Junior Cost Analyst
About The Position
Astrion as an exciting opportunity for a Junior Cost Analyst to directly support the Theater Battle Control Division (AFLCMC/HBD), which is within the USAF Digital Directorate and located at Hanscom AFB, MA. The Theater Battle Control Division manages efforts focused on developing, acquiring, fielding and sustaining programs that support worldwide communications, Battle Management, Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C2ISR), Tactical Air Control, Air/Ground Surveillance, Time Critical Targeting, Combat Identification, Radar Imagery, Integrated Air/Missile Defense, and Mobile/Fixed C2ISR Performance, Exploitation & Dissemination Facilities.
Requirements
- Must be a US citizen
- Must have and be able to maintain a Secret Security Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and up to three years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed.
- Knowledge of most appropriate phase of the budgetary cycle (planning, programming, justification, and execution) for initiating new programs
- Experience in quantitative analysis and calculus
- Experince with ACEIT
Responsibilities
- Perform routine cost estimating methods such as analogy, engineering or scientific methodology, and extrapolation
- Perform cost estimating outputs to assess the impact various factors have on the costs to design, research, develop, operate, maintain, and dispose of a particular weapon system
- Analyze all elements affecting costs for a project of limited scope
- Analyze contractor financial data using Earned Value Management (EVM) measures of merit to determine program viability with respect cost and schedule performance
- Analytical processes, such as: setting up the problem; conducting background research; collecting and reducing data; displaying data for analysis; formulating mathematical expressions; and drawing conclusions
- Provide contract pricing support services for tasks in all phases of the acquisition cycle to include development, award, management, measurement and contract closeout
- Prepare draft pricing briefings, draft pricing correspondence, and draft agency pricing reports
- Develop pricing related evaluation criteria, track pre-award task order milestones and status
- Support source selection teams in the evaluation of cost proposals
- Prepare pricing documentation for review and approval by the Government CO
- Prepare pricing spreadsheets of technical proposals and perform other pricing analyses to support price/cost evaluations of technical proposals
- Provide pricing support for discussions/communications with offerors
- Provide pricing support to construct agency pricing related reports and draft other pricing related documents in response to protest actions or other claims against the agency
- Access, populate, and analyze information in organizational pricing related databases Required skills may include but not be limited to:
- Knowledge of most appropriate phase of the budgetary cycle (planning, programming, justification, and execution) for initiating new programs
- Experience in quantitative analysis and calculus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
