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 their Navigation, Intelligence & Connectivity and Multidomain Sensing, Targeting & Survivability Divisions. The role involves financial administration, oversight of projects, and collaboration with various teams to analyze financial data and develop strategies.
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 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
- 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 (for Vice President or Director positions)
- Health insurance coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company Overview
Northrop Grumman Australia has been a trusted partner to Australia’s Defence community for over two decades. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Canberra, AU, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.northropgrumman.com/australia.