Cost Analyst Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior cost analyst responsible for adhering to cost regulations, analyzing, and evaluating costs, policies, regulations, and procedures relative to the life‑cycle development, acquisition, deployment, and operation.
• Perform cost analysis work, mastery of integrated cost analysis and cost estimating for life cycle cost estimate development, procurement, and operations as it relates to R&D, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE), Procurement (OPA), and Operations (OMA) funding consistent with DoD financial laws, regulations, and guidance.
• Develop and recommend changes to estimates and policy/guidance independently while prioritizing and analyzing projects to assure funding and accomplishment of the mission.
• Cost estimate development and validation are performed on programs routinely exceeding a billion dollars in life‑cycle costs and will influence the development of budget/Program Objective Memorandum (POM) within the five‑year defense plan and for costs beyond the POM.
• Routinely perform tasks with minimal supervisory interaction and provide sound recommendations as it relates to estimate, policies, procedures, regulations and/or public law.
• Review and interpret proposed and new regulations and provide updated guidance and procedures within the organization. Appropriations include RDTE, Procurement, and Operations and Maintenance, Army (OMA) to derive production investment and total life‑cycle costs.
• Participate with numerous government activities throughout DoD in the development, production, and/or acquisition of systems; interface requirements with other weapon systems or with government activities within and external to DoD, and with multiple contractors, Services and Agencies engaged in the development and production of the systems. Assigned areas relate to studies, analyses, and reports required to support assigned programs (e.g., Work Breakdown Structures, Program Networks, Design‑to‑Cost, Baseline Cost Estimates, Schedule Risk Analysis, Cost Estimates) applying new analytical techniques or adapting existing evaluative methods for specific and specialized problems.
• Evaluate programs to identify, integrate, and synthesize all divergent aspects of the total system cost analysis/cost estimating program, including receipt and adaption of inputs from various related programs and functions.
• Recommend POM and other budget positions and participate in cost analysis studies that require the identification and correlation of operations, and cost factors in a variety of operational situations associated with systems development, production, and deployment efforts.
• Lead development of cost plans and procedures, including comparative analyses of cost models for alternative systems, correlation with schedules, technical requirements and cost; comparative analysis of relationships among cost growths, contract changes and funding arrangements; independent studies and estimates for initial production and production changes; analyses of cause and effect cost relationships arising from diversity in specific operational program objectives; and life‑cycle cost estimates to ensure accurate data and budgetary needs.
• Develop program cost estimates for the POM and subsequent fiscal years for all estimated appropriations such as RDT&E, Procurement and Operations and System Maintenance by identifiable work breakdown structure consistent with Military Standard (MIL‑STD) and capabilities requirements inclusive of quantity, life cycle sustainment plan, Acquisition Strategy, Test and Evaluation Management Plan to provide an estimated cost of the program and future budgetary needs.
• Integrate a full suite of estimation tools, guidance, and provide inclusion of actuals from available systems and contracts to develop a sound estimating approach and cost estimate to assure the most precise cost projection possible for inclusion in POM and beyond.
• Project future costs and make recommendations to reallocate budget dollars to improve productivity.
• Develop unique program variance analysis to reflect pertinent variances for estimation and future budget goals.
• Make sound program recommendations and assessments of program…