Lead Program Analyst

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

Description of Duties:

We're looking for a Lead Program Analyst for our clients' Missile Defense Division. The Lead Program Analyst reports to the Earned Value (EV) Manager supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) Contract. The Lead Program Analyst will lead a team of analysts that are matrixed across multiple task orders, performing advanced data analysis to improve program performance and achieve organizational goals.

The candidate will be responsible for the following:

Leadership & Management:

• Provide day-to-day leadership, guidance and mentorship to the analysts and other team members on best practices and EV principles
• Develop and deliver training to project personnel on program requirements, tools, processes, and best practices
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and support the adoption and testing of new analysis 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 performance 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 (full-time) work experience
  • May be reduced with completion of advanced education
• Must have 8, or more, years of directly related / specialized experience as an EV analyst
• Must have 5, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role
• Must have, or obtain, an active DoD Secret Security Clearance

Desired Requirements:

• Have experience building, managing, and motivating a team to deliver high-quality products that are reliable for near-real-time decision making
• Have experience providing direct support to Account Managers, Project Managers, and contract leadership performing in-depth financial analysis
• Have experience leading the preparation and execution of monthly integrated program management reports
• Have 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

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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