Job Details
Job Title
Project Planning & Control Analyst - Team Lead
Department
Finance & Accounting
Business Unit / Division
Corporate Services
Reports To
Location
Job Level
About GP Strategies
GP Strategies is a global leader in talent transformation, dedicated to empowering organizations to unlock their full potential. We help businesses enhance workforce performance and achieve strategic goals through innovative, technology-enabled learning solutions. With a proven track record of supporting over 6,000 global organizations worldwide, we combine human expertise with AI-driven insights to deliver customized strategies that upskill talent, drive technology adoption, and optimize critical processes. Our mission is to create a lasting impact by equipping organizations with the strategy, skills, and tools needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Role Purpose
The PPCA Team Lead is a hands-on project finance role with additional team leadership responsibilities. The individual is accountable for managing the financial performance of a portfolio of projects directly while also providing day-to-day functional leadership, guidance, and oversight to PPCA analysts.
This role combines delivery and leadership: the Team Lead personally performs core PPCA activities on assigned projects (setup, forecasting, cost control, billing, and close) while ensuring consistent standards, timely outputs, and strong financial governance across the wider team.
The role partners closely with Service Delivery and the wider Finance organisation (Finance Management Office, Project Finance Office, and Finance Service Centre) to enable operational success while safeguarding financial integrity, compliance, and margin outcomes.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide day-to-day functional leadership to PPCA analysts, including work allocation, prioritisation, and workflow coordination.
- Review and quality-check key PPCA outputs prepared by the team to ensure consistency, accuracy, and adherence to PFO standards.
- Act as first escalation point for complex or non-standard project finance issues; resolve or escalate appropriately.
- Support onboarding, training, and coaching of PPCA team members; share best practices and institutional knowledge.
- Balance personal project workload with leadership duties to ensure delivery commitments are met.
- Primary point of contact for project finances, controlling activities to meet internal and customer expectations.
- Responsible for maintaining relationships across client-facing functional teams and the FMO, and act as a point of liaison.
- Provide administrative and procedural support to Service Delivery teams from a financial perspective regarding cost control, project budgets, and reporting.
- Initiate project setup process using the Project Costing Form/App and review setup for accuracy
- Review and approve Project Purchase Requisitions
- Support supplier cost analysis and negotiation
Project Planning
Execution
- Receipting of subcontractor cost in line with period of performance
- Process financial adjustments
- Review output of Service Delivery activity for Revenue, Cost recognition, and Billing
- Initiate revenue and invoice intake and provide backup as required
- Review, resolve issues and approve draft invoices before customer submission
Monitoring and Control
- Review and re-baseline budgets as required by company policy
- Manage change orders and project modifications
- Manage project resource changes
- Support project governance by utilizing exception reporting and completing the appropriate actions
- Provide financial analysis to support margin optimization
- Manage project reconciliation and close procedure
- Support audit process
- Work with regional process to manage unapplied cash
- Support AR and EUB reviews
- Support governance of Purchase Order receipting, follow-up on aged receipts with no invoice
- Support PFO-owned Account Recs.
- Support ad-hoc/bespoke reporting/analysis from Service Delivery
- Support client meetings as required
Additional responsibilities
What Success Looks Like
Success means the Team Lead consistently delivers high-quality PPCA outputs on their own projects while elevating the performance of the wider team. Projects are well controlled, invoices are accurate and timely, risks are identified early, and standards are applied consistently. The Team Lead is recognised as both a reliable hands-on analyst and a trusted escalation point for Service Delivery and Finance leadership.
Candidate Profile
Experience & Capability
- Experience acting as a senior analyst, mentor, or team lead, with responsibility for reviewing work and supporting others.
- Experience in project finance, project accounting, or financial control within a service, consulting, or project based environment.
- Proven ability to manage project budgets, cost tracking, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Comfortable acting as the primary financial liaison for operational or client facing teams.
- Experience reviewing and approving purchase requisitions, supplier costs, and subcontractor invoices.
- Strong background in supporting invoicing cycles, revenue recognition, and financial adjustments.
- Familiarity with project governance processes, change control, and project close‑out procedures.
- Exposure audits, AR processes, and reconciliation activities.
Technical Strength
- Proficient in project costing tools, financial systems, or ERP platforms (e.g., Oracle Cloud, SAP, or similar).
- Strong Excel capability, including data analysis, reconciliation, and financial modelling.
- Understanding revenue and cost recognition principles in a project based environment.
- Ability to interpret financial data, identify variances, and provide actionable insights.
- Skilled in exceptional reporting, margin analysis, and financial controls.
- Comfortable working with purchase orders, receipting processes, and supplier financial documentation
Leadership and Mindset Behaviours
- Leads by example through strong personal delivery and technical credibility.
- Demonstrates ownership, accountability, and sound judgement.
- Collaborates effectively across Finance and Service Delivery teams.
- Drives continuous improvement while maintaining operational discipline.
- Detail driven, accurate, and committed to maintaining high financial integrity.
- Confident communicator who builds strong relationships across finance and operational teams.
- Calm under pressure, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and resolve issues quickly.
- Analytical thinker who seeks root causes, not just symptoms, and recommends improvements.
- Collaborative and service-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Adaptable, curious, and open to continuous learning and process improvement.
Why Join
You will be part of a Finance and Accounting function evolving into a strategic growth engine, with exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide initiatives under the OneGP model.
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Company
GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers. By delivering award-winning learning and development solutions, we help organizations transform through their people and achieve meaningful change. GP Strategies has delivered our innovative consulting, learning services, and talent technology solutions to over 6,000 organizations globally.
From our global experience working across thousands of projects and initiatives over the past 55 years, we've learned that relationships, business, work, innovation, strategy, and transformation are all about people. And, to put it simply, GP Strategies is about our people - an extensive global network of learning experts. Additional information can be found at www.gpstrategies.com.
With more than 4000 employees in over 30 countries, diversity at GP Strategies is second nature! Beyond our locations, our culture focuses on performance and revolves around respect, fairness, and working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We support our People, no matter who they are or where they are from, because we all have valuable and unique perspectives and approaches. That's how great ideas are born, which enable us to work smarter.
GP Strategies is committed and proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other federally protected class.