Job Description

Cost Analyst

Springfield, VA, USA

Full-time

Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

• Work as a part of an integrated team, interfacing with program offices and leadership.
• Analyze and make effective use of cost, schedule, technical, and programmatic data.
• Build and validate accurate and complete cost models, estimates, and risk analyses.
• Support definition and documentation of technical baseline.
• Assist in the drafting and editing of management and executive level briefings, papers, reports.
• Conduct cost and technical research to improve analytic artifacts.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree with significant quantitative analytic focus.
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience and six (6) years of relevant experience in cost estimating, business/finance/economics, operation research, and/or system engineering.
• Demonstrated experience developing life cycle cost estimates utilizing various methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience in data collection and analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in the development, implementation, and configuration of cost-estimating relationships, models, tools and methodologies.

Desired Skills:

• Master degree with significant quantitative analytic focus.
• Certification in cost analysis field (e.g., CCE/A or DAWIA Level II BCF-CE or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to conduct interviews, research, data analysis to translate technical programmatics into a cohesive written baseline description document.
• Demonstrated experience costing large Information Technology (IT) acquisition programs.
• Working knowledge of major the Intelligence Community systems and strategic initiatives.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Access, Microsoft Project, commercial cost tools, risk tools, statistics/data analysis tools, and EVM analysis tools.
• Working knowledge with Systems Engineering, Acquisition, Budgeting, and EVM processes.
• Demonstrated experience costing large Information Technology (IT) acquisition programs.
• Working knowledge of agile estimating techniques and software sizing methods.
• Demonstrated ability to develop artifacts of the caliber to be consumed by senior audiences.
• Working knowledge and / or experience in new software analytical techniques, schedule realism, cost risk analysis, business case development and return on investment analysis.
• Strong history/experience in customer-service, able to advise on tactical and strategic issues.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; demonstrated ability to develop written artifacts of the caliber to be consumed by working level audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work independently, and as a team member; ability to establish a network of contacts; ability to mentor and guide activities of other team members.
• Demonstrated proficiency in MS Office.