Project Analyst

Project Analyst

We are looking for a Project Analyst to support the Product Construction team by providing financial analysis, reporting, and governance support across project portfolios.

This role partners closely with Project Managers, Finance, Procurement, and leadership to maintain accurate financial data, monitor project health, and provide clear insights to support decision-making.

The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, financially fluent, and comfortable working across multiple systems and teams.

Responsibilities

• Support project financial planning, budget tracking, forecasting, variance analysis, and estimate-at-completion updates.
• Monitor actuals, commitments, purchase orders, invoices, labor spend, accruals, resource costs, and forecasted spend.
• Prepare financial reports, budget health summaries, reconciliations, and risk updates for Project Managers and leadership.
• Identify budget risks, data gaps, overruns, and reconciliation issues and escalate with clear recommendations.
• Build and maintain portfolio dashboards, scorecards, budget summaries, trackers, and reporting packages using Power BI, Excel, and related tools .
• Consolidate project, program, and system data into reliable reporting views and a consistent source of truth.
• Analyze trends in spending, forecasts, resources, project performance, and overall portfolio health.
• Translate complex or fragmented data into clear insights, decision points, and leadership-ready updates.
• Validate financial and project data across systems such as Oracle Fusion, JDE, Power BI, Excel, Workfront, Jira, and SharePoint .
• Maintain budget trackers, financial workbooks, project repositories, templates, and governance documentation.
• Support change requests, budget impact assessments, risk and issue tracking, dependencies, action items, and reporting cadences.
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and process efficiency.
• Partner with Project Managers, Program Managers, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and leadership to resolve financial and reporting issues.
• Support financial reviews, leadership presentations, project health reviews, and stakeholder follow-up.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Analytics, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field .
• 3–5 years of experience in project financials, portfolio administration, project controls, reporting, or financial analysis.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, lookups, data structuring, analysis, and validation.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost tracking, reconciliations, or financial reporting .
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, prioritization, and follow-up skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in PMO, portfolio governance, Mission Control, or enterprise project environments .
• Familiarity with Oracle Fusion, JDE, SAP, Workfront, Jira, SharePoint, Power BI , or similar systems.
• Exposure to CAPEX projects, capital requests, procurement, purchase orders, invoices, or financial reconciliations .
• Experience working across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and project delivery teams.