Program Cost Control Analyst - Finance Level 3 or 4

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Dulles, VA +1 · Business Management Mult-Func

Program Cost Control Analyst for Northrop Grumman's Space Sector, responsible for managing budgets, schedules, and financial analyses for government contracts. Requires a Top Secret security clearance and experience in financial analysis and reporting. The role involves setting up cost control systems, supporting audits, performing variance analysis, and managing Earned Value Metrics (EVM).

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 5 years of professional experience or Master's degree with 3 years of professional experience or PhD with 1 year of professional experience (or equivalent experience)
  • Active U.S. Government Top-Secret security clearance
  • Experience with financial analysis or reporting
  • Experience with MS Office Suite

Nice to have

  • 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
  • SCI approval/access