Sr Principal Program Cost Control Analyst

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

This role is for a Senior Principal Program Cost Control Analyst at Northrop Grumman, focusing on financial support and analysis for defense programs. Responsibilities include preparing budgets and schedules, performing Earned Value Management (EVM) tasks, cost risk analysis, and ensuring compliance with government cost control guidelines. The role requires experience with financial systems, cost performance reporting, and performance measurement baselines.

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 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 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 8 years of related professional experience - OR - a Master's degree with 6 years of related professional experience
  • Experience with financial systems including cost performance reporting and analysis
  • Experience with Earned Value and performance measurement baseline concepts and ability to apply them to multiple contracts, CLINs and control accounts.
  • Strong PC skills - specifically Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, Vlookup, and conditional formatting)
  • US Citizenship is required
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a US Government security Secret clearance

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • validated cost schedule control system
  • Earned Value Metric (EVM) tasks
  • cost risk analysis/ assessment
  • government cost control guidelines