Project Cash Flow & Schedule Modeling Analyst

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Role Summary

We are hiring a Project Cash Flow & Schedule Modeling Analyst to build and maintain the financial and scheduling backbone of a complex, multi-phase project through MVP delivery and Seed-stage planning. This role combines advanced Excel-based project scheduling with detailed budget and cash flow modeling: you will translate a work-breakdown structure into an integrated Gantt chart, map dependencies across workstreams, and tie each payment obligation to the task, milestone, or date that triggers it. This is not a traditional accounting role; it is designed for someone who can reconcile incomplete schedules, contracts, resources, and cost data into one accurate operating model. Ideal candidates come from project finance, project controls, construction, consulting, or professional-services environments and are comfortable independently building structure from incomplete information.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a detailed three-phase budget and cash flow model, with cost roll-ups by workstream and task

• Construct layered, multi-dimensional Gantt charts in Excel, including WBS hierarchy, parent/child tasks, assigned resources, milestones, percentage complete, and cost per task

• Map predecessor and successor dependencies within individual workstreams and across the full project schedule

• Reconcile overlapping timelines, shared resources, and complex subprojects into one integrated operating model

• Identify the exact task, milestone, or date that triggers each payment obligation and map it directly to the project schedule

• Tie fee breakdowns, invoices, contracts, and statements of work to the relevant workstreams, tasks, and deliverables

• Update budgets and schedules as scope, timing, resources, costs, and project assumptions change

• Document model assumptions and maintain a clear reference trail linking each fee or payment line to its source agreement

• Work independently to organize incomplete inputs, surface discrepancies, and flag scheduling or financial risks early

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in project finance, project controls, financial modeling, schedule management, or a comparable analytical role

• Advanced Excel skills, including experience building and maintaining multi-layered Gantt charts with WBS structures, dependencies, resource views, milestone tracking, and task-level costing

• Professional experience in budget or cash flow modeling, ideally for project-based or professional-services engagements

• Strong understanding of project scheduling, task dependencies, resource allocation, and cost tracking

• Ability to reconcile schedules, fee structures, invoices, contracts, and statements of work into one accurate model

• Strong organizational skills across multiple, highly interdependent workstreams

• High attention to detail and a strong standard for financial and schedule accuracy

• Ability to work autonomously with evolving, incomplete, or unstructured information

• Fully fluent in English

• Ability to commit long-term and full-time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in construction, consulting, or another complex multi-workstream project environment

• Experience mapping contractual payment terms to project milestones and deliverables

• Experience working with statements of work, service orders, fee schedules, and contracted deliverables

• Experience integrating multiple subproject schedules into a consolidated master schedule

• Familiarity with advanced Excel scheduling add-ins or comparable project modeling tools

Tools & Technologies

• Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Excel-based Gantt chart tools or add-ins, project scheduling tools, statements of work (SOWs), fee schedules, invoice records, contract documentation

Core Competencies

• Strong systems thinker who connects schedules, costs, contracts, and deliverables

• Highly organized across complex and interdependent workstreams

• Detail-driven with strong financial and scheduling judgment

• Comfortable building structure from incomplete information

• Proactive in identifying discrepancies, dependencies, and delivery risks

• Clear and disciplined in documentation and model maintenance

What We Offer

• Best salaries in the industry

• Work from anywhere permanently

• Opportunities for growth and advancement

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment

• A warm, people-first company culture

• Get paid in your currency of choice

• Additional benefits

This is a full-time, long-term role, dedicated exclusively to one of our clients. All roles at Persona are 100% work-from-anywhere. Once hired, we will carefully match you to a client company that best suits your career background, skills, and goals.