Expert Cost Analyst

Job Title

Expert Cost Analyst 

Opportunity

Excellent opportunity for experienced Cost/Price Analyst  supporting a federal Government Agency

Job Type

Full-time

Location

Reston, VA US
WASHINGTON, DC 20001 US (Primary)

Category

Financial

Career Level

Senior Level

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Travel

Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI with ability to obtain a polygraph

Job Description

Provides cost/price analysis support with comprehensive knowledge of the full scope of laws, regulations, and policies that affect both the development of IGCEs and the cost/price analysis of proposal submitted for all pre-award contracting activities up to and including contract award.

Perform cost/price analysis on the various elements of major contractor proposals, reviewing in detail the significant direct and indirect cost elements.

Assists in the development of and/or make recommendations for the cost/price objectives to be used in negotiations.

Provide a forecast of price trends economic factors and efficiencies in production for future accounting periods using analytical techniques such as random sampling, cost models, and parametric cost models.

Request, coordinate and integrate into a comprehensive pricing report the various technical evaluations of cost elements.

Job Requirements

Requirements

Require 12-15 years of experience conducting performing relevant actions specific to labor category with relevant experience within the last 2 years. Work is highly independent.

Education:

Masters degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Meets all qualifications and skills of a Mid-Level, to include:

• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative acquisition and program management analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that contribute to enterprise/corporate level process improvement.
• Demonstrates ability to design comprehensive, new, or unique process improvement enablers to further streamline Agency PPB&E facilitation.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of acquisition lifecycle operations, including financial execution concepts, and provides knowledge management across organizational and intra-IC boundaries to clearly articulate key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrates ability to review analytic program management data for cogent arguments, provide adequate support for conclusions, and routinely tests accuracy of analytic data.

 Security Clearance Required

TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

 

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