Senior Defense Cost Analyst

3 weeks ago

Arlington, Virginia, United States Kalman & Company, Inc. Full time
Job Description

Kalman & Company, Inc. is seeking a highly motivated and performance-driven individual to work closely with our USMC and DHS clients. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills, as well as the ability to contribute to significant studies in our portfolio. This position requires on-site meeting attendance at corporate and/or client locations in the Arlington, VA area several times a month.

A career with Kalman & Company, Inc. is both rewarding and challenging. Our clients require skilled, hardworking, and innovative support service providers who can meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced workplace. As a Kalman Analyst, you will work with military leaders, engineers, developers, technicians, logisticians, and financial managers to collect, analyze, and communicate information that will help ensure the success of programs critical to the US Department of Defense and our allies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and maintenance of cost, affordability, and schedule analysis to support the acquisition of emerging USMC and DHS capabilities.
  • Coordinate with stakeholders to collect and communicate information to ensure the success of priority programs.
  • Conduct planning analyses, cost as an independent variable analysis, and Earned Value Management (EVM) analyses, implement estimating methodologies, and analyze data to support cost models build efforts.
  • Document and defend cost analyses, including Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs), Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) Section C, Business Case Analyses (BCAs), Economic Analyses (EAs), Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), cost/risk uncertainty analysis, trend/variance analysis, and Program Objective Memoranda (POM) budget submissions.
  • Develop Acquisition Strategies and other acquisition-related documentation to support program milestone decisions and gate reviews.
  • Develop cost databases, cost estimating relationships, and cost factors.
  • Build and defend budget requirements.
  • Respond to congressional requests for information.
  • Forecast future funding needs.
  • Evaluate contracting courses of action.
  • Assess sustainment costs associated with acquisition decisions.
  • Lead the preparation of briefing materials and other communications packages and present analysis results to program leadership and outside agencies/organizations.
  • Work autonomously and as part of a team to meet organizational and project goals.
  • Possess a strong understanding of USMC and DHS acquisition processes.
  • Understand the customer mission.
  • Address business challenges with creative problem solving.

Requirements:

  • US Citizenship is required.
  • Government acquisition program experience is required.
  • Bachelor's Degree in any field and successful completion of three semester hours of calculus and twenty-one semester hours in operations research, economics, math, chemistry, physics, or other sciences where the utilization of advanced math skills in geometry, trigonometry, statistics, probability, or quantitative analyses.
  • Seven or more years of DoD/DHS Cost Estimating, Integrated Program Management, EVM, and/or Scheduling experience.
  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and uncertainty/risk software packages (Crystal Ball, @Risk, and/or ACEIT).
  • Ability to lead detail-oriented tasks and multi-task under minimal supervision.
  • Excellent analysis skills and experience working with large data sets.
  • Experience supporting BCAs, AoAs, EAs, or other analytics studies.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Active Secret Clearance or higher.
  • Experience supporting large-scale DoD and DHS IT or ERP programs.
  • Proficient with ACEIT.
  • Certification in cost estimation, Integrated Program Management, and/or EVM by a recognized professional society or educational organization (CCEA, DAWIA level II, AACE EVP, PMI, PMP, etc.).

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