Cost Analyst

Cost Analyst

Enjoy problem-solving, need a venue to display your creativity, and emerging technologies peak your interest; if so, Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC is for you. As a multi-disciplined leader, you understand the gifts that set you apart from everyone else. Demonstrate innovative solutions to our clients. Join Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC today.

Responsibilities:

The Cost Analyst will perform the following duties:

• Gather and analyze financial data (material purchases, labor costs, etc.) to uncover inefficiencies
• Generate strategies for obtaining highly competitive prices, analyzing the various ways and means to acquire telecommunications goods and services, customized pricing analysis reports and finding methods of optimizing the contract vehicles in use by customer agencies
• Provide price analyses of contract modifications and new services that support evaluations by the government
• Support pre-award price analysis and the development of alternatives and supporting documentation in areas such as document analysis of vendor price submissions to support negotiations and substantiate fair and reasonable price determinations by a CO
• Create IGCEs
• Create demand sets, collect reference prices, calculate price comparisons, and develop reports
• Leverage professional subscriptions that provide pricing analysis support
• Use and have access to governmental pricing tools, database and systems
• Monitor contracts' price competitiveness and assist in initiatives to seek lower prices from the contractors when needed
• Assist in implementing any price reductions through negotiation, research, and contract modifications
• Research and analyze prices from various sources for comparison to the other contracts.
• Provide price solicitation scope reviews.
• Evaluate the Economic Price Adjustment Price Refreshment.
• Provide for support for the EIS Price Resubmission required by the EIS contract vendors
• Provide pricing analysis for use in presentations, specialized and price reports, white papers, and position papers, and to brief the findings pertaining to pricing analysis
• Provide helpdesk support to customer agencies and host pricer training sessions, as required by the government

An Ideal Candidate has:

• US Citizenship
• Education: Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology)
• Minimum eight years of telecommunications domain experience in the federal government:
• Virtual Private Network Service
• Ethernet Transport Service
• Optical Wavelength Service
• Private Line Service
• Synchronized Optical Network Service
• Dark Fiber Service
• Wide Area Network
• Software-defined Network
• Internet Protocol Service
• Internet Protocol Voice Service
• Circuit Switched Voice Service
• Managed Service
• Expert knowledge and understanding of comparison price sources from other government, commercial sources, and contracts

Barrow Wise Consulting, LLC offers an ethical, challenging, diverse, and rewarding experience. Join us and become part of an enthusiastic, responsible team that delivers innovative solutions to our clients. We provide competitive compensation packages, attractive benefits, and great careers. Barrow Wise is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran/LBGT.

Our employees stand behind Barrow Wise's core values of integrity, quality, innovation, and diversity. We are confident that Barrow Wise's core values, business model, and team focus create positive career paths for our employees. Barrow Wise will continue to lead the industry in delivering new solutions to clients, and persevere until the client is overjoyed.