Project Control Analyst (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek seeks a Senior Project Control Analyst to provide financial analysis, project controls, reporting, and contract‑administration support for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. You will manage funding, invoicing, burn rates, forecasts, and spend plans while coordinating with government stakeholders to ensure accurate forecasting and timely financial decision‑making.

This role is remote with a preference for candidates located in or near Chicago.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and submit SAM.gov service-contract labor reporting data.
• Monitor funding, expenditures, commitments, and balances by CLIN.
• Develop budgets, burn-rate analyses, forecasts, and estimates at completion.
• Create spend plans, funding-status reports, dashboards, and decision-support products.
• Provide inputs for Monthly Status Reports and Management Reviews.
• Track expenditures and identify variances requiring management attention.
• Validate invoices and support Government review and approval.
• Maintain financial data for dashboards and approval workflows.
• Maintain auditable financial records and protect sensitive information.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field

Tools

SAM.gov service-contract reporting

ASSIST

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Project Control Analyst to provide financial analysis, project controls, reporting, and contract‑administration support for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role manages and analyzes funding, invoicing, expenditures, burn rates, estimates at completion, spend plans, tools, travel, other direct costs, and related contract‑financial data. The Senior Project Control Analyst will support SAM.gov service‑contract reporting, monitor funding and expenditures by Contract Line Item Number, develop financial information for Monthly Status Reports and Program Management Reviews, and maintain accurate data for program dashboards and approval workflows. This position will work closely with program leadership, contracts, finance, task leads, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders to promote accurate forecasting, compliant invoicing, and timely financial decision‑making.

This position is remote, with preference given to candidates located in or near Chicago.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Senior Project Control Analyst will:

• Prepare and maintain annual service‑contract labor reporting data for submission through SAM.gov, including applicable subcontractor labor.
• Monitor task order funding, expenditures, commitments, and available balances by CLIN, contract period, task, and cost category.
• Develop and maintain budget‑versus‑actual analyses, burn‑rate calculations, forecasts, and estimates at completion.
• Prepare spend plans, funding‑status reports, financial dashboards, and other decision‑support products for program leadership.
• Develop financial inputs for Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Reviews, Project Management Plan updates, and other recurring program deliverables.
• Track planned and actual expenditures and identify funding, schedule, or performance variances requiring management attention.
• Prepare draft invoice backup documentation and reconcile supporting data before submission for Government review and approval.
• Validate invoice charges against the applicable contract period, CLIN, labor category, rate, quantity, and supporting documentation.
• Support electronic invoice preparation and submission through the Government‑designated invoicing system.
• Track current‑period and cumulative invoicing, subcontracted amounts, billed costs, remaining balances, and final‑invoice status.
• Maintain detailed tracking for tools, travel, and other direct costs, including purchase documentation, approvals, incurred costs, and cumulative amounts invoiced.
• Support Requests to Initiate Purchase, Consent to Purchase requests, and Travel Authorization Requests.
• Track whether proposed purchases are commercial or non‑commercial items or services and maintain supporting commerciality records.
• Coordinate with contracts, accounting, finance, procurement, task leads, and subcontractors to validate financial data and resolve discrepancies.
• Maintain financial data supporting Task Order Management Portal dashboards, management reports, and approval workflows.
• Establish and maintain consistent financial‑control procedures, templates, logs, and reconciliation processes.
• Support funding and financial‑data transitions during transition‑in and transition‑out activities.
• Analyze financial trends and communicate potential funding shortfalls, overruns, underruns, invoicing delays, and other risks to program leadership.
• Maintain organized, complete, and auditable financial records in accordance with contract and company requirements.
• Protect sensitive Government, corporate, personnel, and financial information.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in project controls, program finance, financial planning and analysis, contract finance, accounting, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense, federal civilian, or other Government contracts.
• Experience monitoring funding and expenditures by CLIN, task, contract period, or cost category.
• Experience developing budgets, forecasts, burn‑rate analyses, estimates at completion, variance analyses, and spend plans.
• Experience preparing financial inputs for Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Reviews, or comparable executive‑level reports.
• Experience preparing, reviewing, reconciling, or supporting Government contract invoices and invoice backup documentation.
• Experience with firm‑fixed‑price, fixed‑price‑award‑fee, cost‑reimbursable, tools, travel, or other direct cost CLINs.
• Experience with SAM.gov service‑contract reporting.
• Experience with Government invoicing or acquisition systems, including ASSIST or comparable platforms.