Senior Budget Analyst - Strategic Cost & Forecasting

Northrop Grumman Corp.; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 82,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9/80 Work Schedule

Health Plan

Education Assistance

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Principal Budget Analyst to lead manufacturing budgeting within the AMS Division. You will develop cost estimates, perform variance analysis, and present financial data to internal customers.

The role requires overseeing near and long-term sector strategies and collaborating with directors across locations. Onsite work with a 9/80 schedule and a strong emphasis on process standardization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years related work experience or a Master’s Degree with 3 years of related work experience.
• Experience in cost control, financial analysis, or accounting.
• High level of understanding of government compliance.
• Experience in overhead rate preparation and analysis.
• Experience with financial systems and financial planning software including SAP/S4 and Cognos.
• Strong Data Mining and Database management background including Excel, Access, Query, Tableau and Power BI.
• US Citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate processes across the Mission Systems sector with focus on standardization of best practices, processes, tools and procedures.
• Financial data collection, consolidation, interpretation, and analysis to maintain affordability and predict future trends.
• Preparing financial plans and assessing impacts from major program awards on facility utilization and future needs.
• Preparing regular and special-purpose reports.
• Presenting results of analysis for evaluation by Director level staff.
• Preparing comparative evaluation of actual costs against budgeted funds and determining rationale for variances.

Skills

Data analysis

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Database management

SAP/S4

Cognos

Pivot tables

US Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SAP/S4

Cognos

Tableau

MS Excel

MS Access

MS Query

Job description

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems seeks a Principal Budget Analyst to lead manufacturing budgeting within the AMS Division. You will develop cost estimates, perform variance analysis, and present financial data to internal customers.

The role requires overseeing near and long-term sector strategies and collaborating with directors across locations. Onsite work with a 9/80 schedule and a strong emphasis on process standardization.