Northrop Grumman Australia · 2 weeks ago
Principal Program Cost Control Analyst
United States-California-Woodland Hills
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$94K/yr - $141K/yr
5+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security, and they are seeking a Principal Program Cost Control Analyst to support production programs within the Navigation, Intelligence and Connectivity Division. The role involves providing financial support and analysis, preparing budgets and schedules, monitoring costs and schedules, and ensuring compliance with government cost control guidelines.
Defense & Space
Responsibilities
Support Firm Fixed Price (FFP) type production programs within the Navigation, Intelligence and Connectivity Division (NIC) reporting to the manager of the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Operating unit
Interface with the program managers, functional management, cost account managers (CAMs) and business managers to provide financial support and analysis to meet program requirements
Prepare budgets and schedules for contract work and assist in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis
Monitor costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system
Perform Earned Value Metric (EVM) tasks such as Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budget baseline, cost risk analysis/assessment and visibility reports, development, and analysis of estimates to complete
Perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines, including maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government
Support audits and reviews as requested by programs, customers, and company management, support Annual Operating Plan, Resource Plan, and Long Range Strategic Plan activity, and prepare financial inputs to internal reports and presentations (IPRS, Dashboards, BARs, Etc.)
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree with 5 years of related professional experience - OR - a Master's degree with 3 years of related professional experience
Will consider 9 years of applied experience in lieu of degree requirement
Experience with financial systems including cost performance reporting and analysis
Experience with COGNOS, SAP
Experience with financial forecasting
Strong PC skills - specifically Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, Vlookup, and conditional formatting)
Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time
Preferred
Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or related field
Experience with COBRA, ERP2
Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and performance measurement baseline concepts and ability to apply them to multiple contracts, CLINs and control accounts
Benefits
Health Plan
Savings Plan
Paid Time Off
Education Assistance
Training and Development
9/80 Work Schedule
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase