Project Analyst II

hntb; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB is seeking a Project Analyst to provide financial guidance throughout the project lifecycle, focusing on budgets, profitability, cash flow, and contract compliance. You will partner with project teams to optimize costs and ensure accurate revenue recognition and invoicing.

The role emphasizes analyzing gross margins, aligning work plans with client terms, and collaborating with the project manager and cash management teams to resolve billing variances.

Qualifications

• Experience providing financial guidance on budgets and profitability.
• Knowledge of cost controls, revenue recognition, and cash management.
• Ability to analyze gross margin scenarios and advise on billing and payment terms.

Responsibilities

• Engages and supports all financial aspects across the project lifecycle.
• Models and analyzes gross margin scenarios from engagement to negotiations, with revenue and cash recommendations.
• Ensures PM system accuracy by updating budgets, commitments, forecasts, and expenditures to align with contracts.
• Reviews invoices and payment applications for client terms; partners with cash management to resolve billing issues.
• Generates standard and ad hoc reports to identify cost overruns and variances and escalates as needed.

Job description

What We're Looking For

At HNTB, you can create a career that is meaningful to you while building communities that matter to all of us. For more than a century, we have been delivering solutions for some of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects across the country. With our historic growth, it is an exciting time to join our team of employee-owners.

This opportunity entails being responsible for providing financial guidance to project teams, with a focus on budgets, profitability, earnings variances, cash flow, and contract compliance. The Project Analyst acts as the primary financial advisor throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring success in areas such as contracting, compensation and payment terms, workplan/project management system alignment, budgets, cost controls, revenue recognition, and cash and invoice management.

What You'll Do

• Engages and supports all financial aspects across the entire project lifecycle.
• Models and analyzes gross margin scenarios from initial engagement through final negotiations, offering revenue and cash performance recommendations and enhancement strategies.
• Ensures the accuracy of the PM system by overseeing changes to budget, commitments, forecasts, and expenditures, aligning work plans with client/contract requirements.
• Reviews and ensures timely and accurate invoice approval and payment applications according to client terms and requirements, including subcontracting needs. Collaborates with the project manager and cash management team to proactively resolve billing and revenue discrepancies.
• Generates and evaluates standard and ad hoc reports to identify and track potential cost issues and overruns. Investigates budget anomalies and resolves variances or escalates concerns to discuss actions.