Senior Project Control Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Compile and sustain annual service-contract labor reporting data for submission via SAM.gov, including relevant subcontractor labor.

• Oversee task order funding, expenditures, commitments, and available balances categorized by CLIN, contract period, task, and cost category.

• Create and uphold budget-versus-actual assessments, burn-rate calculations, forecasts, and estimates for project completion.

• Generate spend plans, funding-status reports, financial dashboards, and additional decision-support materials for program leadership.

• Develop financial inputs for Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Reviews, Project Management Plan updates, and other recurring program deliverables.

• Monitor planned versus actual expenditures and pinpoint funding, schedule, or performance discrepancies that need management intervention.

• Prepare draft invoice backup documentation and reconcile supporting data prior to submission for Government review and authorization.

• Verify invoice charges against the relevant contract period, CLIN, labor category, rate, quantity, and necessary documentation.

• Assist in electronic invoice preparation and submission through the Government-designated invoicing platform.

• Track current-period and total invoicing, subcontracted amounts, billed costs, remaining balances, and final-invoice status.

• Maintain thorough tracking of tools, travel, and other direct costs, including purchase documentation, approvals, incurred costs, and total amounts invoiced.

• Assist with Requests to Initiate Purchase, Consent to Purchase requests, and Travel Authorization Requests.

• Monitor whether proposed purchases are commercial or non-commercial items or services and keep supporting commerciality records.

• Collaborate with contracts, accounting, finance, procurement, task leads, and subcontractors to verify financial data and resolve discrepancies.

• Maintain financial data supporting Task Order Management Portal dashboards, management reports, and approval workflows.

• Establish and uphold consistent financial-control procedures, templates, logs, and reconciliation processes.

• Aid in funding and financial-data transitions during transition-in and transition-out activities.

• Analyze financial trends and inform program leadership of potential funding shortfalls, overruns, underruns, invoicing delays, and other risks.

• Maintain organized, comprehensive, and auditable financial records in line with contract and company standards.

• Safeguard sensitive Government, corporate, personnel, and financial information.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline.

• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in project controls, program finance, financial planning and analysis, contract finance, accounting, or a related field.

• Experience supporting Department of Defense, federal civilian, or other Government contracts.

• Experience overseeing 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 similar executive-level reports.

• Experience preparing, reviewing, reconciling, or assisting with 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.

• Experience supporting travel authorizations, purchase requests, consent-to-purchase requests, and commerciality tracking.

• Experience coordinating financial data with contracts, accounting, procurement, task leads, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders.

• Experience maintaining financial information in program-management portals, dashboards, or automated approval workflows.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, and financial modeling.

• Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, Microsoft Project, or similar financial, reporting, and collaboration tools.

• Knowledge of federal contracting, funding controls, invoicing requirements, indirect costs, and financial-record retention.

• Familiarity with earned value concepts and project-performance measurement.

• Strong quantitative, analytical, reconciliation, and forecasting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Strong attention to detail, data integrity, and document quality.

• Ability to convey complex financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.

• Capacity to manage multiple reporting cycles, deadlines, and approval workflows.

• Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability, discretion, and consistent follow-through.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.

• Remote work arrangement.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Authorization to share resume and personal information with subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners for consideration for this and similar positions.