Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Functional SME
Guidehouse
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Active Secret clearance and ability to maintain clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, economics, construction management, engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years in DoD/federal or large enterprise cost and economic analysis.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Functional SME for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis.
- Develop, review, and support life-cycle cost analysis activities.
- Advise on Economic Analysis, cost estimating, and capital investment analysis.
- Identify data dependencies and quality issues.
- Support definition of dashboards, visualizations, and reports.
- Participate in stakeholder sessions, demonstrations, pilots, and user acceptance reviews.
- Analyze project alternatives to determine total cost over lifespan.
Skills
Education
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Job description
The Life Cycle Cost Analyst (LCCA) plays a key role in helping organizations make smart, long-term investment decisions. This position focuses on evaluating the full cost of projects or assets—from planning and construction through operation, maintenance, and end-of-life. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys problem-solving, working with data, and translating financial insights into practical recommendations. Applicants with backgrounds in finance, economics, business, construction management, or related fields are encouraged to apply.
- Serve as the Functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, providing expertise and guidance in support of the Defense & Security Segment - FM Horizontal team.
- Develop, review, and support life-cycle cost analysis activities, methodologies, assumptions, and deliverables in alignment with program and business needs.
- Advise on Economic Analysis, Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, cost estimating, capital investment analysis, and financial management workflows.
- Identify current-state pain points, analyst inputs, review steps, approval expectations, data dependencies, and human review points.
- Support requirements refinement for cost model inputs, assumptions, cost categories, escalation logic, discounting, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, validation rules, and report outputs.
- Review historical analyses, cost models, and decision-support artifacts to identify reusable assumptions, data elements, precedent examples, and common quality issues.
- Help translate business, financial, and mission user needs into functional requirements for technical delivery teams.
- Support validation of sample scenarios, including output completeness, interpretability, traceability, and defensibility.
- Advise on data requirements and data quality challenges, including cost databases, project attributes, asset inventories, historical performance data, and source system limitations.
- Support definition of dashboards, visualizations, reports, and user interfaces that present analytical results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Participate in stakeholder sessions, demonstrations, pilots, testing activities, and user acceptance reviews with Government and internal delivery teams.
- Analyze project alternatives to determine their total cost over the asset's lifespan.
- An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, economics, construction management, engineering, or a related field
- FIVE (5) or more years of experience supporting DoW, federal, and/or large enterprise financial management in cost analysis, economic analysis, and/or capital investment analysis.
- Experience with Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, business case analysis, cost estimating, economic analysis, or decision-support workflows.
- Ability to assess cost assumptions, alternative comparisons, analytical outputs, model results, and reviewer-ready documentation.
- Experience developing, validating, reviewing, or using quantitative cost models.
- Familiarity with cost drivers, escalation, discounting, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and scenario comparison.
- Ability to translate functional user needs into clear requirements for technical, analytics, and AI delivery teams.
- Strong written communication, analytical documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in regulated, audit-sensitive, or mission-sensitive environments.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem‑solving skills
- Ability to interpret data and translate findings into simple, actionable insights
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Experience supporting DoW, federal financial management, facilities, infrastructure, construction, sustainment, or capital planning programs.
- Familiarity with LCCA methodology, NPV analysis, discounting, energy cost analysis, maintenance and repair cost assumptions, and long-term investment planning.
- Experience supporting analytics, automation, AI, workflow modernization, or decision-support modernization efforts as a functional SME.
- Ability to support demonstrations, pilots, training, testing, and user acceptance with Government or enterprise stakeholders.
- Experience with cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, or financial analysis
- Familiarity with facilities, infrastructure, or capital projects
- Exposure to tools such as cost and financial databases, modeling software, or project management systems
The annual salary range for this position is $92,000.00-$153,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
- Mobility Stipend
Finance & Accounting Consulting
Up to 10%
Active Secret
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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