Sr Principal Budget Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Salt Lake City, UT +1 · Business Management Mult-Func

The Senior Principal Budget Analyst will support financial administration for the Operations organization, focusing on sector strategy, analysis of alternatives, financial oversight for projects, and working with leadership across various locations. Responsibilities include evaluating processes, collecting and interpreting financial data, preparing financial plans, assessing impacts of program awards, preparing reports, analyzing organizational changes, presenting analysis results, comparing actual costs to budgets, analyzing trends, and providing financial oversight for material rates. The role requires experience in cost control, financial analysis, government compliance, overhead rate preparation, financial systems (SAP/S4, Cognos), data mining, and proficiency with tools like MS Excel, Access, Query, Tableau, Power BI, and MS Project.

What you'd actually do

  1. Evaluate processes across the Mission Systems sector with focus on standardization of best practices, processes, tools and procedures
  2. Financial data collection, consolidation, interpretation, and analysis in an effort to maintain affordability and promote the predictability of future trends
  3. Preparing financial plans and assessing impacts from major program awards on facility utilization and future needs
  4. Preparing regular and special-purpose reports
  5. Assessing impacts of organizational and operational changes to ensure impacts are properly evaluated and incorporated into budgets to ensure recoverability

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree plus 8 years related work experience – OR – a Master’s Degree with 6 years of related work experience
  • Experience in cost control, financial analysis, or accounting
  • High level of understanding of Government Compliance
  • Experience in Overhead rate preparation and analysis
  • Experience with financial systems and financial planning software including SAP/S4 and Cognos Resource Budgets
  • Strong Data Mining and Database management background including experience with MS Excel, MS Access, MS Query, Tableau and Power BI
  • Experience with Pivot tables, conditional formatting and slicer tools to provide analysis
  • Experience with MS Project
  • US Citizenship is required

Nice to have

  • Prior operations experience

What the JD emphasized

  • High level of understanding of Government Compliance