Contracts & Pricing Administrator

CNA Corporation

Arlington, VA
12 days ago

Highlights

Contracts and Subcontracts Administration: Assists with day to day administration of contracts and subcontracts, including drafting routine documents and correspondence, tracking key dates and funding, monitoring compliance with terms and conditions, coordinating deliverables, maintaining official files, and supporting close out activities. Key responsibilities involve building financial models, interpreting solicitation requirements (SOW/PWS), and ensuring alignment with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), State Procurement Codes, and Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200).

Numbers & Facts

Location	Arlington, VA
Industry	Other/Not Classified
Company Size	100 to 499 employees
Year Founded	1940
Website	https://www.cna.org/

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION AND/OR DUTIES

Contracts and Subcontracts Administration: Assists with day to day administration of contracts and subcontracts, including drafting routine documents and correspondence, tracking key dates and funding, monitoring compliance with terms and conditions, coordinating deliverables, maintaining official files, and supporting close out activities. Supports procurement administration as needed.
Proposal Support: Leads the development of compliant, competitive cost proposals across Federal, State/Local, and Federal Assistance (Grants/Cooperative Agreements) in response to Request for Proposals (RFPs). Key responsibilities involve building financial models, interpreting solicitation requirements (SOW/PWS), and ensuring alignment with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), State Procurement Codes, and Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200). Leads the timely creation of cost/price volumes and Basis of Estimates (BOEs) for the proposal efforts. Provides inputs for all management & corporate bid approval; attend proposal review meetings to discuss, review, and revise cost/price proposals and actively contributes to price discussions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with capture teams, contracts, procurement, and subcontractors. Assists in cross-training & facilitates continuous improvement initiatives.
Audit Support: Maintain comprehensive contract and pricing files and support internal/external audit requirements.
Other Duties: Performs other duties as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTSEducation: Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics or combination of education and work experience required.

Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience in finance, accounting or contracts. Government Contracting experience preferred.

Skills: Experience using Microsoft 365 collaboration tools with high proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Experience with Costpoint and Cognos (or similar ERP/BI tools) preferred. Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines, manage multiple concurrent proposals, and adapt to shifting priorities. Strong attention to detail and accuracy in numerical work and documentation. Effective communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to work both independently and as part of a cross‑functional team in a fast‑paced contracts/proposal environment.

Other: Ability to obtain and maintain a secret level security clearance.

Remote/Hybrid Work Eligibility: This position is eligible for telecommuting or hybrid work arrangements at the discretion of the Supervisor. Employees may be required to work at CNA headquarters or other work locations resulting in changes to the scheduled telecommuting or hybrid work arrangements.

About Company

CNA's approach to research is a modern iteration of the Newtonian principle that complex, dynamic processes are best understood through direct observation of events and people. That was the methodology CNA analysts first applied in the 1940s when they pioneered the field of operations research by helping the Navy address the German U-boat threat. Not content to study the problem from afar, this small group of MIT scientists insisted on deploying with Navy forces in order to observe operations and collect the data needed for meaningful analyses. Their groundbreaking work, and the anti-submarine warfare equations it produced, set a standard for operations research methods that CNA has maintained for 75 years. Today, with more than 500 professionals at our headquarters and 50 researchers in the field, CNA still takes a multi-disciplinary, real-world approach to our work. On-site analysts carefully observe all aspects of a process—people, decisions, actions, consequences—and then collaborate with a headquarters-based research team to assess data and arrive at findings. CNA's objective, empirical research and analysis helps decision makers develop sound policies, make better-informed decisions, and manage programs more effectively. Our work, which in its early decades focused solely on defense-related matters, has grown to include investigation and analysis of a broad range of national security, defense, and public interest issues including education, homeland security and air traffic management. Through our Center for Naval Analyses and Institute for Public Research, we provide public-sector organizations with the tools they need to tackle the complex challenges of making government more efficient and keeping our country safe and strong.