Project Controller I

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Support project setup, including WBS structure, budgets, labor plans, billing rates, allocation codes, project dates, and task dates; confirm alignment with approved budgets, fees, contracts, and amendments.
• Help project managers maintain current estimates to complete, resource plans, staffing assumptions, and schedules.
• Review actual and scheduled costs for missing budgets, incorrect coding, unsupported charges, and other project exceptions; compare costs and forecasts with approved budgets.
• Monitor material changes in EAC, ETC, forecasted profit, labor hours, and project completion dates; prepare exception reports for monthly reviews.
• Monitor T&M–NTE and task-order projects for remaining authorization, forecasted cap dates, and potential overruns.
• Track subcontractor commitments, invoices, remaining forecasts, and completed but uninvoiced work.
• Support tracking of additional services, pending amendments, at-risk work, and work performed without authorization.
• Document forecast decisions and follow through on required updates and corrections.
• Assist with project dashboards, KPI reporting, data validation, and trend analysis.
• Maintain project controls logs, templates, work instructions, and supporting documentation; help improve standardized Project Controls and Unanet processes.
• Provide responsive support to project managers and internal stakeholders; escalate unresolved budget, forecast, coding, authorization, or contract-cap issues.
• Support additional project accounting functions as needed; tasks may change as the company grows.

Minimum Qualifications

• Three to five years of experience in project controls, project coordination, project finance, project accounting, PMO support, or a closely related project delivery function.
• Experience reviewing project budgets, actual costs, forecasts, schedules, or resource plans.
• Strong Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, filtering, and reconciliation of data from multiple sources.
• Ability to identify inconsistencies, investigate their causes, and communicate findings clearly.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Effective written and verbal communication and ability to collaborate with project managers, accountants, finance professionals, and operational leaders.
• Ability to learn and consistently apply project setup, forecasting, and reporting standards.
• Experience supporting fixed-fee/lump-sum, T&M, on-call, or task-order contracts.
• Experience with Unanet or another project-based ERP, accounting, scheduling, or resource-planning system.
• Experience with Power BI or other dashboard and reporting tools.
• Familiarity with project schedules, WBS development, resource planning, contract amendments, subcontractor commitments, and change management.
• Experience in engineering consulting, architecture, construction, environmental services, or another project-based professional-services environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working understanding of earned value management, including planned value, earned value, actual cost, CPI, SPI, ETC, EAC, and variance analysis.
• A college degree in Finance, Business, or Project Management is preferred; additional work experience may supplement degree requirements.

Core Competencies

• Analytical thinking, attention to detail, project financial awareness, data accuracy, and reconciliation.
• Forecasting and planning support, problem identification and follow-through, clear communication, and process discipline.
• Organization, prioritization, collaborative service, and continuous improvement.

Compensation

• The listed salary range is USD 90,000–105,000 per year.

Workplace

• The source location states Remote, US.