Project Financial Analyst
Role Overview
The Project Financial Analyst supports the financial health and profitability of construction projects for a subcontractor.
The position tracks costs, budgets, forecasts, and reporting to identify variances early and provide financial insight to project stakeholders.
Key Skills for This Role
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About Divcon
Divcon delivers nationwide integrated automation solutions for HVAC, lighting, power monitoring, and mission-critical systems.
Its technologies include Allen-Bradley PLCs, Ignition SCADA, and Delta DDC systems.
About the role
The Project Financial Analyst supports the financial health and profitability of construction projects for a subcontractor.
The position tracks costs, budgets, forecasts, and reporting to identify variances early and provide financial insight to project stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- Assist with project budgets, cost forecasts, and financial plans during bidding, pre-construction, and active execution.
- Monitor expenditures against budgets, analyze weekly cost variances, explain them, and work with project teams on mitigation plans.
- Prepare cost-to-complete forecasts, earned value analyses, profitability summaries, variance reports, cash flow projections, and other metrics.
- Gather cost and progress data with project and field teams, understand cost drivers, validate completed work, and track finances accurately.
- Review vendor and subcontractor invoices and outgoing billings for consistency with contract terms, change orders, retainage, and budgets.
- Maintain cost databases, change-order logs, budget revisions, lien-waiver records, and financial models in audit-ready condition.
- Identify and help implement improvements to job-costing, reporting, and financial workflows.
- Assist with closeout reconciliations, profitability analysis, and lessons learned; perform other assigned finance-team duties.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, construction management, business administration, or a related field is required.
- Advanced Excel proficiency is required, including financial modeling, pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and data analysis functions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, organization, time management, communication, and attention to detail are required.
- Two or more years of project financial analysis, cost control, project accounting, or related analytical experience are required; construction or project-based experience is preferred.
- Experience with multiple concurrent projects and producing accurate financial reports is expected.
- Construction-specific software such as Sage 300, Viewpoint, Procore, Foundation, or similar systems is highly desirable.
- Construction practices such as job costing, change orders, progress billing, retainage, lien waivers, and certified payroll are strongly preferred.
- Exposure to budget-versus-actual analysis, cost-to-complete forecasting, variance reporting, or earned value management is highly desirable.
Physical requirements
The description states that the role involves sitting for extended periods, typically 6–8 hours per day, while performing computer work. The supplied description ends mid-section.
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