Sr Principal Program Cost and Schedule Control Analyst

Role overview

Program financial analysis

• Provide financial support and analysis to program managers, functional management, cost account managers, and business managers.
• Prepare contract-work budgets and schedules and support funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Monitor contract costs and schedules requiring a validated cost schedule control system.
• Perform EVM work, including WBS development, budget baselines, cost risk assessments, visibility reports, and estimates-to-complete development and analysis.
• Analyze and report on contracts to ensure they remain within negotiated parameters and government cost-control guidelines.
• Maintain expenditure records, direct expenditure projections, and submit timely requests for additional government funding.
• Support audits and reviews requested by programs, customers, and company management.
• Support Annual Operating Plan, Resource Plan, and Long Range Strategic Plan activities.
• Prepare financial input for internal reports and presentations, including IPRS, dashboards, and BARs.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and eight years of related professional experience, or a master’s degree and six years of related professional experience; 12 years of applied experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience with financial systems, including cost performance reporting and analysis.
• Experience with Earned Value and performance measurement baseline concepts and applying them across contracts, CLINs, and control accounts.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and conditional formatting.
• Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.
• U.S. citizenship is required; the candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret clearance.

Preferred qualifications

• A degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field is preferred.
• Experience with COBRA, COGNOS, or SAP is preferred.
• A current, active U.S. Government Secret clearance is preferred.

Workplace and schedule

• The role is described as remote for the right fit candidate, with Chantilly, Virginia, and McClellan, California, also listed as possible bases.
• The position offers a 9/80 schedule and requires domestic travel 10% of the time.

Salary

• The stated primary-level salary range is $106,800–$176,300 per year.

Benefits

• Benefits include a health plan, savings plan, paid time off, education assistance, training and development, and a 9/80 schedule where available.