The Analyst will provide financial planning, forecasting, and reporting support for programs within the SATCOM OU. This role partners with Program Management and Business Management to ensure accurate budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis that support business decisions. In addition, this position will be responsible for Cost Modeling on new business captures that will require developing, maintaining, and analyzing cost models to support pricing, proposals, and business decisions. This role partners with Program Management, Business Management, Engineering, and Capture/Proposal teams to quantify cost drivers, assess scenarios, and ensure that estimates and bids are accurate, defensible, and aligned with financial objectives.
This position will support intercompany programs and the site General Manager.
This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.
Your Role and Impact
Set up cost control system, monitor and control costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system
Support audits and reviews requested by programs, customers, and company management, fact-finding and negotiation support
Perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines
Perform Earned Value Metric (EVM) tasks including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budget baseline, cost risk analysis/ assessment and visibility reports, development and analysis of estimates to complete
Build and maintain cost models for programs, proposals, and internal business cases (labor, material, ODC, overhead, and fees).
Analyze cost drivers and sensitivities, and provide scenario analysis (e.g., “what if” assessments for scope, schedule, staffing).
Build and maintain cost models for programs, proposals, and internal business cases (labor, material, ODC, overhead, and fees).
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve estimating accuracy and continuous improvement of cost and cash modeling methodologies
Other duties as assigned
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Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 6 years of professional experience – OR – PhD with 4 years of professional experience
Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree
No clearance required to start
Experience with financial analysis or reporting
Experience with MS Office Suite
Preferred Qualifications
Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Business Administration
Defense industry experience
Program Cost Control experience
Experience with FAR/DFAR
Experience with Costpoint, Cobra, Cognos, Primavera, S4 Hana or SAP
Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Proposals, Cash Flow Models
Experience as Lead Program Cost Control Analyst
Understanding of Indirect Rate application
Experience with various contract types, such as FFP, FPAF, T&M, OTA
Earned Value Management (EVM) experience
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Primary Level Salary Range: $117,500.00 - $176,300.00
The above salary range represents a general guideline; however, Northrop Grumman considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.
Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
The application period for the job is estimated to be 20 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.
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