Cost Analyst

Odyssey Systems has an exciting new opportunity for a Cost Analyst to join our team of Analysts developing, updating, and defending Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs) / Program Office Estimates (POEs) across Radar and C2 missions.  This is a full-time opportunity with 90% of your time spent working remote.

If you have experience with ACE-IT (Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools) and are passionate about utilizing your financial and business acumen to defend our National Security interests, then this is the role for you! 

Duties include, but not limited to:  

• Apply comprehensive knowledge of principles, policies and practices of systems acquisition and program management, as defined in DoDI 5000.02 Operation of the Adaptive Acquisition Framework and 5000.75 Business Systems Requirements and Acquisition, as well as knowledge of roles and relationships within the DoD, the Air Force, and the Space Force. 
• Provide project management oversight of efforts, tasks, studies, and engineering recommendations of the prime contractor to meet contractual requirements. 
• Apply knowledge of qualitative and quantitative techniques for gathering, analyzing, and measuring the effectiveness, efficiency and productivity of acquisition programs. 
• Ability to work in a test environment and deploy modernization efforts to multiple sites/sides/strings.
• Support activities that assist the Branch Chief in assessing what programs are within schedule and cost baselines. 
• Recommend viable solutions to problems and the pursuit of alternative courses of action. 
• Effectively communicate verbally, in written communications, and in briefings to senior leadership.
• Provide quality acquisition and program documentation (briefings, documents, plans, schedules, etc.) 
• Ability to coordinate staff packages including, but not limited to, public affairs products. 
• Manage reviews, updates, and recommended changes to the prime contractors Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and Integrated Management Schedule (IMS). 
• Advise and assist in planning the implementation of projects through coordinating and integrating engineering, contracting, financial management, cost, logistics, configuration management, test, and other related disciplines to achieve successful project requirements. 
• Advise and assist the Government Program Manager on all business aspects of the funded projects to include requirements definition, budget formulation, cost estimates, contract strategy formulation, contract schedule management, contractor progress, contract risk management, earned value status, and future budget requirements. 
• Apply elements of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations and service supplements to support contracting elements of acquisition and program execution. 
• Compose draft contract letters, Point Papers, Status Reports, Position Papers, Acquisition Strategy Panel briefings and Program Management Review briefings as required for senior Government decision makers. 
• Support activities in studying, analyzing, dissecting, coordinating internal and external taskers from cradle-to-grave. 
• Support and develop acquisition reports, including statutory and regulatory reports (i.e. DAES, MAR, etc.). 
• Support Program Management Reviews (PMRs), senior level meeting/reviews and stakeholder meetings. 
• Supporting and developing various briefings/schedules of program status and acquisition tasks to senior management. 
• Supporting implementation and execution of Agile concepts and processes (not software related) in concert with Government and Prime contractors. 
• Developing and implementing innovative solutions to expedite execution of contract actions that provide products and services to customers, consistent with statutory requirements and risks. 
• Providing acquisition support to project and program managers, to include reviewing and assessing project/program performance, reviewing delivered contract data items, and preparing factual, clear, concise, complete and appropriately coordinated written communications.  
• Monitoring, reviewing and recommending approval of contract obligations and payments that synchronize program management and financial management efforts.  
• Perform acquisition planning, solicit, evaluate, negotiate, analyze, advise, and assist with contract awards, post award administration and terminations on contracts for the procurement of supplies and services, including complex contracts and high dollar acquisitions.
• Assisting or performing post-award duties including monitoring contract performance, payment processing, executing, and documenting conventional contract modifications.

Minimum Requirements:

Citizenship: Must be a US Citizen

Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance

Education: BS/BA with a focus in Management, Business, Economics, Finance, Operations Research Analyst, Accounting, Mathematics, Science, Technology, Engineering, Statistics, or Cost Estimating/Analysis

Years of Experience: 10 years of relevant experience within the DoD.

Preferred Qualifications:

Clearance: Active Top Secret security Clearance

• EVM experience
• Experience required using standardized and specialized software applications such as, but not limited to, Microsoft Office and Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACE-IT).
• • At a minimum, five (5) years of ACE-IT experience
  • At a minimum, five (5) years of Microsoft Office Suite experience
• Prior weapons system acquisition experience
• Experience with Jira and Confluence to track workload status and priorities
• Experience with estimating agile projects and analyzing agile metrics (velocity, features, stories, etc.)

Additional Information:

Location: Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB) in Colorado Springs, CO

Travel: NA

Remote, Onsite, or Hybrid: Hybrid- Approx. 90% remote, subject to change at the customer's discretion

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Odyssey Systems is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military’s operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.

Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares, a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as the Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.

This position is filled through continuous recruitment and will remain open until a sufficient pool of applications has been received.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, Tricare supplement, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, employee assistance program, learning and development benefit, paid time off, and holidays.

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