COST ANALYST/ Financial Analyst

Role: Cost Analyst / Financial Analyst Location: Norfolk VA Duration: Long term Client : US Federal Note: onsite work

• The Cost Analyst will independently oversee all aspects of economic analysis to evaluate the costs of alternative ways to accomplish functional IT project objectives, analyze hardware, software, and resource investment costs, benefits, and risks.
• Work with personnel throughout ISD, other Logistics Centers, and other divisions to identify the cost of doing business now and in the future, ensuring that cross-functional, security, and other integration issues are addressed and will conduct an analysis of system vulnerability management, remediation costing and develop the necessary plan of action and milestones cost analysis for security vulnerabilities and financial audits.
• Once an IT requirement has been identified the incumbent will conduct analysis, development, and implementation for various IT projects in ISD also once a requirement has been identified, the incumbent will conduct market research and complete project planning.
• Ensure the project analysis is consistent with applicable regulations and policies, while also ensuring the analysis will support internal or external compliance and will participate in project management, maintain and track action items, and keep the management team updated on the project status.
• Refine Levels of Effort for software development, project and hardware upgrade costing. The incumbent will follow statutory requirements to assist in budget formulation, execution, analysis, problem resolution, program build briefings, and development of budget descriptions and justifications.

• A Bachelor’s degree in one of the following: Accounting, Business, Project Management, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related area and Minimum of three (3) years of experience with using business analysis and data visualization tools beyond Excel (i.e., COGNOS, Tableau, VBA, SAS, SQL) preferred OR a High School Diploma with Project Management or IT certification and Five (5) years’ hands on experience in Minimum of three (3) years of experience with using business analysis and data visualization tools beyond Excel (i.e. COGNOS, Tableau, VBA, SAS, SQL) preferred
• The applicant is preferred to have intermediate experience in the following programs/software:

• Candidate must be able to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Candidate must possess strong oral communication and written comprehension capabilities