Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Cost Analysts — sometimes titled Project Financial Analysts — who own the forward view of project money: EAC/ETC forecasts, earned value, cash flow curves, and cost reports that surface problems while they are still cheap. Forecast accuracy + reporting rigor verified with references.
A structured process for the cost analysis hire — whether your org titles it Cost Analyst or Project Financial Analyst, the job is the same: an honest forecast, early.
30-minute call. Align on portfolio scale, cost stack (Ecosys, PRISM, SAP, Procore, Power BI), forecast cadence, reporting audience, and start date.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Cost Analysts with sector-matched capital project history. References from controls managers and finance leads included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee.
Every analyst has verified cost analysis on live construction or capital programs — commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts — not corporate FP&A relabeled.
Reference-verified EAC/ETC ownership — we ask prior managers how early their forecasts flagged the overrun, and whether leadership believed them.
Reference-verified reporting craft — cash flow curves, variance narratives, and Power BI dashboards that drove decisions rather than filling a deck.
Reference-verified EAC/ETC development with clean bridges from budget through commitments and trends.
Reference-verified EVM reporting — CPI/SPI, variance analysis, and progress-based cost performance.
Reference-verified cash flow curves and spend projections that finance and treasury teams planned against.
Reference-verified trend logs, change order cost tracking, and contingency drawdown reporting.
Advanced Excel plus Power BI, and the cost stack you run — Ecosys, PRISM, Unifier, SAP, or CMiC as fits.
Reference-verified reconciliation between controls forecasts and accounting actuals — the Project Financial Analyst side of the job.
We’ll help scope the role on the call — forecast cadence, systems, finance vs controls reporting line.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks. Total time to placement is typically 3–4 weeks.
In most US markets, base salaries run $75k–$105k depending on experience and sector. Hyperscale data center and semiconductor programs push $105k–$125k for analysts with earned value depth and Power BI fluency. Senior or lead analysts on major programs can reach $130k+.
Functionally, yes — the titles are interchangeable in most AEC organizations. Cost Analyst is the controls-side title; Project Financial Analyst is common where the role reports into finance and reconciles forecasts to accounting actuals. We shortlist for the work, not the title.
A Project Accountant owns the books — billing, job cost, WIP. A Cost Analyst owns the forward view — forecasts, earned value, cash flow. A Cost Engineer sits closer to the technical scope. We scope the right mix on the call.
Yes. Every placement carries a replacement guarantee.
Yes. Analysts plus cost engineers under a Cost Manager route through embedded recruiting or RPO. Single hires run through recruiting support.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll review the Cost Analyst role — or Project Financial Analyst, if that’s your title for it — systems stack, and forecast cadence, then start sourcing.
