Senior Principal Budget Analyst

Northrop Grumman

Senior Principal Budget Analyst providing financial oversight and analysis for Northrop Grumman's operations sectors. Collaborating with leaders on strategic financial planning and reporting.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $92,200 - $145,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CognosTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support Navigation, Intelligence & Connectivity (NIC) and Multidomain Sensing, Targeting & Survivability (MSTS) Divisions Leadership and Sector Rates and Budget teams within the NIC/MSTS Division.
Provide financial oversight in the development and implementation of various projects.
Evaluate processes across the Mission Systems sector with focus on standardization of best practices, processes, tools and procedures.
Financial data collection, consolidation, interpretation, and analysis.
Preparing financial plans and assessing impacts from major program awards on facility utilization and future needs.
Preparing regular and special-purpose reports.
Assessing impacts of organizational and operational changes for proper evaluation and incorporation into budgets.
Presenting results of analysis for evaluation by Director level staff.
Preparing comparative evaluation of actual costs against budgeted funds.
Analyzing trends and reviewing Actuals to Budgets monthly with budget owners; updating forecast as needed.
Providing financial oversight in the development and implementation of material rates.
Provide leadership, critical thinking, long range strategic planning and innovative behaviors.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree plus 8 years related work experience – OR – a Master’s Degree with 6 years of related work experience.
Experience in cost control, financial analysis, or accounting.
High level of understanding of Government Compliance
Experience in Overhead rate preparation and analysis.
Experience with financial systems and financial planning software including SAP/S4 and Cognos Resource Budgets
Strong Data Mining and Database management background including experience with MS Excel, MS Access, MS Query, Tableau and Power BI.
Experience with Pivot tables, conditional formatting and slicer tools to provide analysis.
Experience with MS Project
US Citizenship is required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health Plan
Savings Plan
Paid Time Off
Additional Benefits including Education Assistance
Training and Development
9/80 Work Schedule (where available)

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial analysiscost controloverhead rate preparationdata miningdatabase managementfinancial planningbudgetingtrend analysisforecastingreport preparation

Soft Skills

leadershipcritical thinkingstrategic planninginnovation