Project Analyst

MISSION 
The Project Analyst is responsible for data collection, performance analysis and providing 
recommendations to project managers and divisional leadership for projects within a portfolio. 
The Program Analyst is a key member of the project team and works directly with Divisional Leadership,
Project Managers and Project Schedulers to set, monitor, control and maintain project baselines and 
financial schedules. Analyze progress reported, identifies financial deviations against the baseline and 
assist the project team to efficiently manage cost and time over the entire project lifecycle. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Interpret contract terms to capture deliverables and financial aspects of requirements. 
• Interpret, summarize, and present large amounts of data in a manner that is easy to understand by 
• project and management teams across the organization and ad-hoc project status reports for 
• distribution to internal stakeholders. 
• Maintain project budgets, costs and cashflow forecasts in accordance with reporting periods. 

• Acts as a focal point of contact for the project teams in acquiring detailed project cost information, including invoices, payments, accruals, etc. 
• Maintains project/program budgets, providing internal distribution of financial information to evaluate profitability and performance of the project compared to budget 
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date project status data. Analyzes, researches, and creates reports on project status for the distribution to internal and external stakeholders. 
• Performs monthly revenue analysis, including WIP, flow-through and financial commitments. 

• Manages project data throughout the project lifecycle, from planning to closure within a program. 
• Assists the project team prepare routine and ad-hoc project and portfolio updates for presentation to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and external stakeholders. 
• Works closely with the project and portfolio managers to create and maintain an integrated financial project control system using relational databases (Epicor), data modeling and Power BI. 
• Assists in the improvement of quality and fidelity of financial reporting artifacts both for internal and external stakeholders. 
• Supports the project change management functions and maintain change management records of scope changes, trends, and variances. 
• Participates in PMO initiatives, such as, the implementation of earned value management (EVM), controls systems and KPIs, as well as SPI/CPI analysis across the program. 
• Prepares project invoices (A/R) and supports the timely reconciliation and payment of vendor invoices (A/P). 
• Supports the onboarding of new project team members. 

KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS 

• Education: Financial degree or Accounting designation (CPA) or designation in progress. 
• Experience: +5 years with analyst or accounting experience in a Project delivery organization. 
• Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; highly accurate; detail and deadline 
• oriented; advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel; ability to multi-task; working 
• knowledge of general accounting software, EPICOR would be an asset.