Project Cost Analyst

Curtin Maritime • Long Beach, CA

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About The Position

For 25 years, Curtin Maritime has been an industry leader in quality maritime solutions. We're a dynamic Marine Construction and Marine Transportation company experiencing rapid growth, giving our team the chance to work on unique projects in some of the most amazing places on earth. Efficiency, Innovation, and Integrity aren't just words on a wall here — they're how we run our fleet and our projects. The Opportunity Curtin Maritime is looking for a Cost Analyst to own day-to-day cost tracking and reporting for our dredging projects. Right now, project cost data lives across multiple systems with inconsistent speed and accuracy — and Project Managers are stuck chasing it down on top of running their jobs. This role changes that. You'll bring that data together, make it accurate and fast, and hand leadership clean, decision-ready numbers — building the reporting infrastructure that doesn't fully exist yet. It's a chance to build something real, not just maintain a spreadsheet.

Requirements

• 3+ years in cost analysis, project controls, FP&A, or similar
• Strong Excel skills
• Hands-on experience with Power BI or a comparable BI/reporting tool.
• Comfort pulling and reconciling data from multiple, non-integrated systems into one clean, consistent report.
• A detail-oriented mindset with real follow-through on variances — you're not satisfied with “close enough.”
• Ability to work directly with field and site staff without disrupting their day-to-day operations.

Nice To Haves

• Marine/dredging, construction, or heavy-asset industry experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with procurement/expense platforms (e.g., Procurify) and payroll/labor systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Aggregate and validate project costs daily across labor, charters, rentals, lodging, travel, consumables, services, stores, and fuel.
• Confirm dredges and projects are coding activity to the correct cost code so spend lands where it belongs.
• Produce a recurring cost package per project comparing actuals to budget — flagging variances before they compound, not after.
• Build and maintain the weekly rollup that ties site-level spend back to the project budget and reconciles cleanly with monthly FP&A actuals.
• Track bid-to-actuals on rentals and charters; monitor commitments against budget in real time.
• Review and approve (or route) expenses, credit card spend, and POs against project budgets.
• Partner with Payroll on weekly labor audits, flagging discrepancies between budgeted and actual hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed