If forging a secure future excites you, look no further! Northrop Grumman’s Space Sector provides an arena where your passion for innovation and quest for exploration are welcome. As a Program Cost Control Analyst – Level 1 (Associate) your role at Redondo Beach, CA will be pivotal in supporting missions critical to national and global security. This position is 100% onsite and cannot accommodate telecommute work.

Ready to join forces with our visionary team?   

Our Program Cost Control Analyst will help prepare budgets and schedules for contract work and assist with financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlooks, cash forecasting and variance analysis. You will also work to ensure adequate funding availability by maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation for expenditure projections and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government. This position will support intercompany programs and the site General Manager.

This position will work a 9/80 schedule, with every other Friday off.

Your mission, should you choose to accept:

• Set up cost control system, monitor and control costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system

• Support audits and reviews requested by programs, customers, and company management, fact-finding and negotiation support

• Perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines

• Perform Earned Value Metric (EVM) tasks including Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budget baseline, cost risk analysis/ assessment and visibility reports, development and analysis of estimates to complete

• Other duties as assigned

Why you? You’re the candidate we’re searching for if you are ready to achieve the impossible alongside like-minded innovators.

This position is contingent upon capturing program award(s) as well as obtaining and maintaining associated business and/or customer funding prior to start date.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree – OR – High School Diploma or equivalent with 4 years of professional work experience

• No clearance required to start

• Experience with MS Office Suite

 Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience with financial analysis or reporting

• Earned Value Management (EVM) experience

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Business Administration

• Defense industry experience

• Program Cost Control experience

• Experience with FAR/DFAR

• Experience with Costpoint, Cobra, Primavera or SAP

• Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Curious about all the exciting developments with the Northrop Grumman Space Sector? Click the link below:

https://www.northropgrumman.com/space

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