[Remote] Sr Principal Budget Analyst

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

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