Project Analyst

Role overview

Essential responsibilities

• Assist with bid reviews of cost assumptions, revenue recognition, cash flow, payment milestones, contingencies, and financial risks.
• Review project financial records, transactions, forecasts, commitments, accruals, and documentation for accuracy, completeness, and control compliance.
• Investigate cost, revenue, margin, cash-flow, and schedule variances; reconcile project actuals, commitments, accruals, progress, and scope against budgets and forecasts.
• Monitor indicators, exception reports, trends, and risk thresholds; challenge forecast assumptions and explain variance effects on project finances and billing.
• Document findings and audit trails, recommend corrective actions and control improvements, track actions, and escalate significant anomalies and risks.
• Maintain audit-ready project files and validate contract values, billing schedules, milestone evidence, and customer requirements to support invoicing.
• Run weekly and monthly project reports, reconcile data, collaborate across functions, and prepare management dashboards and written analyses.
• Support project closeout by reconciling final costs and revenue, resolving open commitments and billing, preparing adjustments, and documenting lessons learned.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business Management, Operations Management, Project Management, Psychology, or Human Resources from an accredited university; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Must pass a background check and obtain a TWIC credential for port access.

Desired skills

• Professional AI knowledge and usage are desired.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft is desired.

Working conditions

• Work is almost exclusively indoors during the day, with occasional work at night.
• There may be occasional exposure to airborne workplace dust; the work surface is stable and flat.

Benefits

• Benefits may include health and wellness, mental health, retirement savings, life and disability coverage, paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and an employee assistance program.