# Project Financial Advisor

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $77,100- $122,700
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Project Financial Advisor (PFA) acts as a trusted finance partner to project delivery teams, ensuring alignment of financial outcomes with enterprise objectives.

**Financial Partnering and Project Support**

- Contribute to sound financial management of projects by working as an active financial partner to Project Managers.

- Provide guidance on initial project setup, including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budgeting, and pricing tool development inputs.

- Advise on project financial planning and risk identification.

- Support review of category rates and labor structures to maintain project recoverability and financial performance.

- Review labor structures to identify 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.

- Support assessment of financial impact of subcontracts.

**Financial aspects of Contract Execution, Structure & Policy Compliance**

- Monitor execution of customer contracts for financial nuances.

- Review and validate project structure in Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

- 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.

**Forecasting, Planning & Financial Alignment**

- Perform margin impact and financial impact calculations.

- Monitor project-level forecast cycle for assigned projects.

- Review project budgets and forecasts to support Project Manager in validating assumptions and financial accuracy.

- Monitor mitigation action plans and report progress.

- Perform revenue accruals and advise on other financial adjustments.

- Manage sub-contracting activities.

**Project/Portfolio Performance Management**

- Contribute to project performance reviews through analyses and commentary on relevant financial indicators.

- Review key measures and financial tracking.

- Monitor performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and flag variances.

- Participate in review meetings with Project Managers.

- Investigate recurring financial variances and escalate findings.

- Validate proper contract setup controls.

- Support active monitoring of Work at Risk (WAR).

**Audit, Assurance & Customer/Regulatory Responses**

- Respond to customer audit requests and coordinate evidence and formal responses.

- Review and collaborate with project team on finance-specific responses to audit requests.

- Ensure records, calculations, and decision logs are audit-ready and retained.

**Cross-Functional Integration & Escalation Resolution**

- Collaborate with PFOs, Billing, Collections, Cash App, FP&A, Controllership, and business teams.

- Proactively escalate recurring issues.

- Identify and assign time and cost transfers and allocations.

**Finance Business Partnering Activities**

- Foster a strong understanding and consistent application of corporate financial governance and controls.

- Identify and escalate any financial exceptions.

- Support Operations and Business Finance teams in delivering initiatives.

- Support project financial performance monitoring and documentation.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Business
- Project Finance
- Commercial Finance
- Engineering
- Construction
- Professional Services
- Excel
- MS Office
- ERP tools
- PowerBI
- Data Visualization

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