Senior Defense Cost Analyst

3 weeks ago

Arlington, Virginia, United States Kalman & Company, Inc. Full time
Job Title: Senior Defense Cost Analyst

We are seeking a highly motivated and performance-driven individual with strong cost analysis experience to work closely with our USMC and DHS clients.

Job Summary

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills, and the ability to contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in our portfolio.

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.
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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