Senior Pricing and Project Control Analyst (GovCon)

GovCon ERP experience required (Unanet, Costpoint, or similar)

Overview

A mid-size government contractor is seeking a Senior Pricing and Project Control Analyst to support project financial management, proposal pricing, and operational planning. This role blends project setup, financial tracking, and cost/pricing development for bids, requiring strong analytical capability and deep familiarity with government contracting standards.

Project Control Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain project structures in a GovCon ERP system (Unanet, Costpoint, or comparable), aligning project attributes with contract requirements and internal guidelines.
• Build project elements such as funding lines, rate configurations, billing setups, and labor categories to support accurate budgeting and charging.
• Oversee workforce and charge-code assignments to ensure employees and vendors have timely access to appropriate project codes.
• Manage key financial data tables (rates, workforce structures, funding updates) to maintain clean, auditable records.
• Validate revenue recognition results, monitor cost postings, and troubleshoot discrepancies tied to system setup or charging errors.
• Reconcile actuals across labor, materials, ODCs, and travel, ensuring alignment with projections and contractual expectations.
• Track weekly charging behavior, identify unusual variances, and provide corrective guidance where needed.
• Support leadership with targeted financial and operational analysis, including burn rate updates and performance snapshots.
• Contribute to monthly financial close activities, including variance explanations and project-level reporting deliverables.

Pricing Responsibilities

• Develop cost and price submissions for RFPs, ensuring compliance with FAR/DFARS and internal review processes.
• Coordinate closely with capture, contracts, operations, finance, and proposal teams to align pricing with the technical and management approach.
• Present pricing options, risks, and strategy recommendations to senior stakeholders, highlighting key financial drivers.
• Conduct market and competitor research to benchmark cost inputs, rate assumptions, and pricing trends.
• Perform profitability and margin analysis to support internal bid/no-bid and pricing strategy discussions.
• Create, refine, and maintain Excel-based pricing models to support what-if analysis and scenario comparisons.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working in a GovCon ERP (Unanet, Costpoint, JAMIS, or similar).
• 3+ years of project control or project setup experience supporting government contracts.
• 3+ years of advanced Excel use (modeling, nested formulas, pivot tables).
• 5+ years supporting or working within the government contracting industry.
• 2+ years of pricing experience supporting proposals or cost volumes.
• Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of directly relevant experience.