Financial Cost Analyst

Location: Washington, DC

FTE

Position Overview

Provide advanced financial analysis, cost modeling, and cost allocation support focusing on Financial and Accounting Shared Services (FASS).

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain activity-based costing (ABC) models and financial cost allocation methodologies.
• Analyze shared-services costs, billing models, financial trends, and variances.
• Apply Python, R, predictive modeling, and quantitative techniques to financial datasets.
• Validate analytical results and maintain traceable methodologies, documentation, and audit trails.
• Support financial process changes, release management, reporting, and stakeholder recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in data science, statistics, accounting, applied mathematics, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong experience in cost modeling, activity-based costing, and cost allocation frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R, predictive modeling, and financial data analysis.
• Experience with financial data validation, audit-trail design, and analytical documentation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred:

Federal financial systems, financial and accounting shared services, policy analytics, customer billing, and change/release management experience.