Senior Analyst
Indexed description
Senior Analysts have the knowledge, skills, abilities and initiative to deliver timely, practical and innovative solutions to our clients as part of high-performing project teams typically composed of a mix of junior and mid-level analysts who will look to you for technical acumen and mentoring.
Our employee-owners pride themselves on their ability to apply deep analytical rigor and innovative thought that assist clients in understanding and solving a myriad of challenging resource planning and management problems.
This position is located in Troy, MI.
Responsibilities
- Develop and/or evaluate program technical and programmatic baselines
- Develop innovative development, production and operating and support (O&S) cost estimating techniques for a broad range of cost elements
- Develop independent or program life cycle cost estimates and accompanying risk, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
- Develop economic analyses, including but not limited to business case analyses, cost/benefit analyses and analysis-of-alternatives
- Assess the credibility of government and industry cost estimates and economic analyses
- Evaluate the credibility of industry cost proposals
- Assess the credibility of government and industry cost savings initiatives
- Assess industry contract cost and schedule performance and conduct variance root cause analysis
- Document and present/defend analytical results
- Develop and train less experienced cost analysts
- Apply highly effective customer service skills and work effectively with teams to foster a collaborative work environment across the organization.
- Apply leadership skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, multiple tasks and work requirements
- Apply highly effective communication skills (oral and written) and communicate complex issues and present results to senior managers and others in a clear and concise manner.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., economics, engineering, mathematics, operations research, statistics or business) or a discipline that fosters problem solving, structured thought and creativity.
- Minimum of 8 years’ defense, intelligence and/or civil agency program cost and economic analysis experience.
- Understanding of weapons and/or automated information systems design, production, operations, and support processes
- Understanding of weapons and/or automated information systems work breakdown structures
- Understanding of weapons and/or automated information systems cost drivers
- Understanding of government cost, technical and programmatic data sources
- Understanding of industry accounting systems
- Ability to think analytically, creatively and critically
- Ability to conduct ground breaking research
- Ability to precisely and concisely communicate and defend complex analytical results verbally and in various forms of written products
- Active SECRET Clearance
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills desired
- ICEAA Certification or Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) certification desired
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