Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst needed in Miramar FL area! Must have strong financial modeling experience!

Job Description

The Financial Analyst (Project Analyst) supports the Product Construction team by bringing financial discipline, consistent reporting, and a strong governance structure to project portfolios. This role partners closely with Project Managers, Finance, Procurement, and leadership to maintain accurate financial data, monitor portfolio health, and deliver clear, actionable insights that enable timely decision-making. The position is ideal for an analytical, detail-oriented professional who is financially fluent and comfortable working across multiple systems, teams, and ambiguous situations.

Responsibilities

• Support project financial planning, including budget development, budget tracking, forecasting, variance analysis, and estimate-at-completion updates.
• Monitor actuals, commitments, purchase orders, invoices, labor spend, accruals, resource costs, and forecasted spend across assigned projects and portfolios.
• Prepare financial reports, budget health summaries, reconciliations, and risk callouts for Project Managers and leadership.
• Identify budget risks, data gaps, overruns, and reconciliation issues, and escalate them with clear context and recommendations.
• Build and maintain portfolio dashboards, scorecards, budget summaries, trackers, and reporting packages using Power BI, Excel, and related tools.
• Consolidate project, program, and system data into reliable reporting views and a single, usable source of truth.
• Analyze trends in spend, forecasts, resource utilization, project performance, and overall portfolio health.
• Translate fragmented and complex data into concise insights, decision points, and leadership-ready updates.
• Validate financial and project data across Oracle Fusion, JDE, Power BI, Excel, Workfront, Jira, SharePoint, and related systems.
• Maintain budget trackers, financial workbooks, project repositories, templates, and governance documentation to support consistent processes.
• Support change requests by assessing budget impacts, documenting financial implications, and updating forecasts as needed.
• Assist with risk and issue tracking, including dependencies, action items, and reporting cadences for project and portfolio reviews.
• Improve data quality, reporting accuracy, repeatability, and audit readiness through practical process improvements and controls.
• Serve as a financial and governance support partner for Project Managers across active portfolios, helping them understand and act on financial information.
• Partner with Program Managers, Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and leadership to resolve financial and reporting issues and to align on portfolio priorities.
• Gather, reconcile, and validate financial and operational inputs across teams and systems with varying levels of data maturity.
• Support financial reviews, leadership presentations, project health reviews, and stakeholder follow-up by preparing materials and providing analytical insights.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Analytics, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in project financials, portfolio administration, project controls, reporting, or financial analysis.
• Strong financial analysis skills with hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost tracking, reconciliations, or financial reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, lookups, data structuring, data analysis, and data validation.
• Proven ability to gather, reconcile, and validate data across multiple teams and systems.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and project data and translate it into actionable insights.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to Project Managers, Finance, technical teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Strong problem-solving, prioritization, and follow-up skills to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• High level of organization, accuracy, and attention to detail when working with financial data and documentation.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working in PMO, portfolio governance, Mission Control, or enterprise project environments.
• Familiarity with Oracle Fusion, JDE, SAP, Workfront, Jira, SharePoint, Power BI, or similar enterprise tools and platforms.
• Exposure to CAPEX projects, capital requests, procurement processes, purchase orders, invoices, or financial reconciliations.
• Experience collaborating with Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and project delivery teams.
• Ability to turn ambiguous inputs and incomplete data into structured analysis, reporting, and clear follow-up actions.
• Ability to build trust with Project Managers by making financial information easier to understand and act upon.
• Capability to balance hands-on financial detail with a portfolio-level view of trends, risks, and key decisions.
• Comfort working across multiple systems and tools while adapting to different levels of data maturity and process structure.

Work Environment

This position is based in the Miramar area, at a location that is not within the port. The role involves frequent interaction with cross-functional teams such as Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, and project delivery groups. You will work extensively with financial and project management technologies, including Excel, Power BI, Oracle Fusion, JDE, SAP, Workfront, Jira, and SharePoint. The environment emphasizes collaboration, structured governance, and data-driven decision-making, with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency, and continuous improvement in financial reporting and portfolio management.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Miramar, FL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $38.00 - $40.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Miramar,FL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 8, 2026.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.