Principal Cost Analyst
Role Overview
The Acquisition Affordability and Business Analytics Department supports sponsor challenges involving cost, economic, business, and financial analysis.
Work may include life-cycle cost estimating, affordability and tradeoff analyses, decision analysis, portfolio investment analysis, economic modeling, research, and business cases.
Projects may also involve modeling and simulation, advanced statistical techniques, and constrained optimization.
The project-oriented role may involve project management, collaboration, communication to technical and non-technical audiences, and direct sponsor engagement.
The environment is dynamic and collaborative, with multiple projects, limited structure, and problems that may be ambiguous or require novel approaches.
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About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest.
The organization operates federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies.
Department and role
The Acquisition Affordability and Business Analytics Department supports sponsor challenges involving cost, economic, business, and financial analysis.
Work may include life-cycle cost estimating, affordability and tradeoff analyses, decision analysis, portfolio investment analysis, economic modeling, research, and business cases.
Projects may also involve modeling and simulation, advanced statistical techniques, and constrained optimization.
The project-oriented role may involve project management, collaboration, communication to technical and non-technical audiences, and direct sponsor engagement.
The environment is dynamic and collaborative, with multiple projects, limited structure, and problems that may be ambiguous or require novel approaches.
Responsibilities
- Lead junior analyst teams and manage sponsor project timelines, deliverables, and outcomes.
- Develop models and analyze the cost, economic, and financial impacts of investments, risk strategies, options, and government actions.
- Collect financial, cost, and economic data; develop or evaluate technical and programmatic baselines.
- Create cost-estimating methods and life-cycle cost estimates, including risk, uncertainty, and sensitivity analyses.
- Prepare estimates for source selection, including Independent Government Cost Estimates, and conduct cost studies such as rate-reasonableness analysis.
- Conduct investment, decision, business-case, cost-benefit, alternatives, portfolio, strategic business, and financial analyses.
- Assess the credibility of government and industry estimates using benchmark guidance such as GAO’s 12 steps and CEBoK.
Candidate profile
- Experienced cost analyst able to work across several simultaneous projects with limited structure or supervision.
- Comfortable with novel, ambiguous problems and multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Able to scope and prioritize sponsor work, and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
Department capabilities
- Cost estimation and analysis.
- Investment economics and decision analysis.
- Strategic business and financial analytics.
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