Business Management Analyst

At the heart of Defining Possible is our commitment to missions. In rapidly changing global security environments, Northrop Grumman brings informed insights and software-secure technology to enable strategic planning. We’re looking for innovators who can help us keep building on our wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel those missions. By joining in our shared mission, we’ll support yours of expanding your personal network and developing skills, whether you are new to the field, or an industry thought leader. At Northrop Grumman, you’ll have the resources, support, and team to do some of the best work of your career.

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.

What You’ll get to Do:

The Business Management Analyst will 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. The Analyst will 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.

As part of this role, the Business Management Analyst will 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.  In addition, this role will 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. 

Through critical thinking and innovative and independent behavior, this role will 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 and identify and mitigate program cost and schedule risk. 

The Business Management Analyst has responsibility 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.  The position will provide financial oversight in the development and implementation of various projects.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• 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
• Assessing impacts of organizational and operational changes to ensure impacts are properly evaluated and incorporated into budgets to ensure recoverability
• Preparing 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Management or Economics from an accredited institution with a minimum of 2 years of financial work experience.
• Basic understanding of Government Compliance.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

What We Can Offer You

Northrop Grumman provides a comprehensive benefits package and a work environment which encourages your growth and supports the mutual success of our people and our company. Northrop Grumman benefits give you the flexibility and control to choose the benefits that make the most sense for you and your family.   

Your benefits will include the following:  Health Plan, Savings Plan, Paid Time Off and Additional Benefits including Education Assistance, Training and Development, 9/80 Work Schedule (where available), and much more!

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Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO. U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.