Sr Principal Program Cost Control Analyst

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · San Diego, CA +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 development programs within the F-35 and F-22 aircraft modernization portfolio. Responsibilities include budget and schedule preparation, financial analysis (funding profiles, cash forecasting, variance analysis), Earned Value Management (EVM) tasks, cost risk analysis, and supporting audits and financial reporting.

What you'd actually do

  1. The PCA will act as the lead on a team of Program Control Analysts supporting Development Programs within the 5th Gen Modernization Portfolio and will report to the Portfolio Business Manager within the Fighter Network Systems (FNS) Operating Unit (OU).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The PCA will monitor costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.
  5. This will include performing perform 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.

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)
  • Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.
  • US Citizenship is required
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance is required.

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • Secret clearance is required
  • US Citizenship is required
  • DoD Secret clearance is required