Program Cost Control Analyst - Finance

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Gilbert, AZ +2 · Business Management Mult-Func

This role is a Program Cost Control Analyst within the finance department of Northrop Grumman's Space Sector. The primary responsibilities include preparing budgets and schedules, performing financial analyses (funding profiles, sales outlooks, cash forecasting, variance analysis), managing expenditures, and ensuring adequate funding. The role also involves setting up and monitoring cost control systems, supporting audits, performing Earned Value Management (EVM) tasks such as WBS development, budget baselining, cost risk analysis, and developing estimates to complete. A Top Secret security clearance is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set up cost control system, monitor and control costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system
  2. Support audits and reviews requested by programs, customers, and company management, fact-finding and negotiation support
  3. Perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines
  4. 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

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of professional experience – OR – Master’s degree with 1 years of professional experience. Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Top-Secret security clearance
  • Experience with financial analysis or reporting
  • Experience with MS Office Suite

Nice to have

  • Active Top-Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance at time of application
  • Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Business Administration
  • Defense industry experience
  • Earned Value Management (EVM) experience
  • Program Cost Control experience
  • Experience with FAR/DFAR
  • Experience with Costpoint, Cobra, Primavera or SAP

What the JD emphasized

  • Top Secret security clearance
  • Earned Value Metric (EVM)
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • budget baseline
  • cost risk analysis
  • estimates to complete