Junior DataCost Analyst

Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated performance-driven individual with strong data/cost analysis experience to work closely with our Federal and DoW clients. Successful candidates will have excellent communication quantitative research and analytical skills and the ability to contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalmans portfolio. As a member of the Business Analytics Team youll help our Government clients make well-informed data-driven decisions on some of the most impactful challenges facing the DoW. The salary range will be from $80K/yr-$95K/yr.

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

Benefits

• Engage with motivated and highly skilled teammates to solve the governments most challenging analytics problems by decision analyses for military and civilian leaders
• Support the Business Analytics team via a flexible working structure that balances each employees lifestyle while providing opportunities for in-person client and team engagement
• 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:

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of cost affordability and schedule analysis to support the acquisition of emerging DoW capabilities
• Lead develop update and apply mathematical and logical methodologies for supporting program analyses
• Support data analytics and advanced analytics efforts
• Identify validate cleanse and normalize data to create predictive models and trend analyses
• Conduct and manage program office estimates and reference them to build and defend budget requirements and forecast future funding needs
• Evaluate program investment and acquisition strategies and courses of action
• Conduct comparative decision analyses including Business Case Analyses (BCAs) Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs) Economic Analyses (EAs) and market research
• Lead preparation of briefing materials and other communication packages presenting analysis results to management at the executive and oversight levels for all affected program/project funding requirements
• Work autonomously and as part of a team to meet organizational and project goals
• Have a strong understanding of DoW and/or DHS Acquisition processes
• Coordinate with a variety of stakeholders (senior government leadership competency leads etc.) to collect and communication information to help ensure the success of priority programs
• Provide thought leadership clearly demonstrating an understanding of the customer mission and innovative ideas to address business challenges of the customer

Required Skills/Abilities

• US Citizenship
• Active Secret Security Clearance or the ability to obtain a government-issued Secret level 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
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint
• Ability to lead detail-oriented tasks and multitask under minimal supervision
• Experience conducting advanced mathematical and/or statistical methods and creating/ maintaining databases
• Excellent analysis skills and experience working with large data sets
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team-oriented environment

Kalman & Company Inc. maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment and random substance abuse testing and background verification checks.

Preferred Education/Qualifications

• Minimum of three years experience in DoD cost estimating and/or analysis
• Proficiency with Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACEIT) and uncertainty/risk software packages (Crystal Ball @Risk SEER etc.)
• 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.)
• Experience supporting BCAs AoAs EAs or other analytical studies

Required Experience:

Junior IC