Project Control Analyst (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek•Chicago, IL

3d•Remote

About The Position

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Project Control Analyst to provide financial analysis, project controls, reporting, and contract-administration support for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The role manages and analyzes funding, invoicing, expenditures, burn rates, estimates at completion, spend plans, tools, travel, other direct costs, and related contract-financial data. It supports SAM.gov service-contract reporting, monitors funding and expenditures by Contract Line Item Number (CLIN), develops financial information for Monthly Status Reports and Program Management Reviews, and maintains accurate data for program dashboards and approval workflows. The analyst works closely with program leadership, contracts, finance, task leads, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders to promote accurate forecasting, compliant invoicing, and timely financial decisions. The position is remote, with preference for candidates located in or near Chicago. Applicants acknowledge and consent to having their resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

Experience in project controls, program finance, financial planning and analysis, contract finance, accounting, or a related discipline.
Experience supporting Department of Defense, 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.

Responsibilities

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, procurement, task leads, and subcontractors 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.