Finance Project Controller
Are you a detail-driven finance professional with a passion for project oversight? Check out our job posting below!
Client Overview: Our client is an established global company offering technology-driven solutions across a range of industries. Their work supports operational efficiency and enhances the customer experience through innovation and reliable service.
Job title: Finance Project Controller
Mission: The Finance Project Controller will be a strategic partner for the North America Business. The role will encompass providing insightful financial guidance on both project-based and after sales activities, including identifying and alerting stakeholders to potential risks and opportunities, actively participating in finance-related improvements to enhance efficiency. You will be pivotal in driving margin analysis and cost reporting for projects, while interfacing with cross-functional stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Revenue & Margin Management:
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of monthly revenue and cost recognition for both projects and after sales.
• Compile and analyze monthly sales and margin reports, supporting month-end and year-end close activities.
• Conduct detailed margin analysis and report findings to management.
Project & Cost Controlling:
• Support multiple mid-sized or large-scale projects with cost tracking, forecasting, and profitability analysis.
• Partner with PMO or Technical Supervisors to investigate project variances and cost overruns.
• Support Sales team in the early stages oft he project
• Recommend corrective actions — whether internal efficiency improvements or recoverable change orders — and coordinate with Sales and PMO for resolution.
• Support timely billing by ensuring project documentation is complete and up-to-date.
• Work with HR and I&S to ensure consistent labor tracking and timesheet compliance across the organization.
Project Lifecycle Support:
• Monitor and manage un-billed revenue issues, collaborating with PMs to align on contract status, change orders, and billing milestones.
• Help implement and enforce billing procedures and timelines, ensuring Finance receives accurate inputs from the PMO.
Qualifications and Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• 5–7 years of relevant experience in accounting, project controlling, and margin analysis.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and project-based revenue recognition.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with SAP.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams under tight deadlines.
• Independent and analytical thinker who can translate financial data into actionable insights.
Other information: Candidate must show proof of US citizenship/visa/alien registration. No sponsorship will be offered for this role.
- Department
- Finance, Accounting and Taxes
- Locations
- Pittsburgh
- Remote status
- Hybrid
Pittsburgh
About Consea America
Consea America is a US-based leading Executive Search firm providing high-quality solutions in search and selection of Middle to Top Management.
We operate across many industries including Automotive and Manufacturing, Fashion & Retail, Consumer Goods, and Health Care industries boasting long-term relationships both with clients and candidates.
Consea America is part of Consea Group.
At Consea, we focus on relationships – with each other, our clients, and our candidates - in fact, serving others is one of our core values. We support open communication and recognize that giving constructive criticism can be even harder than receiving it. We appreciate the fearless and the passionate who force us to be better. Everything we do sits on a pillar of diversity - diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas drive innovation and make us successful. Consea is committed to a recruitment process that results in hiring the best applicants. Consea’s Delivery Team will be responsible for sourcing, pre-selecting, pre-screen, interview, and offer.
Consea promotes equal opportunity through affirmative action in employment. Discrimination is prohibited on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, and qualified veteran status. Equal opportunity results when all applicants are treated consistently at every stage of recruitment.
Finance Project Controller
Are you a detail-driven finance professional with a passion for project oversight? Check out our job posting below!
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