Project Cost Analyst
$90,000–$100,000 year
On-siteLong Beach, California, United States
Job Summary
Aggregate and validate daily project costs across labor, charters, rentals, and consumables, confirming activity coding and flagging variances before they compound. Produce weekly rollups reconciling site-level spend with project budgets and monthly FP&A actuals, while tracking bid-to-actuals on rentals in real time. Review and approve expenses, credit card spend, and POs against budgets, partnering with Payroll on weekly labor audits. Design automated reporting infrastructure using Power BI and existing platforms to eliminate manual rebuilding, partnering with IT to close system gaps. Surface cost trends proactively to leadership while supporting multiple concurrent dredge projects.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years in cost analysis, project controls, FP&A, or similar
- marine/dredging, construction, or heavy-asset industry experience
- 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
Desired Qualifications
- experience with procurement/expense platforms (e.g., Procurify)
- experience with payroll/labor systems
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