Senior Army Cost Analyst — Top Secret/SCI Eligible

Kwaan Bear Technology; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kwaan Bear Technology in the United States is seeking a senior Cost Analyst to lead defensible cost estimating for a prospective Army cyber program. You will connect technical scope, staffing, schedule, risk, and pricing assumptions to enable leadership to make informed capability decisions.

This role requires eight or more years of cost analysis experience, active Top Secret with SCI eligibility, and a Bachelor's degree.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of directly relevant cost analysis, operations research, pricing, or economic analysis experience.
• U.S. citizenship, active Top Secret clearance, and SCI eligibility.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience supporting Army, Department of War, or comparable national security programs.
• Experience producing lifecycle estimates, IGCEs, affordability analyses, cost–benefit analyses, and risk 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, and other direct costs.
• Conduct affordability, sensitivity, uncertainty, cost risk, what-if, and cost-benefit analyses.
• 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, quality checks, and executive reporting while maintaining analyst validation.
• Document estimate basis, source data, exclusions, limitations, assumptions, and audit trails.

Skills

Cost analysis

Operations research

Pricing analysis

Economic analysis

Affordability analysis

Cost risk assessment

Scenario analysis

Executive reporting

Data preparation

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

CCEA

PCEA

CDFM-A

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Kwaan Bear Technology in the United States is seeking a senior Cost Analyst to lead defensible cost estimating for a prospective Army cyber program. You will connect technical scope, staffing, schedule, risk, and pricing assumptions to enable leadership to make informed capability decisions.

This role requires eight or more years of cost analysis experience, active Top Secret with SCI eligibility, and a Bachelor's degree.