Principal Finance Insights & AI Analyst

Overview

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE:
No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE:
None

TRAVEL:
Yes, 10% of the Time

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.

Northrop Grumman Insights & Intelligence is seeking a Finance Insights Analyst to join Northrop Grumman’s Finance AI & Analytics organization. This position will support the Business Management function, and the selected candidate will report to the Manager, Finance AI & Analytics. The location for this position is Falls Church, VA with the opportunity for a 100% virtual/telework arrangement. At Northrop Grumman, Finance AI & Analytics is a core domain within our Insights & Intelligence (i2) organization.

As part of our Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO), i2 works with all enterprise domains and businesses to drive our data, analytics & AI transformation.

As a Finance Insights Analyst, you will conduct quantitative analyses and develop innovative data products that help to answer challenging business questions. Through these efforts, you will enable the business management organization to identify trends, improve forecasting, and make informed decisions that support enterprise strategy, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. This position will work closely with Northrop Grumman CFOs to provide meaning behind data, develop actionable insights, and drive performance that aligns with organizational goals and strategy.

• Being curious, detail-oriented, and ethically conscious.

• You seek to ask the right questions about our strategies, the business, and how we can use data to find solutions.

• You are a strategic thinker who can translate data to create well-informed decisions to enable better business outcomes.

• You want to drive positive change for our organizations, are candid and collaborative in taking on our most difficult analytics projects as well as the process and culture changes that accompanies them.

• You build deep and trusted partnerships at the working and organizational levels.

• Analyzing business requirements and processes to identify metric needs and opportunities for performance monitoring (e.g., customer satisfaction, service level agreements, case volume metrics, case resolution times, etc).

• Collaborating with business leaders to define, develop, and maintain business metrics and KPIs that align with organizational goals.

• Defining data requirements, gathering and validating information, while also applying sound judgment for people-related business problems and workforce management decisions.

• Creating strategic analyses by forming structured hypotheses, identifying patterns in data using quantitative methods and effective data visualizations, and deriving insights that drive decision making and operational improvements.

• Developing and maintaining innovative products that leverage data and advanced analytics.

• Driving analytics projects from initial concept through deployment, leveraging opportunities for automation.

• Providing training and support to stakeholders on data analysis tools and metrics interpretation.

• Conducting benchmarking against industry standards and competitors to assess performance and identify areas for improvement.

• Staying abreast of industry trends and methodologies and contributing innovative ideas to drive business value.

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have, at-minimum, a Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience OR a…