Senior Level Cost Analyst

Senior Level Cost Analyst

Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated performance driven individual with strong cost analysis experience to work closely with our Department of Warfare (DoW) 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 occasional meeting attendance in Arlington VA. As part of our 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 for this position is $110K/yr-$130K/yr depending on the candidates commensurate experience. This position is contingent and tied to a government proposal.

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 will help 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 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

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and maintenance of cost affordability and schedule analysis to support the acquisition of emerging DoW capabilities.
• Collect and normalize cost technical and programmatic data from government entities
• 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.
• Evaluate contracting courses of action and develop Acquisition Strategies/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 and forecast future funding needs.
• Respond to congressional requests for information.
• 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 DoW acquisition processes.
• Address business challenges with creative problem-solving.

Required Education/Qualifications:

• US Citizenship.
• Active 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
• Ten or more years of cost experience as well as seven or more years of progressive DoW experience
• Experience supporting ACAT I Air Force/Space Force/Intelligence community programs
• 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.

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

Preferred Education/Qualifications:

• Experience supporting the USAF.
• 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.)
• Specific experience estimating ballistics missiles/munitions software aircraft tactical missile/munitions and/or space and launch systems programs