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Project Control Analyst (Senior)

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In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
Senior level
In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
Senior level
Provides project-control and contract-finance support for a government program. Responsibilities include tracking funding, expenditures, CLINs, invoices, burn rates, forecasts, estimates at completion, spend plans, and variances. The role prepares financial dashboards and reporting inputs, reconciles invoice documentation, supports purchase and travel authorizations, maintains auditable records, and coordinates with contracts, finance, procurement, subcontractors, and government stakeholders. An active Secret clearance, bachelor’s degree, and at least eight years of experience are required.
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Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Project Control Analyst to provide financial analysis, project controls, reporting, and contract-administration support for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role manages and analyzes funding, invoicing, expenditures, burn rates, estimates at completion, spend plans, tools, travel, other direct costs, and related contract-financial data. 

The Senior Project Control Analyst will support SAM.gov service-contract reporting, monitor funding and expenditures by Contract Line Item Number, develop financial information for Monthly Status Reports and Program Management Reviews, and maintain accurate data for program dashboards and approval workflows. This position will work closely with program leadership, contracts, finance, task leads, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders to promote accurate forecasting, compliant invoicing, and timely financial decision-making. 

This position is remote, with preference given to candidates located in or near Chicago. 

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid. 

Duties & Responsibilities

The Senior Project Control Analyst will: 

  • Prepare and maintain annual service-contract labor reporting data for submission through SAM.gov, including applicable subcontractor labor. 
  • Monitor task order funding, expenditures, commitments, and available balances by CLIN, contract period, task, and cost category. 
  • Develop and maintain budget-versus-actual analyses, burn-rate calculations, forecasts, and estimates at completion. 
  • Prepare spend plans, funding-status reports, financial dashboards, and other decision-support products for program leadership. 
  • Develop financial inputs for Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Reviews, Project Management Plan updates, and other recurring program deliverables. 
  • Track planned and actual expenditures and identify funding, schedule, or performance variances requiring management attention. 
  • Prepare draft invoice backup documentation and reconcile supporting data before submission for Government review and approval. 
  • Validate invoice charges against the applicable contract period, CLIN, labor category, rate, quantity, and supporting documentation. 
  • Support electronic invoice preparation and submission through the Government-designated invoicing system. 
  • Track current-period and cumulative invoicing, subcontracted amounts, billed costs, remaining balances, and final-invoice status. 
  • Maintain detailed tracking for tools, travel, and other direct costs, including purchase documentation, approvals, incurred costs, and cumulative amounts invoiced. 
  • Support Requests to Initiate Purchase, Consent to Purchase requests, and Travel Authorization Requests. 
  • Track whether proposed purchases are commercial or non-commercial items or services and maintain supporting commerciality records. 
  • Coordinate with contracts, accounting, finance, procurement, task leads, and subcontractors to validate financial data and resolve discrepancies. 
  • Maintain financial data supporting Task Order Management Portal dashboards, management reports, and approval workflows. 
  • Establish and maintain consistent financial-control procedures, templates, logs, and reconciliation processes. 
  • Support funding and financial-data transitions during transition-in and transition-out activities. 
  • Analyze financial trends and communicate potential funding shortfalls, overruns, underruns, invoicing delays, and other risks to program leadership. 
  • Maintain organized, complete, and auditable financial records in accordance with contract and company requirements. 
  • Protect sensitive Government, corporate, personnel, and financial information. 
Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

  • Active Secret clearance or higher. 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field. 
  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience in project controls, program finance, financial planning and analysis, contract finance, accounting, or a related discipline. 
  • Experience supporting Department of Defense, federal civilian, or other Government contracts. 
  • Experience monitoring funding and expenditures by CLIN, task, contract period, or cost category. 
  • Experience developing budgets, forecasts, burn-rate analyses, estimates at completion, variance analyses, and spend plans. 
  • Experience preparing financial inputs for Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Reviews, or comparable executive-level reports. 
  • Experience preparing, reviewing, reconciling, or supporting Government contract invoices and invoice backup documentation. 
  • Experience with firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-award-fee, cost-reimbursable, tools, travel, or other direct cost CLINs. 
  • Experience with SAM.gov service-contract reporting. 
  • Experience with Government invoicing or acquisition systems, including ASSIST or comparable platforms. 
  • Experience supporting travel authorizations, purchase requests, consent-to-purchase requests, and commerciality tracking. 
  • Experience coordinating financial data with contracts, accounting, procurement, task leads, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders. 
  • Experience maintaining financial information in program-management portals, dashboards, or automated approval workflows. 
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data validation, reconciliation, and financial modeling. 
  • Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, Microsoft Project, or comparable financial, reporting, and collaboration tools. 
  • Knowledge of federal contracting, funding controls, invoicing requirements, indirect costs, and financial-record retention. 
  • Familiarity with earned value concepts and project-performance measurement. 
  • CPA, CMA, Certified Government Financial Manager, Earned Value Professional, PMP, or a comparable financial or project-controls certification. 
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, reconciliation, and forecasting abilities. 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Strong attention to detail, data integrity, and documentation quality. 
  • Ability to explain complex financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders. 
  • Ability to manage multiple reporting cycles, deadlines, and approval workflows. 
  • Ability to work independently while maintaining accountability, discretion, and consistent follow-through. 
Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
  • EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
  • Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
  • Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

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