Financial Analyst

Aston Carter•Miramar, FL

7d•$38 - $40•Onsite

About The Position

The Financial Analyst (Project Analyst) supports the Product Construction team by bringing financial discipline, consistent reporting, and a strong governance structure to project portfolios. This role partners closely with Project Managers, Finance, Procurement, and leadership to maintain accurate financial data, monitor portfolio health, and deliver clear, actionable insights that enable timely decision-making. The position is ideal for an analytical, detail-oriented professional who is financially fluent and comfortable working across multiple systems, teams, and ambiguous situations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Analytics, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field.
3–5 years of experience in project financials, portfolio administration, project controls, reporting, or financial analysis.
Strong financial analysis skills with hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost tracking, reconciliations, or financial reporting.
Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, lookups, data structuring, data analysis, and data validation.
Proven ability to gather, reconcile, and validate data across multiple teams and systems.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and project data and translate it into actionable insights.
Effective communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to Project Managers, Finance, technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and follow-up skills to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
High level of organization, accuracy, and attention to detail when working with financial data and documentation.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in PMO, portfolio governance, Mission Control, or enterprise project environments.
Familiarity with Oracle Fusion, JDE, SAP, Workfront, Jira, SharePoint, Power BI, or similar enterprise tools and platforms.
Exposure to CAPEX projects, capital requests, procurement processes, purchase orders, invoices, or financial reconciliations.
Experience collaborating with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and project delivery teams.
Ability to turn ambiguous inputs and incomplete data into structured analysis, reporting, and clear follow-up actions.
Ability to build trust with Project Managers by making financial information easier to understand and act upon.
Capability to balance hands-on financial detail with a portfolio-level view of trends, risks, and key decisions.
Comfort working across multiple systems and tools while adapting to different levels of data maturity and process structure.

Responsibilities

Support project financial planning, including budget development, budget tracking, forecasting, variance analysis, and estimate-at-completion updates.
Monitor actuals, commitments, purchase orders, invoices, labor spend, accruals, resource costs, and forecasted spend across assigned projects and portfolios.
Prepare financial reports, budget health summaries, reconciliations, and risk callouts for Project Managers and leadership.
Identify budget risks, data gaps, overruns, and reconciliation issues, and escalate them with clear context and recommendations.
Build and maintain portfolio dashboards, scorecards, budget summaries, trackers, and reporting packages using Power BI, Excel, and related tools.
Consolidate project, program, and system data into reliable reporting views and a single, usable source of truth.
Analyze trends in spend, forecasts, resource utilization, project performance, and overall portfolio health.
Translate fragmented and complex data into concise insights, decision points, and leadership-ready updates.
Validate financial and project data across Oracle Fusion, JDE, Power BI, Excel, Workfront, Jira, SharePoint, and related systems.
Maintain budget trackers, financial workbooks, project repositories, templates, and governance documentation to support consistent processes.
Support change requests by assessing budget impacts, documenting financial implications, and updating forecasts as needed.
Assist with risk and issue tracking, including dependencies, action items, and reporting cadences for project and portfolio reviews.
Improve data quality, reporting accuracy, repeatability, and audit readiness through practical process improvements and controls.
Serve as a financial and governance support partner for Project Managers across active portfolios, helping them understand and act on financial information.
Partner with Program Managers, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and leadership to resolve financial and reporting issues and to align on portfolio priorities.
Gather, reconcile, and validate financial and operational inputs across teams and systems with varying levels of data maturity.
Support financial reviews, leadership presentations, project health reviews, and stakeholder follow-up by preparing materials and providing analytical insights.