Principal Program Cost Control Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Sunnyvale, CA +4 · Business Management Mult-Func

Principal Program Cost Control Analyst to support/lead cost reporting for major defense programs, providing financial support and analysis, preparing budgets and schedules, monitoring costs and schedules using Earned Value Management (EVM), and performing financial analysis such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis.

What you'd actually do

  1. The PCA will interface with the program managers, functional management, cost account managers (CAMs) and business managers to provide financial support and analysis to meet program requirements.
  2. They will prepare budgets and schedules for contract work and assist in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis.
  3. The PCA will monitor costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.
  4. This will include performing perform Earned Value Metric (EVM) tasks such as Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budget baseline, cost risk analysis/ assessment and visibility reports, development, and analysis of estimates to complete.
  5. The PCA will perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines, including maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.

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 Earned Value Management and performance measurement baseline concepts
  • Strong PC skills - specifically Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, Vlookup, and conditional formatting)
  • US Citizenship required
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret level security clearance.

Nice to have

  • Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or related field
  • Experience with COBRA, COGNOS, SAP
  • Current, active U.S. Government Secret level security clearance

What the JD emphasized

  • cost schedule control system
  • Earned Value Management
  • EVM