Team Lead - Project Finance

Description

• May provide training and onboarding for project management staff on HNTB project management processes and procedures as needed.
• Models and analyzes gross margin scenarios from initial engagement through final negotiations, offering revenue and cash performance recommendations and enhancement strategies.
• Forecasts and monitors project estimate-at-completion (EAC) by recording potential and actual changes to cost accounts, including change orders, trends, and deviations.
• Provides input on staff recruitment, development, and retention, including performance, compensation reviews, and succession planning. Coordinates schedules and approves timecards. Assists in setting employee objectives, provides client feedback, and coaches/mentors their team.
• Reviews and ensures timely and accurate invoice approval and payment applications according to client terms and requirements, including subcontracting needs. Collaborates with the project manager and cash management team to proactively resolve billing and revenue discrepancies.
• Generates and evaluates standard and ad hoc reports to identify and track potential cost issues and overruns. Investigates budget anomalies, resolves variances, and escalates findings.
• Facilitates or leads an efficient earnings review process with the project team, using GAAP and revenue recognition concepts to analyze project finance performance. Performs project revenue adjustments with general supervision.
• Engages and supports all financial aspects across the entire project lifecycle.
• May offer guidance and mentorship to Project Finance Associates and earlier career Project Analysts, including oversight of day-to-day work. Utilizes PFAs for routine transactional support.
• Escalates project performance that impacts office results to the office finance manager in a timely manner.
• Ensures the accuracy of the PM system by overseeing changes to budget, commitments, forecasts, and expenditures, aligning work plans with client/contract requirements.
• Develops client and subconsultant relationships, ensuring effective client service and efficient subconsultant management.
• Performs client contract review; assessing payment and compensation terms and recommends opportunities for revenue enhancement and positive cash performance.

Requirements

• Ability to comprehend contract terms and conditions, assessing payment and compensation provisions, and recommending opportunities for revenue enhancement and positive cash performance
• Knowledge of project financial management/cost controls
• Advanced data analysis skills in tools such as Excel, HNTB's enterprise reporting system, and HNTB's project management system. Able to develop new, dynamic approaches to processing, interpreting, and analyzing data to drive effective action.
• Ability to read and comprehend contract requirements to identify opportunities for improvement.
• People management experience
• Knowledge of A/E industry
• Knowledge of accounting/financial principles and practices
• Project Management certification, and/or other contracting/project management certifications
• Strong understanding of HNTB internal project finance/accounting processes, able to provide guidance in those areas to other project finance staff and project managers.
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of financial, project accounting/analysis, or related experience, or
• Master's degree in business or engineering
• In lieu of education, 9 years of financial, project accounting/analysis, or related work experience
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills, driving action on data.
• Bachelor's degree in relevant Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or related field
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to multitask, and self-directed.
• Ability to manage ownership of the project finance responsibilities for medium to large projects of increasing risk and complexity.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance