Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Sector is seeking a Principal / Senior Principal Program Cost Control Analyst to support the Business Management organization. Opportunities exist across various divisions and operating units. This position will be located in Linthicum or Annapolis Junction, MD.
The Program Cost Control Analyst 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.
Roles and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Sets up cost control system, monitors and controls costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.
- Support audits and reviews requested by programs, customers, and company management. fact-finding and negotiation support.
- Prepares budgets and schedules for contract work and performs and/or assists in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Ensures adequate funding availability by maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.
- Perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines.
- Support the preparation and coordination of financial forecasting and reporting, Annual Operating Plan and Resource Plan
- Prepare financial inputs to internal reports and presentations(IPRS, Dashboards, BARs, Etc.)
- 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.
Basic Qualifications for Senior Principal level analyst:Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or Business Administration with 10 years of related experience or a Master's degree as described above with 8 years of related experience.Additional Basic Qualifications required for both levels:
- Prior leadership experience - leading a program, project, or personnel.
- Prior related experience with financial analysis and/or reporting
- The willingness and ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.
- US Citizenship.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Industry experience
- Experience with Earned Value Management
- Experience with Microframe Project Manager and SAP
- Familiarity with FAR/DFAR
- US Secret level security clearance or highe
This position reports to Linthicum, MD, USA, however, you are able to work from any of the additional 3 locations listed above.