Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst

Position Title: Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst 

Location: Arlington, Virginia 

Category: Funded

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time 

Travel Required: Yes 

Shift: Day 

Remote Type: Hybrid 

Clearance required: Top Secret clearance required 

Salary: $150,000-$190,000 

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!  

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Cost, Investment and Business-Case Analyst to provide transparent cost, investment, affordability, and business-case analyses supporting capacity and recovery decisions. 

Responsibilities: 

Cost and Financial Analysis:  

• Develop and evaluate life-cycle, nonrecurring, recurring, unit, capital, operating, and implementation cost estimates for industrial-base initiatives.  

• Assess cost drivers, estimating assumptions, data quality, escalation, phasing, uncertainty, sensitivity, and affordability across alternative courses of action.  

• Analyze contractor and supplier cost submissions, investment requests, rough-order estimates, spend plans, schedules, and supporting evidence.  

• Reconcile cost, budget, obligation, expenditure, production, and schedule data and clearly document sources, methods, limitations, and confidence levels.  

Investment and Business-Case Evaluation: 

• Build business cases for capacity expansion, tooling, facilities, equipment, workforce, technology, supplier development, and production-recovery actions.  

• Compare alternatives using return on investment, net present value, payback, cost avoidance, schedule effect, throughput, readiness, resilience, and mission benefit, as appropriate.  

• Evaluate whether proposed investments address the verified production constraint and whether benefits are measurable, attributable, and achievable within the required timeframe.  

• Identify Government and industry contributions, incentives, dependencies, execution risks, residual risks, and conditions necessary to protect the Government's interest.  

• Develop funding profiles and decision points aligned with program needs, acquisition strategy, budget availability, and implementation milestones.  

Decision Support and Benefits Tracking:  

• Prepare independent assessments, alternatives analyses, investment memoranda, executive briefings, and recommendations for the BOND team, PAEs, and senior leaders.  

• Coordinate with program, engineering, production, contracting, financial-management, legal, and industry stakeholders to validate assumptions and implementation plans.  

• Establish baselines, performance measures, milestones, and benefit-realization plans for approved investments and corrective actions.  

• Monitor cost, schedule, production, and benefit performance; identify variance and recommend corrective action, restructuring, or termination when warranted.  

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in finance, accounting, economics, business, engineering, operations research, supply chain, or a related discipline.  

• 10+ years’ experience in cost analysis, investment analysis, business-case development, financial management, acquisition analysis, or a closely related field. 

• Demonstrated experience developing defensible cost estimates and comparing investment or acquisition alternatives using quantitative and qualitative measures.  

• Experience evaluating capital, production, supplier, infrastructure, technology, or program-improvement proposals and testing underlying assumptions.  

• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and financial modeling, including sensitivity, scenario, cash-flow, and risk analysis.  

• Ability to integrate technical, production, schedule, cost, budget, and financial information into concise senior-leader recommendations.  

• Active Top Secret Clearance required.  

Benefits: 

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance 

• ACT1 Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) 

• Company Paid Life and AD&D Insurance 

• Company Paid Short-Term Disability  

• Voluntary Long-Term Disability 

• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) 

• Health Savings Account (HSA) 

• 401K with employer match 

• Paid Time Off  

• Paid Holidays 

• Parental Leave 

• Military Leave  

• Education, Training & Professional Development  

• Voluntary Accidental Injury/Critical Illness/Hospital Care  

• Voluntary Pet Insurance, Legal Resources, and Identity Protection 

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of flexibility and collaboration, whether that happens in person or remotely. 

• If this position is listed as remote or hybrid, you’ll periodically work from a ACT1 Federal or client site facility.  

• If this position is listed as onsite, you’ll work with colleagues and clients in person, as needed for the specific role. 

 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law.