Project Cost Analyst

Curtin Maritime • Long Beach, CA

114d • $90,000 - $100,000

About The Position

Curtin Maritime is seeking a Cost Analyst to manage the daily cost tracking and reporting for its dredging projects. This role is crucial for consolidating cost data from various systems, ensuring accuracy and speed, and providing leadership with clear, actionable financial insights. The successful candidate will be instrumental in building and improving the project cost reporting infrastructure, moving beyond manual spreadsheet maintenance to create a more robust and automated system.

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.
• 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.
• Experience with procurement/expense platforms (e.g., Procurify).
• Experience with payroll/labor systems.

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