Construction Project Controls Analyst

Exp Us Services; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 63,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Long-Term Disability

Short-Term Disability

Life Insurance

Wellness reimbursement

Pre-tax transportation

Job summary

Exp Federal is seeking a Project Controls Assistant to support the Construction and Mission Support Group across multiple offices, including Chicago, Atlanta, and Chantilly. This full-time role focuses on budgeting, cost tracking, and financial reporting to ensure projects stay within approved budgets.

The ideal candidate has a degree in finance or related field and 3–5 years of experience in project budgeting and cost management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, construction management, project management, or a related field.
• Three to five years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing or maintaining project budgets, tracking costs, preparing forecasts, and analyzing budget-to-actual variances.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and reporting cycles with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to work near the Chicago, Atlanta, or Chantilly office.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update project budgets, cost plans, and financial tracking tools in coordination with project managers.
• Monitor project commitments, actual costs, labor charges, expenses, and remaining budget to support accurate cost control.
• Prepare recurring cost reports, budget summaries, forecasts, and variance analyses for project and operational leadership.
• Identify budget variances, cost trends, and potential overruns; communicate findings and support development of corrective actions.
• Support estimate-to-complete and estimate-at-completion updates by collecting, validating, and reconciling project cost data.
• Review project financial information for accuracy and coordinate with Accounting and project teams to resolve discrepancies.
• Assist with invoice review, billing support, purchase order and subcontract tracking, and documentation of project commitments.
• Maintain cost-control records, logs, supporting documentation, and audit-ready project files in Kahua and other business systems.
• Support project setup, coding structures, budget revisions, change tracking, and financial closeout activities.
• Prepare financial portions of project progress reports and provide cost information for internal and client-facing deliverables

Skills

Budget tracking

Cost control

Forecasting

Organization

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, construction management, project management, or related field

Tools

Kahua

Job description

Exp Federal is seeking a Project Controls Assistant to support the Construction and Mission Support Group across multiple offices, including Chicago, Atlanta, and Chantilly. This full-time role focuses on budgeting, cost tracking, and financial reporting to ensure projects stay within approved budgets.

The ideal candidate has a degree in finance or related field and 3–5 years of experience in project budgeting and cost management.