What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst - Security Clearance Required position at Arcfield?
Overview
Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
Responsibilities
Arcfield is looking for a Business Analyst to join our team to supporting the Sponsor Front Office-level by analyzing, recommending, and optimizing operational strategies. The candidate will engage in a diverse set of tasks covering a broad set of consulting capabilities, apply a variety of analytical, problem solving, and reporting skills and techniques to both standard and unique business processes. Additionally, the candidate will document and evaluate business processes and make process improvement recommendations, produce a variety of communications including executive briefings.
This is a part-time position. Therefore, the candidate may also perform other duties, if suitably qualified.
- Track and a ssess performance and activity levels of the business environment . Recommend methods to optimize performance and improve corporate strategies by leveraging organizational knowledge, reviewing business-related data, and using comprehensive data analysis skills, research and recommend new analytic practices.
- Assist in developing, enhancing, and maintenance of capturing cost and / or pricing data, and cost recovery activities across organizations by analyzing :
- Service descriptions.
- Cost and pricing models.
- Billing policies.
- Cost recovery processes.
- Compile and analyze cost data and provide status of life-cycle cost estimates.
- Support Sponsor annual Pricing Assessment exercise, including :
- Assemble financial information from Sponsor Leadership and Mission Partners.
- Assess financial data based on the activity based costing model.
- Facilitate Pricing Assessment meetings with Sponsor Leadership.
- Report on financial analysis through cost-benefit analysis; provide recommendations.
- Coordinate with the Sponsor’s Finance team to assess and strategically allocate budget resources such as :
- Use business modeling analysis to assess fiscal standings and forecasting.
- Perform cost-benefit analysis to address long-term strategic decisions.
- Provide life-cycle cost estimation to support fiscal evaluations.
- Prepare and report organizational performance metrics, analytic findings, and trends. Present reports using presentation applications and / or data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, or Microsoft PowerBI ) that display operational status, efficiency levels, and trend lines.
- Collaborate with internal functional teams, Sponsor leadership, stakeholders, and Mission Partners across the Sponsor and with IC organizations , as required .
- Perform work activities efficiently with a positive customer service attitude and a high degree of professionalism.
Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
EEO Statement
Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
