Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Northrop Grumman is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security, and they are seeking a Senior Principal Budget Analyst to support the Navigation, Intelligence & Connectivity and Multidomain Sensing, Targeting & Survivability Divisions. The role involves financial administration, oversight of projects, and collaboration with leadership to ensure strategic financial planning and analysis.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Preparing financial plans and assessing impacts from major program awards on facility utilization and future needs
- Preparing regular and special-purpose reports
- Assessing impacts of organizational and operational changes to ensure impacts are properly evaluated and incorporated into budgets to ensure recoverability
- Presenting results of analysis for evaluation by Director level staff
- Preparing comparative evaluation of actual costs against budgeted funds and determining rationale for variances between costs and budget
- Analyzing trends and review Actuals to Budgets monthly with budget owners; update forecast as needed
- Providing financial oversight in the development and implementation of material rates and works closely with both GSC and Rates management
- Provide leadership, critical thinking, long range strategic planning and innovative behaviors in past projects, roles or experiences
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years related work experience – OR – a Master's Degree with 6 years of related work experience
- Experience in cost control, financial analysis, or accounting
- High level of understanding of Government Compliance
- Experience in Overhead rate preparation and analysis
- Experience with financial systems and financial planning software including SAP/S4 and Cognos Resource Budgets
- Strong Data Mining and Database management background including experience with MS Excel, MS Access, MS Query, Tableau and Power BI
- Experience with Pivot tables, conditional formatting and slicer tools to provide analysis
- Experience with MS Project
- US Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or Accounting
- Prior operations experience
Benefits
- Health Plan
- Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Additional Benefits including Education Assistance
- Training and Development
- 9/80 Work Schedule (where available)
- Overtime
- Shift differential
- A discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
- Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results
- Long Term Incentives
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company Overview
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.northropgrumman.com.