Cost Analyst with Security Clearance
Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated, performance driven individual with strong cost analysis experience.
This is a mostly offsite position with occasional meeting attendance with our government client in Northern VA.
Successful candidates will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills and the capability to lead, or principally contribute to, several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalman's portfolio.
Specific Duties:
A career with Kalman & Company, Inc.
is both rewarding and challenging.
Our clients require skilled, hardworking, innovative support service providers who are able to meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced work place.
The Cost Analyst position will include, but not be limited to, the following capabilities:
You will support Department of Navy programs by developing and reporting project cost and scheduleanalyses.
This support will include tasks such as planning analyses, selecting estimating methodologies,collecting data, analyzing data, and building cost models.
Support will also include defending and documenting cost analyses such as time-phased life cycle cost estimates, Section C of the programs' acquisition program baselines, business case analyses, economic analyses, analyses of alternatives, costrisk/uncertainty analyses, trend analyses, variance analyses, sensitivity analyses, and program objectivememoranda/program review budget submissions.
You will support program milestone decisions, decision reviews, and gate reviews.
You will help developacquisition strategies and other acquisition-related documentation normally required for major programdecisions.
Candidates must be capable of developing cost databases, cost estimating relationships, costfactors, cost as an independent variable analyses, earned value management analyses, and any othercost reporting required for major acquisition programs.
You will work with a gamut of specialists (military leaders, engineers, technicians, logisticians, financialmanagers, attorneys, etc.
) to collect and communicate information that will help ensure the success ofprograms that are critical to the United States Armed Forces and our allies.
Additional Tasks:
o Build and defend budget requirementso Forecast future funding needso Evaluate contracting courses of actiono Acquisition planningo Estimate the sustainment cost impacts of acquisition decisionso Help brief leadership and oversight organizations for all affected program/project's fundingrequirements.
Required Education/
Qualifications:
US Citizenship is required.
An Active Secret Clearance (or higher) is required.
Bachelor's Degree in any field, successfully completed three semester hours of calculus, andhave completed twenty-one semester hours of course work in operations research,economics, math, chemistry, physics or other sciences where the utilization of advancedmath skills in geometry, trigonometry, statistics, probability, and/or quantitative analysis isrequiredFive (5) to 12 years of experience in Cost Estimating, Integrated Program Management(IPM)/Earned Value Management (EVM), or Scheduling Preferred Education/
Qualifications:
Certified in Cost Estimating or IPM/EVM by a recognized professional society or educationalorganization (Career field specific DAWIA level II, ICEAA PCEA, AACE EVP or PMIGROUP ID:
10123332 Recommended Skills Acquisition Processes Data Collection Databases Earned Value Management Economy Finance Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
This is a mostly offsite position with occasional meeting attendance with our government client in Northern VA.
Successful candidates will have excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills and the capability to lead, or principally contribute to, several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalman's portfolio.
Specific Duties:
A career with Kalman & Company, Inc.
is both rewarding and challenging.
Our clients require skilled, hardworking, innovative support service providers who are able to meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced work place.
The Cost Analyst position will include, but not be limited to, the following capabilities:
You will support Department of Navy programs by developing and reporting project cost and scheduleanalyses.
This support will include tasks such as planning analyses, selecting estimating methodologies,collecting data, analyzing data, and building cost models.
Support will also include defending and documenting cost analyses such as time-phased life cycle cost estimates, Section C of the programs' acquisition program baselines, business case analyses, economic analyses, analyses of alternatives, costrisk/uncertainty analyses, trend analyses, variance analyses, sensitivity analyses, and program objectivememoranda/program review budget submissions.
You will support program milestone decisions, decision reviews, and gate reviews.
You will help developacquisition strategies and other acquisition-related documentation normally required for major programdecisions.
Candidates must be capable of developing cost databases, cost estimating relationships, costfactors, cost as an independent variable analyses, earned value management analyses, and any othercost reporting required for major acquisition programs.
You will work with a gamut of specialists (military leaders, engineers, technicians, logisticians, financialmanagers, attorneys, etc.
) to collect and communicate information that will help ensure the success ofprograms that are critical to the United States Armed Forces and our allies.
Additional Tasks:
o Build and defend budget requirementso Forecast future funding needso Evaluate contracting courses of actiono Acquisition planningo Estimate the sustainment cost impacts of acquisition decisionso Help brief leadership and oversight organizations for all affected program/project's fundingrequirements.
Required Education/
Qualifications:
US Citizenship is required.
An Active Secret Clearance (or higher) is required.
Bachelor's Degree in any field, successfully completed three semester hours of calculus, andhave completed twenty-one semester hours of course work in operations research,economics, math, chemistry, physics or other sciences where the utilization of advancedmath skills in geometry, trigonometry, statistics, probability, and/or quantitative analysis isrequiredFive (5) to 12 years of experience in Cost Estimating, Integrated Program Management(IPM)/Earned Value Management (EVM), or Scheduling Preferred Education/
Qualifications:
Certified in Cost Estimating or IPM/EVM by a recognized professional society or educationalorganization (Career field specific DAWIA level II, ICEAA PCEA, AACE EVP or PMIGROUP ID:
10123332 Recommended Skills Acquisition Processes Data Collection Databases Earned Value Management Economy Finance Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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