Senior Program Analyst – Defense Cost & Schedule (ACEIT/EVM)

Saic; Rockaway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC invites a Senior Program Analyst to provide senior-level cost, financial, programmatic, and business-analysis support for ammunition programs at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. You will liaise across government and contractor teams to inform decisions on cost, schedule, performance, and readiness.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree with eight years of relevant experience, expertise in ACEIT-based estimates, EVM, and acquisition support, and U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field and eight (8) years of relevant experience.
• Must have cost and financial analysis, life-cycle cost estimating, program analysis, acquisition support, business-case development, budget execution, and analysis of requirements impacts on cost, schedule, performance, and readiness.
• Must have experience supporting major defense acquisition programs, ammunition or weapon-system programs, ACEIT-based estimates, Earned Value Management, and senior acquisition reviews is preferred.
• Must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Prepare independent life-cycle cost estimates using the ACEIT suite for ammunition programs and assess reasonableness of PM baseline estimates.
• Conduct cost-benefit, business-case, ROI, and breakeven analyses; develop Independent Government Cost Estimates.
• Apply cost estimating methods including CERs, learning curves, sensitivity and uncertainty analyses.
• Perform Earned Value Management analysis and track cost baselines, identify risks or corrective actions affecting cost, schedule, and performance.
• Support strategic planning, workload modeling, efficiency studies, and business-process improvements for Maneuver Ammunition Systems.
• Evaluate workflows and controls; develop recommendations to improve cost efficiency and mission outcomes; prepare reports for senior stakeholders.
• Independently analyze complex cost, budget, contractual, and operational issues; defend estimates to validation authorities.

Skills

Cost analysis

Life-cycle cost estimating

Program analysis

ACEIT

Earned Value Management

Acquisition support

Budget execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, CS, IS or related field

Tools

ACEIT suite

Job description

SAIC invites a Senior Program Analyst to provide senior-level cost, financial, programmatic, and business-analysis support for ammunition programs at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey. You will liaise across government and contractor teams to inform decisions on cost, schedule, performance, and readiness.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree with eight years of relevant experience, expertise in ACEIT-based estimates, EVM, and acquisition support, and U.S.