Earned Value Analyst Lead

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking an Earned Value Analyst Lead to join our Client's team.

We're looking for an Earned Value (EV) Analyst Lead for Amentum's Missile Defense Division. The EV Analyst Lead reports to the EV Manager supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) Contract. The EV Analyst Lead will lead a team of EV analysts that are matrixed across multiple task orders and ensure full compliance with documented EV standards and guidelines, the IRES EVM System Description, DoD Earned Value Management Implementation Guide (EVMIG) and established best practices.

The candidate will be responsible for the following:

Leadership & Management:

• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance and mentorship to the EV analysts and other team members on best practices and EVMS principles
• Develop and deliver training to project personnel on EVMS requirements, EVM tools, processes, and best practices
• Identify opportunities to improve EVM processes and support the adoption and testing of new EVMS or automation tools.

Technical Acumen:

• Ensure cost and schedule performance measurement baselines, including management reserves and undistributed budgets, are developed and maintained
• Conduct regular project performance analysis, calculating and interpreting key EVM metrics like Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI)
• Perform and review estimates at completion (EACs) and estimates to complete (ETCs), predicting final project costs and completion dates
• Ensure on-time delivery of comprehensive monthly reports and dashboards for internal management, senior leadership, and external customers, highlighting performance, variance drivers, and risks
• Analyze/Resolve cost accounting, charging, and funding discrepancies.

Customer Engagement and Collaboration:

• Optimize customer visibility
• Collaborate with project managers, control account managers, and stakeholders to ensure accurate schedule development and to communicate schedule status and risks.

Basic Requirements:

• Must have 14, or more, years of general experience
  • May be reduced with the completion of advanced education
• Must have 8, or more, years of directly related / specialized experience as an EV scheduler
• Must have 5, or more, years or experience working in a management or leadership role
• Must have, or obtain, an active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Desired Requirements:

• Experience providing direct support to Control Account Managers (CAMs), Project Managers (PjMs) and contract leadership performing in-depth financial analysis, supporting the development and maintenance of project baselines
• Experience providing regular and ad-hoc reporting and data analysis requests
• Experience supporting monthly status and forecasting efforts, supporting monthly earned value variance analysis development (to include identification of root cause(s) and variance impacts) and developing and maintaining corrective action efforts
• Experience in funding analysis and funding status reporting to the customer
• Experience in DECM testing, analysis of the test results, developing corrective action plans (when necessary) and implementing those corrective actions through completion and revalidation of test results
• Experience leading the preparation and execution of monthly integrated program management reports
• Experience maintaining accurate logs and files as required on an earned value contract (CBB logs, MR logs, UB logs, change control logs, etc.)
• Experience performing data analysis utilizing standard tools (MS Excel)
• Experience performing analysis using PowerBI
• Experience working within defined financial guidelines (DCAA and/or DCMA experience)

Security Clearance Required: Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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