Intermediate Professional, Accounting

This Opportunity The Project Financial Advisor (PFA) acts as a trusted finance partner to project delivery teams, ensuring alignment of financial outcomes with enterprise objectives. The role spans the entire project lifecycle across project budget setup review, revenue recognition, and timeline project financial reviews, by delivering disciplined financial stewardship and analysis. PFAs advise on profitability monitoring, working capital management for projects and compliance while contributing to sound decision-making and risk identification across a portfolio that ranges in a complexity of projects independently and supporting more complex projects with guidance.

This Opportunity The Project Financial Advisor (PFA) acts as a trusted finance partner to project delivery teams, ensuring alignment of financial outcomes with enterprise objectives. The role spans the entire project lifecycle across project budget setup review, revenue recognition, and timeline project financial reviews, by delivering disciplined financial stewardship and analysis. PFAs advise on profitability monitoring, working capital management for projects and compliance while contributing to sound decision-making and risk identification across a portfolio that ranges in a complexity of projects independently and supporting more complex projects with guidance.

• Contribute to the sound financial management of projects by working as an active financial partner to Project Managers, ensuring adherence to contractual obligations and financial terms
• Provide guidance on initial project setup, including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budgeting, rate selection, and pricing tool development inputs
• Advise on project financial planning and risk identification
• Support the review of category rates and labor structures to help maintain project recoverability and financial performance
• Review labor structures (e.g., non-billable time, cap rates, and labor breakage) to identify and flag areas for rate optimization and margin improvement
• Advise on project funding, billing methods, and rates for assigned projects
• Identify and communicate margin-related observations and cost-to-serve considerations to support financial performance
• Support the assessment of financial impact of subcontracts to ensure alignment with prime contract and profitability objectives

• Monitor execution of customer contracts for financial nuances (fee type, caps, retentions, deliverable-based triggers i.e., scheduled billing, milestones, CPFF [Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee])
• Review and validate project structure in Project Portfolio Management (PPM): WBS, funding, billing methods, rates, tax, revenue method, and project/contract master data
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, delegations of authority, and revenue recognition standards
• Coordinate and review Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE)/ Women Business Enterprise (WBE)/ all business enterprise categories (XBE) reporting requirements [US and CA-specific, different terminology in the UK&I, confirm regional application/terminology]

• Perform margin impact and financial impact calculations and provide support in identifying reasons for variability in project margins
• Monitor the project-level forecast cycle for assigned projects, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with FP&A targets
• Review project budgets and forecasts to support the Project Manager in validating assumptions and financial accuracy
• Monitor mitigation action plans as directed by the Project Manager and report progress to the PFA Manager
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