate general ledgers.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Project Management, Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related field.

• 2 to 4 years of experience working as a project coordinator, PMO analyst, or financial coordinator within an enterprise technology or corporate finance environment.

• Practical experience tracking project deliverables via Jira, Azure DevOps, Clarity, or alternative PPM software.

• Comfort working with budgets, tracking financial milestones, and managing Excel spreadsheets. Prior experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) or Agile velocity models is a plus.
  Competencies

• Willingness and capability to complete intensive upskilling on IBM Apptio Planning and Technology Business Management (TBM) logic within the first 60 days.

• Ability to comfortably engage with engineering teams on technical delivery details while summarizing the resulting cost impacts for finance specialists.

• High standard of accuracy when handling large data sheets, system records, and multi-million dollar vendor statements of work.

Exciting Opportunity Details

• Rate: $41.38/hour

• W2 Contract

• Worksite Location: Remote 

• Must work in EST timezone but may live in CST 

• Contract Length: 1 Year

The Peak Performers difference

• Excellent medical health, dental & vision insurance at 60 days

• Our employees may choose to participate in a 403(b) retirement plan

• Qualified applicants with chronic medical conditions and/or disabilities receive priority placement

• We pay weekly through direct deposit

• In business since 1994 and thousands of job placements

All employment offers are contingent on the successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws.

Applicants for employment with Peak Performers must possess work authorization that does not require sponsorship for a visa now or in the future.
 
Peak Performers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applicants without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Peak Performers does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.

#LI-Remote