Project Financial Advisor

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The Project Financial Advisor (PFA) acts as a trusted strategic finance partner to project delivery teams, ensuring alignment of financial outcomes with enterprise objectives. The role spans the entire project lifecycle, from pricing and pursuit through contract execution, revenue recognition, and close-out, by delivering disciplined financial governance, insightful analysis, and commercial advisory. PFAs advise on profitability, working capital management for projects and compliance while enabling informed decision-making and proactive risk mitigation across a portfolio of projects of varying complexity.

Job Description

This Opportunity

The Project Financial Advisor (PFA) acts as a trusted strategic finance partner to project delivery teams, ensuring alignment of financial outcomes with enterprise objectives. The role spans the entire project lifecycle, from pricing and pursuit through contract execution, revenue recognition, and close-out, by delivering disciplined financial governance, insightful analysis, and commercial advisory. PFAs advise on profitability, working capital management for projects and compliance while enabling informed decision-making and proactive risk mitigation across a portfolio of projects of varying complexity.

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Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Financial Partnering & Commercial Advisory

• Contribute to the sound financial management of projects by working as an active strategic financial partner to Project Managers, ensuring adherence to contractual obligations and financial terms
• Advise on bidding commercials and early-stage pursuit financial decision-making and analysis, including pricing and margin analysis, financial guardrails, risk provisions, and sensitivity trade-offs
• Provide financial input into commercial strategy and delivery planning; advise on project financial strategy and risk mitigation opportunities
• Advise on project funding, billing methods, and rates for assigned projects
• Promote a value-creation mindset by highlighting margin-improvement opportunities and cost-to-serve efficiencies
• Advise on 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)
• Review and validate project structure in 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 DBE/WBE/XBE reporting requirements

• Perform margin impact and financial impact calculations and provide support in identifying reasons for variability in project margins
• Monitor the monthly project-level forecast cycle for assigned projects, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with FP&A targets
• Perform project level scenario planning and variance analyses to model project revenue and margin impact under dynamic conditions
• Review project budgets and forecasts for appropriateness and adequacy of assumptions
• Track mitigation action plans to close gaps and report progress to Managers
• Perform revenue adjustment, whenever required, throughout project delivery; advise of other financial adjustments
• Manage sub-contracting activities including requisition and PO creation (in alignment with Procurement), supplier/subcontractor invoice processing, and AP payment requests

• Contribute to project portfolio reviews through analyses and commentary on key drivers (e.g., margin erosion, forecast accuracy, working capital risks, revenue recognition, change control)
• Review key measures and financial tracking, including client-specific reporting requests
• Monitor performance against KPIs and flag variances promptly to Finance Business Partners with recommended corrective actions
• Participate in review meetings with Project Managers; deliver actionable insights on key performance drivers, risks, and required decisions
• Perform root cause analysis on recurring financial variances and recommend corrective actions
• Obtain approval for Work at Risk (WAR) and monitor exposure to closure
• Prepare and maintain client closeout documentation, including final reports, retention invoice, and compliance certificates, as necessary

• Respond to customer audit requests, coordinate evidence and formal responses with Controllership and Delivery
• Review and collaborate with project team on finance-specific responses to audit requests (internal or external)
• Ensure records, calculations, and decision logs are audit-ready and retained per policy.

• Collaborate with PFOs, Billing, Collections, Cash App, FP&A, Controllership, and business teams to…