Project Analyst

About the Role

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) is seeking a Project Analyst to support project tracking, deliverable coordination, documentation management, hours reporting, and project financial tracking. The Project Analyst will work closely with project managers, technical teams, finance, operations, and other stakeholders to ensure project activities are organized, documented, tracked, and completed on time. This is a fully onsite position in Arlington, VA.

Key Responsibilities

• Track project deliverables, milestones, action items, deadlines, dependencies, and outstanding items.
• Maintain project trackers, task lists, status logs, deliverable schedules, and follow-up reports.
• Coordinate with project managers, team leads, technical staff, finance, operations, and stakeholders to collect updates and confirm task completion.
• Follow up regularly and professionally with internal stakeholders to ensure assigned actions, documents, approvals, and deliverables are completed on time.
• Track the status of project documents, reports, meeting materials, submission packages, and approvals.
• Assist with organizing, formatting, reviewing, routing, and tracking project documents and deliverable submissions.
• Maintain organized project folders, records, spreadsheets, and documentation repositories.
• Support document version control, naming conventions, file organization, and document status tracking.
• Assist with preparing project status reports, dashboards, briefing materials, meeting notes, action item logs, and management updates.
• Attend project meetings, capture notes, document decisions, track action items, and distribute follow-up summaries.
• Monitor upcoming deadlines and proactively flag missing information, incomplete documents, overdue items, project risks, or blockers.
• Track project hours, labor reporting, timesheet-related items, staff assignments, and labor category information.
• Support tracking of project financial items, including budgets, burn rates, expenses, invoices, purchase requests, and funding information.
• Coordinate with finance and project management staff to identify discrepancies in hours, costs, billing, or project financial records.
• Assist with reconciling project tracking information across spreadsheets, reports, project management tools, and financial records.
• Support internal project controls, reporting processes, compliance tracking, administrative project activities, and process improvements.
• Help ensure project information is accurate, current, complete, and available to project leadership.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Project Management, Communications, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Recent college graduates are encouraged to apply.
• 0-2+ years of experience in project coordination, project analysis, business operations, finance support, administrative project support, or a related role.
• Must be able to work fully onsite in Arlington, VA.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and follow-through.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and open action items.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate across teams and follow up persistently, professionally, and respectfully.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Ability to maintain spreadsheets, trackers, reports, project documentation, and financial records.
• Ability to identify missing, incomplete, inconsistent, or inaccurate information.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, ask questions when needed, and keep tasks moving.
• Dependable, responsive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced onsite office environment.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Desired Skills

• Internship, academic, or professional experience related to project management, business operations, finance, government contracting, administration, or data tracking.
• Experience supporting project managers, finance teams, operations teams, or contract management teams.
• Familiarity with project tracking tools, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar systems.
• Experience tracking project hours, labor categories, budgets, invoices, expenses, or other financial items.
• Strong Excel skills, including formulas, filters, formatting, data validation, and pivot tables.
• Experience preparing status reports, dashboards, meeting notes, summaries, or briefing materials.
• Familiarity with contract deliverables, project controls, compliance documentation, or reporting requirements.
• Ability to learn new systems, processes, and reporting requirements quickly.
• Strong sense of ownership and willingness to follow up until tasks are complete.

Additional Information

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be a US Citizen.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check.
• This position is fully on-site in Arlington, VA.
• This is a full-time W2 position.