Senior Project Control Analyst

VT Group (VTG); Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

VT Group (VTG) is seeking a Senior Project Control Analyst to provide project financial and reporting support to Division Leads in a government contracting environment. You will analyze budgets, actuals, and variances, collaborating with Accounting and Contracts to ensure timely invoicing and accurate close processes.

The role requires advanced Excel, CostPoint experience, and five or more years in a project-control or finance position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of government contracting experience in project control, finance or accounting.
• Proficient with MS Excel and project costing.
• Experience with CostPoint software.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with cross-functional interfaces.
• Ability to perform ad hoc reporting and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Works with Program Managers and Contracts on LOC notices.
• Review project set-up for all new contracts (WBS, POP, etc.) to ensure accuracy.
• Collaborate with Accounting and Contracts to ensure data validity and billing requirements.
• Understand the budget for each project and assist PMs with current financial data.
• Review time charging and expenses for accuracy and alignment.
• Prepare monthly reporting for the assigned Division.

Skills

Excel for data analysis

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

CostPoint

MS Project

Job description

Overview The Senior Project Control Analyst provides project financial and reporting support to Division Leads. Compiles data from Accounting and Contracts to analyze project status. Acts as a liaison between Operations and primarily the Accounting, Finance and Contracts functions.

Overview The Senior Project Control Analyst provides project financial and reporting support to Division Leads. Compiles data from Accounting and Contracts to analyze project status. Acts as a liaison between Operations and primarily the Accounting, Finance and Contracts functions.

What will you do?

• Works with Program Managers and Contracts on LOC notices
• Review project set-up for all new contracts (WBS, POP, etc.) to ensure accuracy
• Work closely with Accounting and Contracts to ensure validity of data, address billing and deliverable requirements, etc.
• Understand the budget for each project and assist PMs with staying current on financial data relative to project
• Review time charging for all assigned projects
• Review expenses for each project for accuracy and correct project alignment
• Reconcile actual vs. budget costs per project
• Submit monthly accruals for all assigned projects
• Review and understand the monthly revenue, gross profit and identify any variances
• Understand unbilled data, accounts receivable and accounts payable relative to projects and assist in managing DSO/DPO
• Prepare monthly reporting for the assigned Division
• Review and work with PMs on approving all invoices prior to customer submission
• Work as a part of the Accounting team on the monthly close process
• Review and prepare monthly EACs and ETCs
• Understand working at risk thresholds on each project and get appropriate approvals as needed
• Understand reporting needs of each Division and department interfacing with assigned projects
• Calculate incentive awards / commissions applicable to assigned Division
• Support the Division Lead for any ad hoc reporting, budgeting, and forecasting

Monthly reporting

• Revenue and gross profit with variance analysis
• Labor utilization with variance analysis
• Work at Risk summary
• Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable commentary relative to assigned projects
• Unbilled commentary relative to assigned projects
• Backlog reporting in concert with Contracts data

Do you have what it takes?

• Exceptional Excel skills including the ability to analyze data
• Experience using CostPoint
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in government contracting performing in a Project Control, Finance / Accounting, or related role
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to interface with staff members at all levels within the organization
• Individuals hired into positions holding financial responsibility may be subject to a credit check
• Thorough knowledge of accounting and finance functions and the ability to reason and complete difficult and complex assignments.
• Knowledge of mathematics to include: elementary statistics, intermediate level math, and/or accounting.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to communicate effectively with appropriate IT professionals to develop reports and obtain data from a variety of sources as necessary for analyses and information requirements.
• Ability to extract and combine data from numerous sources and use a variety of software applications to develop and create necessary information for analysis.
• Advanced experience with project management applications, particularly MS Project.
• Advanced experience with spreadsheet applications, particularly MS Excel.

Pay Range: VTG’s estimated starting pay range is $90,000-100,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.