Project Analyst II

HNTB Corporation; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

HNTB Corporation is seeking a Project Analyst to provide financial guidance to project teams, focusing on budgets, profitability, cash flow, and contract compliance. You will be the primary financial advisor through the project lifecycle, ensuring success in contracting, compensation, and payment terms, along with cost controls and revenue recognition.

You will model gross margins, oversee PM-system changes, validate invoices, and produce reports to identify variances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required or 6 years of financial/project accounting experience in lieu of degree.
• Ability to read and comprehend contract requirements.
• Intermediate data analysis skills using Excel and ERP/project systems.

Responsibilities

• Engages and supports all financial aspects across the project lifecycle.
• Models and analyzes gross margin scenarios from engagement through negotiations.
• Ensures accuracy of budget, forecasts, and expenditures within PM system and client contracts.
• Reviews invoices and payment applications per client terms; collaborates with cash management to resolve issues.
• Generates and reviews standard and ad hoc reports to identify cost overruns and variances.
• Forecasts EAC by tracking changes to cost accounts and change orders.
• Supports earnings review process using GAAP and revenue recognition concepts.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Project management systems

Reporting tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Engineering or related field

Tools

Enterprise reporting system

Project management system

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.
• Forecasts and monitors project estimate-at-completion (EAC) by recording potential and actual changes to cost accounts, including change orders, trends, and deviations.
• Facilitates an efficient earnings review process with the project team, using GAAP and revenue recognition concepts to analyze project finance performance. Performs project revenue adjustments with general supervision.
• Escalates project performance that impacts office results to the office finance manager in a timely manner.
• Develops client and subconsultant relationships, ensuring effective client service and efficient subconsultant management.
• May offer guidance and mentorship to Project Finance Associates, including oversight of day-to-day work. Utilizes PFAs for routine transactional support.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of financial, project accounting/analysis, or related experience, or
• In lieu of education, 6 years of financial, project accounting/analysis, or related work experience

What You'll Bring:

• Ability to manage ownership of the project finance responsibilities for small to medium projects or ownership of a portion of larger projects.
• Ability to read and comprehend contract requirements to ensure adherence.
• Developing an understanding of HNTB internal project finance/accounting processes.
• Intermediate data analysis skills, able to accurately analyze and interpret data to draw conclusions using tools such as Excel, HNTB's enterprise reporting system, and HNTB's project management system.
• Intermediate conceptual and analytical skills, driving action on data.
• Intermediate organizational skills, ability to multitask, and self-directed.

What We Prefer:

• Degree in relevant Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or related field
• Knowledge of project financial management/cost controls
• Knowledge of accounting/financial principles and practices
• Knowledge of A/E industry

Additional Information

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Locations:

Atlanta, GA, Lake Mary, FL, Miami, FL, Nashville, TN (City Center), Tallahassee, FL, Tampa, FL

Affirmative Action Policy Statement

HNTB provides a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status, or other status protected by law. The HNTB Companies ensure nondiscrimination in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Any applicant with limited English proficiency or a qualifying physical or mental disability who believes they require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact us at [e-mail] or call 816-527-2600 for assistance. HNTB will make determinations on requests for accommodations on a case-by-case basis.

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Thank you for considering HNTB for your career opportunities.

Robert J. Slimp, CEO