Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Functional SME

Travel Required: Up to 10%

Clearance Required: Active Secret

About the role

The Life Cycle Cost Analyst (LCCA) plays a key role in helping organizations make smart, long-term investment decisions. This position focuses on evaluating the full cost of projects or assets—from planning and construction through operation, maintenance, and end-of-life. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys problem-solving, working with data, and translating financial insights into practical recommendations. Applicants with backgrounds in finance, economics, business, construction management, or related fields are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, providing expertise and guidance in support of the Defense & Security Segment – FM Horizontal team.
• Develop, review, and support life-cycle cost analysis activities, methodologies, assumptions, and deliverables in alignment with program and business needs.
• Advise on Economic Analysis, Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, cost estimating, capital investment analysis, and financial management workflows.
• Identify current-state pain points, analyst inputs, review steps, approval expectations, data dependencies, and human review points.
• Support requirements refinement for cost model inputs, assumptions, cost categories, escalation logic, discounting, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, validation rules, and report outputs.
• Review historical analyses, cost models, and decision-support artifacts to identify reusable assumptions, data elements, precedent examples, and common quality issues.
• Help translate business, financial, and mission user needs into functional requirements for technical delivery teams.
• Support validation of sample scenarios, including output completeness, interpretability, traceability, and defensibility.
• Advise on data requirements and data quality challenges, including cost databases, project attributes, asset inventories, historical performance data, and source system limitations.
• Support definition of dashboards, visualizations, reports, and user interfaces that present analytical results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Participate in stakeholder sessions, demonstrations, pilots, testing activities, and user acceptance reviews with Government and internal delivery teams.
• Analyze project alternatives to determine their total cost over the asset’s lifespan.

Requirements

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, economics, construction management, engineering, or a related field.
• Five (5) or more years of experience supporting DoW, federal, and/or large enterprise financial management in cost analysis, economic analysis, and/or capital investment analysis.

Qualifications

• Experience with Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, business case analysis, cost estimating, economic analysis, or decision-support workflows.
• Ability to assess cost assumptions, alternative comparisons, analytical outputs, model results, and reviewer-ready documentation.
• Experience developing, validating, reviewing, or using quantitative cost models.
• Familiarity with cost drivers, escalation, discounting, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and scenario comparison.
• Ability to translate functional user needs into clear requirements for technical, analytics, and AI delivery teams.
• Strong written communication, analytical documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in regulated, audit-sensitive, or mission-sensitive environments.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret data and translate findings into simple, actionable insights.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience supporting DoW, federal financial management, facilities, infrastructure, construction, sustainment, or capital planning programs.
• Familiarity with LCCA methodology, NPV analysis, discounting, energy cost analysis, maintenance and repair cost assumptions, and long-term investment planning.
• Experience supporting analytics, automation, AI, workflow modernization, or decision-support modernization efforts as a functional SME.
• Ability to support demonstrations, pilots, training, testing, and user acceptance with Government or enterprise stakeholders.
• Experience with cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, or financial analysis.
• Familiarity with facilities, infrastructure, or capital projects.
• Exposure to tools such as cost and financial databases, modeling software, or project management systems.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $92,000.00 - $153,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend