Senior Cost Analyst

Senior Cost Analyst

LOCATION: Hanscom AFB, Bedford, MA

Salary Range: $130-150k

JOB STATUS: Full-time

CLEARANCE: Secret

TRAVEL: Limited; as needed

Astrion has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cost Analyst providing support to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/PEO Digital Directorate (AFLCMC/HB). The Air Force Program Execution Office for PEO Digital (AFPEO/HB) has the collective Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) mission responsibility to manage and execute the modernization, development, testing, production, fielding, and sustainment of the PEO Digital portfolio, which includes over 130 programs for the United States Air Force (USAF) and foreign allies. AFLCMC/PEO Digital Directorate is headquartered at Hanscom Air Force Base, MA with geographically separated operating units CONUS and OCONUS.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors Degree
• 15 years of directly related experience, 8 years of which must be in the DoD
• Knowledge of most appropriate phase of the budgetary cycle (planning, programming, justification, and execution) for initiating new programs
• Experience in quantitative analysis and calculus
• Must be a US citizen

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's or Doctorate Degree in a related field and ten years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, five years of which must be in the DoD OR,
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and 12 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, five of which must be in the DoD

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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