Project Control Analyst (Senior)

Overview

The organization is seeking 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.

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

Note: By applying, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

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, task leads, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders 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 or 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.
• 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 with Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, and financial modeling.
• Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, Microsoft Project, or comparable 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.
• CPA, CMA, Certified Government Financial Manager, Earned Value Professional, PMP, or a comparable financial or project-controls certification.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, reconciliation, and forecasting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail, data integrity, and documentation quality.
• Ability to explain complex financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple reporting cycles, deadlines, and approval workflows.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability, discretion, and consistent follow-through.

Equal Employment Opportunity / Pay Transparency / Data Use

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action policies apply.
• Pay transparency and related disclosure protections apply, consistent with applicable requirements.
• Submitting a resume authorizes the sharing of resume and personal information with subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners for consideration for this position and other comparable positions.