Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst at ACT1 Federal in Arlington, VA

Job description

• Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst to provide transparent cost, investment, affordability, and business-case analyses supporting capacity and recovery decisions.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities:
• Develop and evaluate life-cycle, nonrecurring, recurring, unit, capital, operating, and implementation cost estimates for industrial-base initiatives.
• Assess cost drivers, estimating assumptions, data quality, escalation, phasing, uncertainty, sensitivity, and affordability across alternative courses of action.
• Analyze contractor and supplier cost submissions, investment requests, rough-order estimates, spend plans, schedules, and supporting evidence.
• Reconcile cost, budget, obligation, expenditure, production, and schedule data and clearly document sources, methods, limitations, and confidence levels.
• Build business cases for capacity expansion, tooling, facilities, equipment, workforce, technology, supplier development, and production-recovery actions.
• Compare alternatives using return on investment, net present value, payback, cost avoidance, schedule effect, throughput, readiness, resilience, and mission benefit, as appropriate.
• Evaluate whether proposed investments address the verified production constraint and whether benefits are measurable, attributable, and achievable within the required timeframe.
• Identify Government and industry contributions, incentives, dependencies, execution risks, residual risks, and conditions necessary to protect the Government's interest.
• Develop funding profiles and decision points aligned with program needs, acquisition strategy, budget availability, and implementation milestones.
• Prepare independent assessments, alternatives analyses, investment memoranda, executive briefings, and recommendations for the BOND team, PAEs, and senior leaders.
• Coordinate with program, engineering, production, contracting, financial-management, legal, and industry stakeholders to validate assumptions and implementation plans.
• Establish baselines, performance measures, milestones, and benefit-realization plans for approved investments and corrective actions.
• Monitor cost, schedule, production, and benefit performance; identify variance and recommend corrective action, restructuring, or termination when warranted.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in finance, accounting, economics, business, engineering, operations research, supply chain, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in cost analysis, investment analysis, business-case development, financial management, acquisition analysis, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing defensible cost estimates and comparing investment or acquisition alternatives using quantitative and qualitative measures.
• Experience evaluating capital, production, supplier, infrastructure, technology, or program-improvement proposals and testing underlying assumptions.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and financial modeling, including sensitivity, scenario, cash-flow, and risk analysis.
• Ability to integrate technical, production, schedule, cost, budget, and financial information into concise senior-leader recommendations.
• Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Skills

Required

• Microsoft Excel
• financial modeling
• sensitivity analysis
• scenario analysis
• cash-flow analysis
• risk analysis

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term Disability
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Military Leave
• Education, Training & Professional Development
• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care
• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection