Program Analyst

Responsibilities

• Support all phases of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) lifecycle, including budget formulation and execution, cost analysis, funds control, financial reporting, and program management support.
• Interface regularly with senior government leadership, program managers, contracting officers, and external stakeholders to ensure accurate, compliant, and timely financial execution.
• Prepare, review, execute, and monitor annual and multi-year budgets, forecasts, spend plans, and financial plans in accordance with federal and DoW requirements.
• Develop and maintain financial models, Earned Value Management models, detailed spend plans, and funding profiles across multiple projects, contracts, and fiscal years.
• Perform funds control, obligation and expenditure tracking, reconciliations, and variance analysis to ensure compliance with authorized funding levels.
• Create, maintain, and enhance financial databases, spreadsheets, and automated tools to support analysis and reporting.
• Prepare monthly cost and execution reports that inform executive-level decision-making, defend program assumptions, and validate incurred costs.
• Serve as a primary liaison among financial management teams, program offices, contracting organizations, and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and timely execution of financial actions.
• Evaluate contractor cost estimates, disbursement plans, and execution performance against budget, schedule, and technical baselines.
• Support programs across all lifecycles of acquisition, and sustainment by conducting IBRs, maintaining baselines, and preparing IGCEs, ROMs, and other cost analysis products.
• Mentor and train junior cost and program control analysts, providing technical guidance and contributing to overall team capability development.
• Document and present/defend analytical results.
• Develop and train less experienced cost analysts.

Requirements

• Progressive experience in financial analysis, cost analysis, budget execution, or program control supporting federal or DoW programs.
• Demonstrated experience supporting PPBE processes, including budget formulation, execution, and financial reporting, within a government, DoW, federal contracting, or intelligence community environment.
• Experience extracting and integrating cost, schedule, and performance data from various reports and datasets, with working knowledge of systems such as Primavera P6 and ERP platforms, and leveraging Excel, Power Query, and Power BI to automate data refreshes, perform analysis, and develop executive-level reports and dashboards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing senior leadership.
• Experience providing financial and programmatic support.
• Proven ability to analyze and synthesize complex financial and programmatic data into clear, concise briefings for senior leadership.
• Minimum of 2 years’ defense, intelligence and/or civil agency program business, financial management, program and/or economic analysis experience.
• Understanding of weapons and/or automated information systems design, production, operations, and support processes.
• Understanding of weapons and/or automated information systems work breakdown structures.
• Understanding of Government and/or industry accounting systems.
• Ability to conduct groundbreaking research.
• Ability to precisely and concisely communicate and defend complex analytical results verbally and in various forms of written products.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills desired.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (economics, engineering, mathematics, operations research, statistics or business) or a discipline that fosters problem solving, structured thought and creativity (mandatory/documented with some minimum criteria for completion of math coursework).
• Ability to think analytically, creatively and critically (mandatory/demonstrated).
• Active SECRET Clearance.
• Familiarity with PowerApps, R, Python, Power BI/Power Query.
• ICEAA Certification or Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) certification.