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# Principal Program Cost and Schedule Control Analyst -secret clea

- **Company:** Northrop Grumman
- **Location:** Linthicum Heights, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $89,900 - $134,900
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Microsoft Outlook, PC Tools, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, Lookup Table, Pivot Tables, SAP (Applications), Cobra, Performance Monitor, Conditional Formatting
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9282393/principal-program-cost-and-schedule-control-analyst-secret-clea

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree with 5 years of related professional experience - OR - a master's degree with 3 years of related professional experience
 * Experience with financial systems including cost performance reporting and analysis
 * Strong PC skills - specifically Excel proficiency (including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and conditional formatting)
 * Ability to travel domestically 10% of the time.
 * Current, active US Government Secret security clearance.
 * US citizenship required., * Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or related field
 * Experience with COBRA, COGNOS, SAP
 * Experience with Earned Value and performance measurement baseline concepts and ability to apply them to multiple contracts, CLINs and control accounts.

## Description

We're looking for you to join our team as a Principal Program Cost Control Analyst based out of Linthicum, MD. This is an onsite position that offers the 9/80 schedule.

What You'll Get to Do
The PCA will interface with the program managers, functional management, cost account managers (CAMs) and business managers to provide financial support and analysis to meet program requirements. They will prepare budgets and schedules for contract work and assist in financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, cash forecasting, and variance analysis.

The PCA will monitor costs and schedules on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system. This will include performing Earned Value Metric (EVM) tasks such as Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, budget baseline, cost risk analysis/ assessment and visibility reports, development, and analysis of estimates to complete.

The PCA will perform analysis and prepare reports to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines, including maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.

The PCA will support audits and reviews as requested by programs, customers, and company management, support Annual Operating Plan, Resource Plan, and Long-Range Strategic Plan activity, and prepare financial inputs to internal reports and presentations (IPRS, Dashboards, BARs, Etc.)

The PCA will provide support to junior staff (mentoring, training and providing guidance).