Strategic Program Cost & Schedule Lead

Northrop Grumman Corporation; McClellan Place (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9/80 Work Schedule (where available)

Education Assistance

Training and Development

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corporation is seeking a Principal Program Cost Control Analyst to support NIC Division programs from Chantilly, VA or Sacramento, CA. The role includes budgeting, cost control, and EVM tasks within a 9/80 schedule.

You will collaborate with program managers and CAMs to ensure financial integrity, develop forecasts, and prepare expenditure projections while supporting audits and internal reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of related professional experience — or a master’s degree with 3 years of related professional experience
• Will consider 9 years of applied experience in lieu of degree requirement
• Experience with financial systems including cost performance reporting and analysis
• Strong PC skills - specifically Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and conditional formatting)
• Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Secret clearance.
• US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Provide business management support to programs in the NIC Division of the C&IS Business Unit and report directly to the Department Manager of the Strategic Intelligence and Data Exploitation Operating
• Interface with program managers, functional management, CAMs and business managers to provide financial support and analysis to meet program requirements
• Prepare budgets and schedules for contract work and assist in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis
• Monitor costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system and perform Earned Value tasks (WBS, budget baseline, cost risk analysis)
• Prepare reports to ensure contracts are within negotiated parameters and government cost control guidelines; maintain expenditure records and funding projections
• Support audits/reviews, annual operating plan, resource plan, long-range strategic plan, and prepare financial inputs to internal reports and dashboards

Skills

Excel proficiency

Pivot tables

VLOOKUP

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

9 years of related experience in lieu of degree

Tools

COBRA

COGNOS

SAP

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corporation is seeking a Principal Program Cost Control Analyst to support NIC Division programs from Chantilly, VA or Sacramento, CA. The role includes budgeting, cost control, and EVM tasks within a 9/80 schedule.

You will collaborate with program managers and CAMs to ensure financial integrity, develop forecasts, and prepare expenditure projections while supporting audits and internal reports.