Project Analyst

About the role

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. Ideal candidates are analytical, detail-oriented, financially fluent, and comfortable working across systems, teams, and ambiguity.

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.
• Support change requests, budget impact assessments, risk and issue tracking, dependencies, action items, and reporting cadences.
• Improve data quality, reporting accuracy, repeatability, and audit readiness through practical process improvements.
• 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.

Candidate Profile

Highly organized, accurate, and comfortable working with financial detail. Able to turn ambiguous inputs into structured analysis, reporting, and follow-up actions. Builds trust with Project Managers by making financial information easier to understand and act on. Communicates clearly across Finance, technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership. Balances hands-on detail with a portfolio-level view of trends, risks, and decisions.