Senior Principal Program Cost Control Analyst

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

We’re looking for you to join our team as a Senior Principal Program Cost Control Analyst based out of Linthicum, MD.  This position is onsite and offers the 9/80 schedule.

What You’ll Get to Do
The Senior Principal Program Cost Control Analyst (PCA) will support/lead program financial controls within the Combat Sensors Business Unit reporting directly to the Director of the OU.   Combat Sensors BU is within the AMS division supporting F-16 radar platforms to include SABR as well as legacy platforms.   In additional, the BU has emerging restricted platforms.  

The PCA will interface with the program managers, functional management, cost account managers (CAMs) and business managers to provide financial support and analysis to meet program requirements. The PCA will prepare program plans to ensure program requirements and statement of work are captured and scheduled, and perform schedule risk assessments to identify and mitigate program cost and scheduling risks.  They will prepare budgets and schedules for contract work and assist in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis.

The PCA will monitor costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.  This will include performing Integrated Baselined Reviews (IBR) as well as Earned Value Management (EVM) tasks such as: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budget baseline, cost risk analysis/ assessment and visibility reports, development, analysis of estimates to complete, and EVM Customer reporting.

The PCA will perform analysis and prepare reports to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines, including maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government. 

The PCA will support internal and external audits and reviews as requested by programs, customers, and company management, support Annual Operating Plan, Resource Plan, and Long Range Strategic Plan activity, and prepare financial inputs to internal and external reports and presentations (IPRS, Dashboards, BARs, Etc.)

Overall, the PCA is responsible to provide guidance on policies and procedures, and participate in knowledge transfer and best practices sharing with peers in the role of Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of related professional experience - OR - a Master's degree with 6 years of related professional experience
• Will consider 12 years of applied experience in lieu of degree requirement.
• Experience with Earned Value and performance measurement baseline concepts and ability to apply them to multiple contracts, CLINs and control accounts.
• Experience with financial systems including cost performance reporting and analysis
• Experience preparing and presenting complex financial analysis to management and external customers
• Strong PC skills - specific