Principal Program Cost and Schedule Control Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +1 · Business Management Mult-Func

This role is for a Principal Program Cost Control Analyst at Northrop Grumman, supporting the InSight Product Line Management team. The analyst will provide financial support and analysis, track financial forecasts (Awards, Sales, Operating Margin, Cash), support budget development and tracking for IRAD, Capital, and NCTA projects, and prepare financial inputs for reports and presentations. Requires experience with financial systems, forecasting, and tools like COGNOS and SAP.

What you'd actually do

  1. The PCA will interface with the InSight PLM Program Director, Strategy & Capture Managers, Engineering Managers and Business Managers to provide financial support and analysis to meet Product Line requirements.
  2. They will track financial forecasts across annual operating plans (AOP) and long-range strategic plans (LRSP) including major Keyline metrics, such as Awards, Sales, Operating Margin and Cash.
  3. This will require familiarity of Financial Planning (Cognos) and related financial forecasting tools and concepts.
  4. The PCA will also support IRAD, Capital and Non-Contractual Technical Activity (NCTA) budget development and tracking on a biweekly or monthly basis.
  5. The PCA will support audits, proposals and reviews as requested by programs, customers, and company management and prepare financial inputs to internal reports and presentations (IPRS, Dashboards, BARs, Etc.).

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of related professional experience - OR - a Master's degree with 3 years of related professional experience
  • Experience with financial systems including cost performance reporting and analysis
  • Experience with COGNOS, SAP
  • Experience with financial forecasting
  • Strong PC skills - specifically Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, Vlookup, and conditional formatting)
  • Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.

Nice to have

  • Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or related field
  • Experience with ERP2
  • Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and performance measurement baseline concepts and ability to apply them to multiple contracts, CLINs and control accounts.