Sr Principal Program Cost Control Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Business Management Mult-Func

This role is for a Senior Principal Program Cost Control Analyst at Northrop Grumman, focusing on financial management and Earned Value Management (EVM) for defense programs. The responsibilities include budget development, cost tracking, financial analysis, and reporting to ensure contracts meet financial and government guidelines. The role requires experience with financial systems, EVM concepts, and strong Excel skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. The PCA will interface with the senior directors, 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 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 8 years of related professional experience - OR - a Master's degree with 6 years of related professional experience
  • 12 years of applied experience in lieu of degree requirement
  • 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)
  • Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time
  • US Citizenship is required

Nice to have

  • Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or related field
  • Experience with COBRA, COGNOS, SAP