Cost Analyst

About the Role

Odyssey Systems has an exciting opportunity for a Cost Analyst to join our team developing, updating, and defending Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs) / Program Office Estimates (POEs) across Radar and C2 missions. This is a hybrid role with approximately 90% remote work and occasional on-site support at Peterson Space Force Base.

Responsibilities

• Data Integration
  • Develop and support custom cost data tools to support future estimates.
  • Institute quality control measures, report results, and conduct process improvement initiatives as needed.
• Cost Estimating Process
  • Develop, maintain, update, and deliver fully documented and well-supported cost estimates, with an assessment of risk and schedule.
  • Apply standard cost estimating methods such as analogy, engineering or scientific methodology, and extrapolation.
  • Use cost estimating outputs to assess the impact of various factors on the costs to design, research, develop, operate, maintain, and dispose of weapon systems.
  • Work through the cost estimating analytical processes including problem definition, background research, data collection, data analysis, data visualization, formulating mathematical expressions, and developing and defending conclusions.
  • Analyze all elements affecting costs for a project of limited scope.
  • Implement processes and logic to extract, transform, and distribute cost data from across radar and C2 missions to inform data-driven decisions.
• Cost Estimating Products
  • Support, develop, maintain, and update cost estimates such as Program Office Estimate (POE), Single Best Estimate (SBE), non-MDAP Independent Cost Estimates (ICEs), Independent Cost Analyses (ICAs), Sufficiency Reviews (SRs), Cost Excursions, Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) (including estimates within the Comprehensive Cost and Requirement (CCaR) System), Service Cost Positions (SCPs), Program Executive Officer (PEO) Estimates in support of annual Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submissions, Should Cost Estimates, Independent Program Assessments (IPAs), Milestone Reviews, and Interim Program Reviews.
  • Develop cost-related program inputs such as Most Probable Cost Estimate, Should Cost/Will Cost Estimate, and Government Basis of Estimate (BOE) for government Shoulder-to-Shoulder activities with Program Contractors and solicitation activities such as Request for Proposals (RFPs), Acquisition Strategy Plans (ASPs), and Source Selections; and annual execution plans within the Comprehensive Costs and Requirements (CCaR) System.
  • Create Business Case Analyses (BCA), Cost-Benefit Analyses (CBA), market surveys, Economic Analyses (EA), or other related analyses in accordance with mandated government regulations.
• Program Support
  • Analyze Program Contractor cost estimates to ensure consistency with Government cost estimating procedures; analyze the Program Contractor’s BOE, risks, and crosscheck major WBS elements or cost drivers in accordance with DoD and AF requirements; record analysis results.
  • Support and attend Government/Prime Contractor meetings for information-gathering purposes to assist the government in assessing cost estimates.
  • Support all cost-related activities within RFP reviews, Source Selections, and Initial/Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).
  • Provide cost-related support to accomplish required Acquisition Reporting, including but not limited to, Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) and Program Management Reviews (PMRs).
  • Assess acquisition planning documents.

Requirements

• Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.
• Education: BS/BA with 21 semester hours in quantitative analysis courses (or other fields relevant to their area of expertise limited to the following: Management, Business, Economics, Finance, Operations Research Analyst, Accounting, Mathematics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Statistics, or Cost Estimating/Analysis), plus three (3) semester hours of Calculus.
• Years of Experience: 7 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• 7 years of cost estimating experience.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Experience using cost estimating tools such as ACE-IT (Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools), SEER, or Unison's TruePlanning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clearance: Active Secret Clearance.
• Education: BA/BS.
• Years of Experience: 10 years of cost estimating and ACE-IT experience.
• Prior Department of Defense weapons system acquisition experience.
• Experience analyzing agile metrics (velocity, features, stories, etc.) and estimating agile projects.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, R, and/or SQL.
• Data modeling/mapping.
• Tracking efforts via Jira and Confluence.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance and Tricare supplement.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
• Employee assistance program.
• Learning and development benefit.
• Paid time off and holidays.

Location

Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO (hybrid role with approximately 90% remote work).