Cost Analyst/Estimator – TS/SCI Clearance w/CI Poly Required

Leffler Consulting, LLC; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability coverage

Paid leave

Paid holidays

Employee assistance program

Employee referral program

Job summary

Leffler Consulting, LLC in Chantilly, VA, is seeking a Cost Analyst/Estimator to join our team supporting national security satellite ground systems. This is an immediate opening and will reside full-time on-site with the government customer. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a CI polygraph is required.

Duties include developing cost estimates and models, performing parametric analyses, evaluating program cost baselines and risks, and supporting budget builds for IC/DoD programs.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
• Experience in cost estimation, analysis, or budgeting is preferred.
• U.S. government or defense contracting experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop cost estimates and models for space systems and related programs.
• Evaluate baselines, assumptions, and risks using WBS and other tools.
• Support government budgeting and affordability analyses.

Skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Written and oral communication

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, operations research, cost analysis, mathematics, finance, economics, business administration, or similar quantitative field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

R

Python

Job description

Job Description

Leffler Consulting is seeking a Cost Analyst/Estimator to join our team in Chantilly providing support to national security satellite ground systems. This position is an immediate opening and will reside full-time on-site with the government customer. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a CI polygraph is required.

Location

Chantilly, VA

Duties

• Apply the principles, theories, and methods of cost estimation and analysis
• Develop cost estimates, collect data, and develop models/methods for space systems and their associated ground and launch systems across multiple space related product lines
• Perform cost estimating using parametric approaches, with preference for space system experience (including software estimating)
• Conduct tool development using COTS (i.e., Microsoft Excel), custom code, or FOSS (i.e., R, Python)
• Utilize product-oriented Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to evaluate technical baseline, assumptions, and risks
• Evaluate contractor engineering change proposals
• Perform forward pricing rate and corporate indirect rate analysis
• Develop government independent cost estimates
• Conduct assessments on program cost, technical, and schedule baselines, identify key cost and technical risk areas, and translate the risk areas into program cost impacts
• Support development of program office estimates to support the annual budget build
• Affordability assessments
• Analysis of Alternatives
• Data collection and normalization
• Perform cost improvement curve analysis, uncertainty analysis, and inflation analysis
• Apply advanced statistical techniques and interact with customers and colleagues expertly and effectively to resolve problems
• Apply leadership skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, multiple tasks, and work environments
• Perform other duties as assigned to support corporate and customer initiatives

Skill Set

• Strong analytical background and good interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, operations research, cost analysis, mathematics, finance, economics, business administration, or similar quantitative field.

Required Experience

• Years of required cost estimating experience vary according to position level

Desired Education

• Refer to Required Education

Founded in 2001, Leffler Consulting is a women-owned small business (WOSB) headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We provide financial management and life-cycle budget and cost support to our nation’s most critical programs in the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). Leffler Consulting specializes in all areas of financial management, audit readiness, and process improvement and controls while also providing a broad array of support functions critical to supporting the mission requirements of our customers. We offer competitive salaries and a generous benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage, paid leave, paid holidays, an employee assistance program, and an employee referral program.