# Project Financial Advisor **Company**: WSP **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $73,000-$95,000 **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/94082?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c80a0274-f9b ## Description We are seeking a Project Financial Advisor to act as a trusted finance partner to project delivery teams, ensuring alignment of financial outcomes with enterprise objectives. The Project Financial Advisor (PFA) plays a critical role across the entire project lifecycle, including project budget setup review, revenue recognition, and timeline project financial reviews, by delivering disciplined financial stewardship and analysis. **Key Responsibilities:** - 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, rate selection, and pricing tool development inputs - Advise on project financial planning and risk identification - Support the review of category rates and labor structures to help maintain project recoverability and financial performance - Review labor structures to identify and flag 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 to support financial performance - Support the assessment of financial impact of subcontracts to ensure alignment with prime contract and profitability objectives **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 and provide support in identifying reasons for variability in project margins - Monitor the project-level forecast cycle for assigned projects - Review project budgets and forecasts to support the Project Manager in validating assumptions and financial accuracy - Monitor mitigation action plans as directed by the Project Manager and report progress to the PFA Manager **Project/Portfolio Performance Management:** - Contribute to project performance reviews through analyses and commentary on relevant financial indicators - Review key measures and financial tracking, including client-specific reporting requests - Monitor performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and flag variances promptly to Finance Business Partners with recommended corrective actions **Audit, Assurance & Customer/Regulatory Responses:** - 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 - Ensure records, calculations, and decision logs are audit-ready and retained per policy **Cross-Functional Integration & Escalation Resolution:** - Collaborate with PFOs, Billing, Collections, Cash App, FP&A, Controllership, and business teams to address escalations - Proactively escalate recurring issues through management to contribute to process improvement initiatives that enhance financial outcomes **Finance Business Partnering Activities:** - Foster a strong understanding and consistent application of corporate financial governance and controls across the business - Identify and escalate any financial exceptions to PFA Manager to resolve issues at source to maintain project integrity **Requirements:** - Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, or closely-related discipline - 1 to 3 years of project finance or commercial finance experience in engineering, construction, or professional services - Suitable qualifications/accreditations in Accounting/Finance/Business relevant to the jurisdiction(s) you are operating within - Proficiency expectation is mostly Developing / Working, with some Practiced capability in recurring activities - Solid grasp of project accounting, financial reporting, Estimate at Completion / Estimate to Complete (EAC/ETC) forecasting processes, and margin analysis - Experience in commercial support - Demonstrated experience supporting a multi-project portfolio with hands-on forecasting and reporting accountability - Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in MS Office and ERP tools - Experience with PowerBI or other data visualization tools **Benefits:** - Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career - Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life - Retirement savings - Paid sick leave - Paid vacation - Paid parental leave - Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings **Compensation:** - Expected Salary: $73,000-$95,000 ## Skills ### Required - Accounting - Business - Project Finance - Commercial Finance - Excel - MS Office - ERP tools - PowerBI ### Nice to have - Data visualization tools --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/94082?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)