Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst

ACT1 Federal•Arlington, VA

5d•$130,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst to provide transparent cost, investment, affordability, and business-case analyses supporting capacity and recovery decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in finance, accounting, economics, business, engineering, operations research, supply chain, or a related discipline.
10+ years’ experience in cost analysis, investment analysis, business-case development, financial management, acquisition analysis, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated experience developing defensible cost estimates and comparing investment or acquisition alternatives using quantitative and qualitative measures.
Experience evaluating capital, production, supplier, infrastructure, technology, or program-improvement proposals and testing underlying assumptions.
Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and financial modeling, including sensitivity, scenario, cash-flow, and risk analysis.
Ability to integrate technical, production, schedule, cost, budget, and financial information into concise senior-leader recommendations.
Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

Develop and evaluate life-cycle, nonrecurring, recurring, unit, capital, operating, and implementation cost estimates for industrial-base initiatives.
Assess cost drivers, estimating assumptions, data quality, escalation, phasing, uncertainty, sensitivity, and affordability across alternative courses of action.
Analyze contractor and supplier cost submissions, investment requests, rough-order estimates, spend plans, schedules, and supporting evidence.
Reconcile cost, budget, obligation, expenditure, production, and schedule data and clearly document sources, methods, limitations, and confidence levels.
Build business cases for capacity expansion, tooling, facilities, equipment, workforce, technology, supplier development, and production-recovery actions.
Compare alternatives using return on investment, net present value, payback, cost avoidance, schedule effect, throughput, readiness, resilience, and mission benefit, as appropriate.
Evaluate whether proposed investments address the verified production constraint and whether benefits are measurable, attributable, and achievable within the required timeframe.
Identify Government and industry contributions, incentives, dependencies, execution risks, residual risks, and conditions necessary to protect the Government's interest.
Develop funding profiles and decision points aligned with program needs, acquisition strategy, budget availability, and implementation milestones.
Prepare independent assessments, alternatives analyses, investment memoranda, executive briefings, and recommendations for the BOND team, PAEs, and senior leaders.
Coordinate with program, engineering, production, contracting, financial-management, legal, and industry stakeholders to validate assumptions and implementation plans.
Establish baselines, performance measures, milestones, and benefit-realization plans for approved investments and corrective actions.
Monitor cost, schedule, production, and benefit performance; identify variance and recommend corrective action, restructuring, or termination when warranted.