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The MITRE Corporation Cost Analyst Senior in McLean, Virginia
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Department Summary:
The MITRE Corporation’s Cost & Business Analytics Department is seeking a cost analyst to support multiple projects solving our customers’ most critical economic challenges. We are seeking a junior analyst to join our team. This department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interests in the intersection of emerging technologies, cost, business, and economic impacts across its diverse membership. Expect a multi-disciplinary team environment with self-motivated, highly trained professionals. This is a project-oriented position that may require project management, collaboration, communicating to technical and non-technical audiences, and direct sponsor engagement.
The Cost and Business Analytics Department within MITRE’s Center for Acquisition and Management Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Center that solves our FFRDC’s and Sponsor’s problems by leveraging our capabilities within:
Cost Estimation, Schedule, and Risk Analysis
Investment Economics & Decision Analysis
Strategic Business & Financial Analytics
Job Description:
Key functions include developing models and performing qualitative and quantitative analyses to understand the economic impact of investments, risk mitigation strategies, options and other government actions
Engaging with customers to advise and recommend economic metrics, tools, and policies that result in sustainable solutions
Developing strategic external partnerships to further the scope and depth of applied research and research outcomes
Economic modeling of integration and/or deployment challenges associated with technology or financing innovations through analytical, experimental, or model-based assessment
Collecting and analyzing financial, political, and socioeconomic data.
Conducting surveys and utilizing various sampling techniques.
Researching various fields including politics, healthcare, education, energy, etc.
Making use of historical data.
Analyzing market trends.
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience. .
Bachelor of Science degree in the fields listed below,
Economics
Engineering
Mathematics
Econometrics
Statistics
Operations Research
Data Analytics
Quantitative Sciences
Technical expertise/experience in one or more economic sub-specialties (Financial, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Behavioral Economics, etc)
Strong technical writing and oral presentation skills
The ability to think critically and be proactive in pursuing research and problem-solving with minimal supervision
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret level security clearance
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced degree in Economics, Finance, or related discipline
Extensive experience and expertise in the application of economic research in a business setting
Recent publications
Strong credentials, recognition, and partnerships in the design and evaluation of policies and strategies to deliver solutions at scale
Experience in finance
Recognized expertise and professional network in cost, economics, or finance
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Secret
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Secret
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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