Senior Level Defense Cost Analyst

Kalman & Company, Inc.; Stafford (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kalman & Company, Inc. seeks a Senior Level Defense Cost Analyst to support military and DHS clients with cost analysis and program management. The role involves analyzing significant defense programs, coordinating with stakeholders, and requires a strong analytical background combined with effective communication skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous benefits package

Paid professional development opportunities

On-the-job training

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of DoD/DHS Cost Estimating experience.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent analysis skills with experience in large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of cost and schedule analysis for USMC and DHS capabilities.
• Conduct various analytics including Earned Value Management (EVM) analyses.
• Document and defend cost analyses including LCCEs and APB Section C.

Skills

Communication

Analytical skills

Quantitative skills

Research

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Three semester hours of calculus

Twenty-one semester hours in operations research or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Risk software (Crystal Ball, @Risk, ACEIT)

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Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated, performance driven individual with strong cost analysis experience to work closely with our United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clients. Successful candidates will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills and the ability to principally contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalman's portfolio. This position will require on-site work at corporate and/or client locations in the Quantico/Stafford area a few days a week.

A career with Kalman & Company, Inc. is both rewarding and challenging. Our clients require skilled, hardworking, innovative support service providers who can meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced workplace. As a Kalman Analyst, you will work with military leaders, engineers, developers, technicians, logisticians, and financial managers to collect, analyze, and communicate information that will help ensure the success of programs that are critical to the United States Department of Defense and our allies.

Benefits

• Engage with motivated and highly skilled teammates to solve the Government’s most challenging analytical problems by developing decision analyses for military and civilian leaders.
• Support the Business Analytics team via a flexible working structure that balances each employee’s lifestyle while providing opportunities for in-person client and team engagement.
• Join a diverse, inclusive, and growing team that fosters a supportive and encouraging environment to explore a variety of unique projects and clients for career success and fulfillment.
• Take advantage of a competitive salary along with a generous benefits package and paid opportunities for learning and professional development as well as on-the-job training and growth
  
  

Specific Duties

• Lead the development and maintenance of cost, affordability, and schedule analysis to support the acquisition of emerging USMC and DHS capabilities.
• Coordinate with a variety of stakeholders (senior government leadership, competency leads, etc.) to collect and communicate information to help ensure the success of priority programs.
• Conduct planning analyses, cost as an independent variable analysis, and Earned Value Management (EVM) analyses, implement estimating methodologies, and analyze data to support cost models build efforts.
• Document and defend cost analyses including Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs), Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) Section C, Business Case Analyses (BCAs), Economic Analyses (EAs), Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), cost/risk uncertainty analysis, trend/variance analysis, and Program Objective Memoranda (POM) budget submissions.
• Develop Acquisition Strategies and other acquisition-related documentation to support program milestone decisions and gate reviews.
• Develop cost databases, cost estimating relationships, and cost factors.
• Build and defend budget requirements.
• Respond to congressional requests for information.
• Forecast future funding needs.
• Evaluate contracting courses of action.
• Assess sustainment costs associated with acquisition decisions.
• Lead the preparation of briefing materials and other communications packages and present analysis results to program leadership and outside agencies/organizations.
• Work autonomously and as part of a team to meet organizational and project goals.
• Possess a strong understanding of USMC and DHS acquisition processes.
• Understand the customer mission.
• Address business challenges with creative problem-solving.
  
  

Required Education/Qualifications

• US Citizenship is required.
• An Active Secret Clearance is required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in any field and successful completion of three semester hours of calculus and twenty-one semester hours in operations research, economics, math, chemistry, physics, or other sciences where the utilization of advanced math skills in geometry, trigonometry, statistics, probability, or quantitative analyses
• US Citizenship
• Seven or more years of DoD/DHS Cost Estimating, Integrated Program Management, EVM, and/or Scheduling experience
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and uncertainty/risk software packages (Crystal Ball, @Risk, and/or ACEIT)
• Ability to lead detail-oriented tasks and multi-task under minimal super vision.
• Excellent analysis skills and experience working with large data sets
• Experience supporting BCAs, AoAs, EAs, or other analytics studies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
  
  

Preferred Education/Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale DoD and DHS IT or ERP programs.
• Proficient with ACEIT
• Certification in cost estimation, Integrated Program Management, and/or EVM by a recognized professional society or educational organization (CCEA, DAWIA level II, AACE EVP, PMI, PMP, etc.)

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Strategy/Planning and Information Technology

• Industries

  Business Consulting and Services

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