Business Management Analyst

Northrop Grumman•Salt Lake City, UT

2d•$65,500 - $98,300•Onsite

About The Position

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. We have a wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies. Our differentiated battle management and cyber solutions deliver timely, mission-enabling information and provide superior situational awareness and understanding to protect the U.S. and its global allies. We are looking for you to join our team as a Business Management Analyst based out of Salt Lake City. This is an onsite position. This position offers the 9/80 schedule.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Management, Economics or related field from an accredited institution with a minimum of 2 years of financial work experience.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, chart generation, VBA macros, etc.)
Willingness and ability to travel domestically up to 10%.
US citizenship is required.
Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Basic understanding of Government Compliance.
SAP, COGNOS, or similar ERP software experience.
Experience in Aerospace & Defense, Insurance, Financial Services, or Telecommunications.
Earned Value Management (EVM) customer reporting, MPM, or COBRA experience.
Current/Active DoD security clearance.

Responsibilities

Work within a team structure and interact with various operating units, business areas, and division staff to assist in solving reporting program issues and meeting reporting requirements.
Interface with program managers, functional management, control account managers (CAMS) and business managers, to provide financial support and analysis in addition to generating program performance measurement baselines (PMB) and implement approved changes.
Perform analyses and prepare program financial reports for internal and external customers relative to program cost incurrence, material tracking, and labor spending to help ensure program contracts are within negotiated, agreed-upon parameters, government cost control guidelines, and accounting guidelines.
Work cooperatively with the business, functional, and technical staff to address internal and external customer requests while supporting cost estimate development, customer proposals, negotiations, and various audits.
Facilitate, monitor, and forecast program financing mechanisms including Accounts Receivable, Advanced Payments, and Performance Based Payments.
Coordinate and prepare program financial forecasting and reporting, the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), and the Labor Resource Plan.
Identify and mitigate program cost and schedule risk.
Responsible for all aspects of financial administration for the Sector’s Operations organization, with specific focus on development of both near term and long term Sector strategy and analysis of alternatives.
Provide financial oversight in the development and implementation of various projects.
Evaluate processes across the Mission Systems sector with focus on standardization of best practices, processes, tools and procedures.
Financial data collection, consolidation, interpretation, and analysis in an effort to maintain affordability and promote the predictability of future trends.
Assess impacts of organizational and operational changes to ensure impacts are properly evaluated and incorporated into budgets to ensure recoverability.
Prepare comparative evaluation of actual costs against budgeted funds and determining rationale for variances between costs and budget.
Perform analysis and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines.
Set up cost control system, monitors and controls costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.
Perform Monthly Unit Cost financial analysis and provides both external and internal reporting(s) for Operations and Business Management.