IQUASAR LLC
Cost Analyst
Full Time • Chantilly, Virginia
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Training & development
Leffler Consulting is seeking a seasoned Cost Analyst to join our team in Chantilly, VA. The candidate will provide expert advice, technical evaluations and alternatives on the technical approach and execution for ground systems. Key areas of focus include full life cycle system support, from procurement to Operations & Maintenance (O&M), including internal and external interfaces, requirements analysis, requirements tracking, system design and development through system test, delivery, installation, and sell-off.
One of our clients in Chantilly, VA needs a Cost Analyst for a permanent position.
- Position: Cost Analyst
- Location: Chantilly, VA
- Position Type: Permanent position.
- Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly.
Responsibilities:
- Apply the principles, theories, and methods of cost estimation and analysis
- Develop cost estimates, collect data, and develop models/methods for space systems and their associated ground and launch systems across multiple space-related product lines
- Perform cost estimating using parametric approaches, with preference for space system experience (including software estimating)
- Conduct tool development using COTS (i.e., Microsoft Excel), custom code, or FOSS (i.e., R, Python)
- Utilize product-oriented Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to evaluate technical baseline, assumptions, and risks
- Evaluate contractor engineering change proposals
- Perform forward pricing rate and corporate indirect rate analysis
- Develop government cost estimates
- Conduct assessments on program cost, technical, and schedule baselines, identify key cost and technical risk areas, and translate the risk areas into program cost impacts
- Support development of program office estimates to support the annual budget build, Affordability assessments, Analysis of Alternatives, Data collection, and normalization
- Perform cost improvement curve analysis, uncertainty analysis, and inflation analysis
- Apply advanced statistical techniques and interact with customers and colleagues expertly and effectively to resolve problems
- Apply leadership skills and the ability to manage competing priorities, multiple tasks, and work environments
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, operations research, cost analysis, mathematics, finance, economics, business administration, or a similar quantitative field preferred.
- Years of required cost estimating experience vary according to position level
Employee Benefits:
Leffler Consulting offers a comprehensive benefits program, including various options in these plans:
Leffler Consulting offers a comprehensive benefits program, including various options in these plans:
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Paid Holiday/Annual/Sick/Personal Leave
- Short-Term/ Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
- Generous 401(k) Company Plan
- Education Assistance
- Professional Development Programs Reimbursement
If you are interested in this position, please send me a copy of your latest resume at quadsia.niaz@lefflerllc.com with the information requested below. Also, please let me know what time/number is best to call to discuss this great opportunity. In case you are not interested in this position or this is not the right fit for you, please feel free to share this opportunity with your friends/networks or anyone you know who may be interested in this position. Thank you!
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Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any questions you may have. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Regards,
Quadsia Binat Niaz
Technical Recruiter
Leffler Consulting, LLC
Direct: 703-349-6241
An Equal Opportunity Employer:
Leffler Consulting is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital/parental /veteran status, disability, genetic information, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, military service, other non-merit factors, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
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