About Cask:

Cask delivers business and technology advisory and consulting services to help our customers achieve success. Cask was founded in 2004 by a group of professionals who saw the need to help clients use and unlock the value of technology in a more efficient, cost effective ways. Cask recognized that we could provide additional value first and foremost by delivering in a flexible and responsive way to specific clients’ needs and goals. Secondly, clients needed real-time, actionable data to create measurable results more effectively.

Cask is a woman-owned small business and is certified by the State of California as a Micro Business and by the SBA as an 8(a), Economically Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) through September 6, 2016.

Duties:

·       Support US Navy clients developing cost estimates, business cases, and investment analyses for complex projects and operations. Produce realistic, data-driven project and operations estimates. 

·       Work with clients to define deliverable scope, timelines, and expectations.  Collect, analyze, and evaluate historical data and expert opinion to provide a basis for assumptions, methodologies, and estimate results, applying sound reason and appropriate judgment.

·       Translate functional and technical requirements into cost, schedule and quality estimates.  Act as a bridge between Program and Engineering Management.  

·       Research and apply relevant Acquisition statutory and regulatory policies.  Estimates should adhere to relevant policies.     

Qualifications:

·       Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Finance, Accounting, Engineering or related field required.

·       Six years of relative cost estimating and analysis experience.

·       Three or more years of relative experience providing cost estimating and analysis support.

·       Strong numeracy skills – ability to crunch numbers with ease.   

·       High level of proficiency with building excel-based financial models (including use of sumifs, vlookups, pivot tables, named variables, etc).

·       Experience/familiarity providing client facing cost estimating and analysis support

·        High level of proficiency with applying analytical techniques to data to identify patterns.

·       Ability to summarize and effectively communicate information from the Staff to Executive level.

·        Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and lead other analysts on large projects.

·       Knowledge of Federal Government budgeting and acquisition process.

Highly desired but not required:

·       Master’s degree in Math, Finance, Accounting, Engineering or an similar field.

·        Experience with providing Acquisition, Program Management, and/or Business Financial Management support to the US Navy or other DOD customer.

·       Familiarly with Navy Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) program and systems and/or SPAWAR PEO C4I/PEO EIS portfolios.

·       Acquisition program experience with major milestones and POM submissions.

·        Advanced knowledge of statutory and regulatory policies associated with cost estimating and analysis requirements.

·       Experience applying probabilistic simulations (Monte Carlo/Latin-hypercube) to financial models, @Risk or Crystal ball software experience preferred.

·       Cost estimating professional Certification, such as Certified Cost Estimator/Analyst (CCE/A).

·       Program Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Security Clearance: All personnel must have an active secret clearance.

Cask is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

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