Project Analyst

Position Overview

The Project Analyst supports the Product Construction team by bringing financial discipline, reporting consistency, and governance structure to project portfolios. This role partners with Project Managers, Finance, Procurement, and leadership to maintain accurate financial data, monitor portfolio health, and deliver clear insights that support timely decisions.

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 callouts for Project Managers and leadership.
• Identify budget risks, data gaps, overruns, and reconciliation issues; 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 usable source of truth.
• Analyze trends in spend, forecasts, resources, project performance, and portfolio health.
• Translate fragmented data into concise insights, decision points, and leadership-ready updates.
• Validate financial and project data across Oracle Fusion, JDE, Power BI, Excel, Workfront, Jira, SharePoint, and related systems.
• Maintain budget trackers, financial workbooks, project repositories, templates, and governance documentation.
• Serve as a financial and governance support partner for Project Managers across active portfolios.
• Partner with Program Managers, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and leadership to resolve financial and reporting issues.
• Gather, reconcile, and validate inputs across teams and systems with varying levels of data maturity.
• 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 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 tools.
• 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.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.