Financial Cost Analyst

Position: Financial Cost Modeling Analyst

Location: Washington, DC

FTE

If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.

Position Overview

Provide advanced financial analysis, cost modeling, and cost allocation support focusing on Financial and Accounting Shared Services (FASS).

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain activity-based costing (ABC) models and financial cost allocation methodologies.
• Analyze shared-services costs, billing models, financial trends, and variances.
• Apply Python, R, predictive modeling, and quantitative techniques to financial datasets.
• Validate analytical results and maintain traceable methodologies, documentation, and audit trails.
• Support financial process changes, release management, reporting, and stakeholder recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in data science, statistics, accounting, applied mathematics, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong experience in cost modeling, activity-based costing, and cost allocation frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R, predictive modeling, and financial data analysis.
• Experience with financial data validation, audit-trail design, and analytical documentation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. xhqgsiq

Preferred:

Federal financial systems, financial and accounting shared services, policy analytics, customer billing, and change/release management experience.