Expert Cost Analyst

Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated performance driven individual with strong cost analysis experience to work closely with our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) clients. Successful candidates will have excellent communication quantitative research and analytical skills and the ability to principally contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalmans portfolio. This position will require on-site work at Arlington VA. This position is tied to a proposal and contingent upon contract award. The tentative salary range is $150K/yr-$170K/year.

A career with Kalman & Company Inc. is both rewarding and challenging. Our clients require skilled hardworking innovative support service providers who can meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced workplace. As a Kalman Analyst you will work with military leaders engineers developers technicians logisticians and financial managers to collect analyze and communicate information that will help ensure the success of programs that are critical to the United States Department of Defense and our allies.

Benefits:

• Engage with motivated and highly skilled teammates to solve the Governments most challenging analytical problems by developing decision analyses for military and civilian leaders.
• Join a diverse inclusive and growing team that fosters a supportive and encouraging environment to explore a variety of unique projects and clients for career success and fulfillment.
• Take advantage of a competitive salary along with a generous benefits package and paid opportunities for learning and professional development as well as on-the-job training and growth

Specific Duties

• Lead the development and maintenance of cost affordability and schedule analysis to support the acquisition of emerging DHS capabilities.
• Coordinate with a variety of stakeholders (senior government leadership competency leads etc.) to collect and communicate information to help ensure the success of priority programs.
• Conduct planning analyses cost as an independent variable analysis and Earned Value Management (EVM) analyses implement estimating methodologies and analyze data to support cost models build efforts.
• Document and defend cost analyses including Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs) Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) Section C Business Case Analyses (BCAs) Economic Analyses (EAs) Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs) cost/risk uncertainty analysis trend/variance analysis and Program Objective Memoranda (POM) budget submissions.
• Develop Acquisition Strategies and other acquisition-related documentation to support program milestone decisions and gate reviews.
• Develop cost databases cost estimating relationships and cost factors.
• Build and defend budget requirements.
• Respond to congressional requests for information.
• Forecast future funding needs.
• Evaluate contracting courses of action.
• Assess sustainment costs associated with acquisition decisions.
• Lead the preparation of briefing materials and other communications packages and present analysis results to program leadership and outside agencies/organizations.
• Work autonomously and as part of a team to meet organizational and project goals.
• Possess a strong understanding of USMC and DHS acquisition processes.
• Understand the customer mission.
• Address business challenges with creative problem-solving.

Required Education/Qualifications:

• US Citizenship is required.
• Active Secret Security Clearance or ability to obtain a Secret Security Clearance.
• Bachelors Degree in any field and successful completion of three semester hours of calculus and twenty-one semester hours in operations research economics math chemistry physics or other sciences where the utilization of advanced math skills in geometry trigonometry statistics probability or quantitative analyses
• Fifteen or more years of DoD/DHS Cost Estimating Integrated Program Management EVM and/or Scheduling experience
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel Word PowerPoint and uncertainty/risk software packages (Crystal Ball @Risk and/or ACEIT)
• Ability to lead detail-oriented tasks and multi-task under minimal super vision.
• Excellent analysis skills and experience working with large data sets
• Experience supporting BCAs AoAs EAs or other analytics studies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.

Preferred Education/Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large-scale DoD and DHS IT or ERP programs.
• Proficient with ACEIT
• Certification in cost estimation Integrated Program Management and/or EVM by a recognized professional society or educational organization (CCEA DAWIA level II AACE EVP PMI PMP etc.)