Senior Army Cost Analyst — Cyber Programs (TS/SCI)

KWAAN; Fort Belvoir, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Kwaan Bear Technology (KBITS) is seeking a senior Cost Analyst to lead defensible cost estimating and decision support for a prospective Army cyber program. This role integrates technical scope, staffing, schedule, risk, and pricing assumptions to enable leadership to make informed resource decisions.

You will develop, validate, and maintain lifecycle cost estimates, IGCEs, cost models, and related documentation, while leveraging Power BI and AI tools to improve analysis and reporting for

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship with active Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility.
• Eight+ years of directly relevant cost analysis, operations research, pricing, or economic analysis experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Experience supporting Army or comparable national security acquisition programs.
• Experience producing lifecycle estimates, IGCEs, affordability analyses, cost benefit analyses.
• Ability to reconcile technical, staffing, schedule, performance, risk, and pricing assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, validate, and maintain lifecycle cost estimates, IGCEs, cost models, assumptions, and supporting documentation.
• Analyze SETI labor categories, labor mixes, historical rates, staffing models, travel, other direct costs, escalation, and execution trends.
• Conduct affordability, sensitivity, uncertainty, cost risk, what if, and cost benefit analysis.
• Evaluate cost, schedule, technical, cybersecurity, and operational tradeoffs and identify major cost drivers.
• Provide rapid cost inputs that support Agile planning, backlog prioritization, delivery increments, and release decisions.
• Use Government approved AI, automation, analytics, and Power BI capabilities to improve data preparation, scenario analysis, forecasting, and reporting while maintaining validation.
• Document estimate basis, source data, exclusions, limitations, assumptions, and audit trails.

Skills

Cost analysis

Data analysis

Pricing

Risk analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Kwaan Bear Technology (KBITS) is seeking a senior Cost Analyst to lead defensible cost estimating and decision support for a prospective Army cyber program. This role integrates technical scope, staffing, schedule, risk, and pricing assumptions to enable leadership to make informed resource decisions.

You will develop, validate, and maintain lifecycle cost estimates, IGCEs, cost models, and related documentation, while leveraging Power BI and AI tools to improve analysis and reporting for