HNTB

Project Analyst I

HNTB • $65K — $97K *
Chicago, IL 60629In-Person
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field or 4 years of related work experience
  • Ability to manage project finance duties for low-risk projects
  • Emerging understanding of internal project finance processes
  • Developing data analysis skills with tools like Excel
  • Basic understanding of contract requirements
  • Developing organizational and multitasking skills

Responsibilities

  • Engages in financial support across the entire project lifecycle
  • Models gross margin scenarios and suggests performance improvements
  • Monitors budget accuracy and aligns it with client requirements
  • Ensures timely invoice approvals and resolves discrepancies with teams
  • Generates reports to track cost issues and investigates anomalies
  • Forecasts project completion costs and documents changes
  • Facilitates earnings review processes and performs revenue adjustments
  • Develops client relationships to ensure service and manage subcontractors

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Paid time off and flexible work hours
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Employee assistance programs
Full Job Description
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 under guidance to identify and track potential cost issues and overruns. Investigates budget anomalies and 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.
  • Supports and may facilitate 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 finance supervisor in a timely manner.
  • Develops client and subconsultant relationships, ensuring effective client service and efficient subconsultant management.
  • Works with and utilizes PFAs for routine transactional support.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.


What You'll Need:
  • Bachelor's degree, or
  • In lieu of education, 4 years of financial, project accounting/analysis, or related work experience.


What You'll Bring:
  • Ability to manage ownership of the project finance responsibilities for smaller, low-risk projects or assist in larger projects.
  • Ability to read and comprehend basic contract requirements.
  • Emerging understanding of HNTB internal project finance/accounting processes.
  • Developing data analysis skills, able to accurately store, interpret, and present data using tools such as Excel, HNTB's enterprise reporting system, and HNTB's project management system.
  • Developing conceptual and analytical skills, interpreting and taking/driving action on data.
  • Developing organizational skills and the ability to multitask.


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.

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Locations:
Chicago, IL

The approximate pay range for Illinois is $65,297.81 - $97,946.72. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position based on all selected locations within the state at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

NOTICE TO THIRD-PARTY AGENCIES:

HNTB does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of HNTB. HNTB will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity. Staffing/employment agencies who have fee agreements with HNTB must submit applicants to the designated HNTB recruiter to be eligible for placement fees.

About HNTB

HNTB Corporation is an American infrastructure design firm that was founded in 1914. The firm has designed many bridges, roadways, airports, and other infrastructure projects throughout the United States. HNTB has worked on many high-profile projects, including the Hoover Dam Bypass, the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, and the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport. The firm has over 60 offices throughout the United States and employs over 5,000 people.
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Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Real Estate & Construction
* Ladders Estimates

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