Cost Analyst - Houston
The Cost Analyst supports project teams by managing cost tracking, forecasting, budgeting, accruals, and financial reporting. The role partners with Project Managers and key stakeholders to monitor project performance, identify cost variances and risks, maintain accurate financial data, and provide forward-looking analysis to support effective project and financial decision-making.
Responsibilities
Prepare and distribute ad hoc, weekly, and monthly internal and external cost reports to support project teams and management.
Pull, analyze, and validate actual costs, commitments, forecasts, accruals, and budget data from applicable financial and project systems.
Partner with Project Managers and Work-in-Progress (WIP) teams to develop accurate monthly accruals and ensure costs are recognized appropriately.
Maintain and input project forecasts, incorporating actual performance, commitments, anticipated expenditures, schedule impacts, and identified risks.
Coordinate with Planning & Performance (P&P) on monthly cost and forecast submissions and other required reporting deliverables.
Support management in development and maintenance of annual budgets, forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
Identify and communicate budget variances, cost trends, financial risks, and potential overruns early, providing forward-looking analysis and recommended mitigation actions.
Perform analysis to evaluate purchase orders, contracts, remaining obligations, and anticipated project expenditures.
Support PO and WBS closeout activities, including validation of outstanding commitments, final costs, and required cost corrections.
Partner with Accounting to research and resolve accrual, actual cost, coding, project accounting, and other cost related questions or discrepancies.
Prepare cost analysis and reporting packages for Project Managers and project leadership, highlighting key variances, trends, risks, and forecast changes.
Develop and maintain weekly and monthly labor progress and performance reports, including project cost tracking for direct and indirect labor, rental equipment, materials, and subcontracts.
Support the development and maintenance of change management processes, including change orders, budget transfers/shifts, trends, forecast changes, and contingency management.
Provide timely and accurate forward-looking cost analysis and assist project teams in developing mitigation plans to reduce or eliminate unforeseen cost impacts.
Actively participate in bi-weekly and monthly project cost reviews, presenting and discussing cost-control deliverables with Project Managers and other project stakeholders.
Develop and maintain project budgets and forecasts within applicable cost and progress tracking tools.
Perform routine data audits, reconciliations, and quality checks to ensure the completeness and accuracy of project cost information and reporting.
Serve as a liaison between Project Management, Procurement, Vendors, Operations, Accounting, Billing, and other functional teams to resolve cost and project-control issues.
Identify and process cost corrections, reallocations, and coding adjustments to maintain accurate project financials.
Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) principles and other project-control methodologies to evaluate project cost and performance where applicable.
Assist with the development, enhancement, standardization, and implementation of cost-control tools, templates, dashboards, and reporting processes to improve efficiency and consistency across projects.
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Location
Houston, TX
Skills
Accountingunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Auditingunmatched
Billingunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Change Managementunmatched
Change Requests/Ordersunmatched
Contract Requirementsunmatched
Cost Accountingunmatched
Cost Analysisunmatched
Cost Controlunmatched
Cost Forecastingunmatched
Cost Reportingunmatched
Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
Data Qualityunmatched
Earned Value Management (EVM)unmatched
Equipment Rentalsunmatched
Financial Planningunmatched
Financial Projectionsunmatched
Financial Reportingunmatched
Financial Riskunmatched
Financial Systemsunmatched
Financial Trend Analysisunmatched
Forecastingunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Performance Analysisunmatched
Process Developmentunmatched
Process Improvementunmatched
Progress Reportsunmatched
Project Controlunmatched
Project Evaluationunmatched
Project Trackingunmatched
Project/Program Managementunmatched
Purchase Ordersunmatched
Reconciliationunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
Risk Analysisunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
Variable Costsunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)unmatched
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