Cost Analyst

Turner Construction Company
Turner Construction Company

IT

Toledo, OH, USA

Posted on Sep 11, 2026

Position Description: Prepare financial analyses, reports, and audit forecasts to confirm costs and effectively validate forecast financial outcome of assigned projects.

Reports to:When assigned to and located at a specific project, responsible to the Project Engineer or Project Manager, reports to the Senior Cost Analyst.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Assess project financial risks and report project plan to mitigate risks.
  • Accumulate, audit, and correlate information from all sources to produce required cost reports such as Budget Analysis Reports (BARs), special studies, and Cost-audited BARs (CABs); prepare interpretive analysis as required.
    • Know project contract with Owner and Turner’s contractual rights.
    • Work with project accounting to ensure costs are posted correctly to ledger.
    • Audit budget report for accuracy and ensure it reflects all costs posted to ledger.
    • Provide budget audit findings and ensure project makes all corrections.
    • Analyze current budget reports, holds, and unboughts.
  • Audit project forecast of General Conditions, General Requirements, staff and labor projections to accurately forecast costs.
  • Audit project re-forecasted projections and studies as project conditions change.
  • Participate in Operations Review Meetings (ORMs) with senior business unit management.
  • Maintain complete knowledge of all general contract documents and relationship of job estimate to contract documents.
  • Train and develop new Costs Analysts and project staff.
  • Visit jobsites, evaluate project progress and conditions, and review findings with project management.
  • Review current field conditions in trades and evaluate costs, Superintendent’s Instruction to Subcontractors (SISs), exposures, claims and recoveries.
  • Act as bridge between Accounting and field staff.
  • Monitor and understand project cash position.
  • Participate in Payment Application creation and understand connection with Budget Report.
  • Understand and audit SAP forecasting workbenches.
  • Ensure proper contract review, Contract Authorization (CA), and Peckar & Abramson checklist to understand business deal, assumed contractual risks, and potential earnings impact.
  • Establish Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Element for allocation of costs, work with Engineering and Finance.
  • Prepare final Cost Audited Budget Analysis Report (CAB), reconcile to final contract value and cost.
  • Validate final revenue before final bill submission.
  • Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.

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