Seasonal Life Cycle Analyst Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Family:

Finance & Accounting Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Clearance Required:

Active Secret

What You Will Do:

The Life Cycle Cost Analyst (LCCA) plays a key role in helping organizations make smart, longterm investment decisions. This position focuses on evaluating the full cost of projects or assets-from planning and construction through operation, maintenance, and endoflife.This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys problemsolving, working with data, and translating financial insights into practical recommendations. Applicants with backgrounds in finance, economics, business, construction management, or related fields are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities of this role are as follows, to include but not limited to:

• Serve as the Functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, providing expertise and guidance in support of the Defense & Security Segment - FM Horizontal team.

• Develop, review, and support life-cycle cost analysis activities, methodologies, assumptions, and deliverables in alignment with program and business needs.

• Advise on Economic Analysis, Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, cost estimating, capital investment analysis, and financial management workflows.

• Identify current-state pain points, analyst inputs, review steps, approval expectations, data dependencies, and human review points.

• Support requirements refinement for cost model inputs, assumptions, cost categories, escalation logic, discounting, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, validation rules, and report outputs.

• Review historical analyses, cost models, and decision-support artifacts to identify reusable assumptions, data elements, precedent examples, and common quality issues.

• Help translate business, financial, and mission user needs into functional requirements for technical delivery teams.

• Support validation of sample scenarios, including output completeness, interpretability, traceability, and defensibility.

• Advise on data requirements and data quality challenges, including cost databases, project attributes, asset inventories, historical performance data, and source system limitations.

• Support definition of dashboards, visualizations, reports, and user interfaces that present analytical results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Participate in stakeholder sessions, demonstrations, pilots, testing activities, and user acceptance reviews with Government and internal delivery teams.

• Analyze project alternatives to determine their total cost over the asset's lifespan.

What You Will Need:

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "SECRET" Federal or DoD securityclearance

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business, economics, construction management, engineering, or a related field

• FIVE (5) or more years of experience supporting DoW, federal, and/or large enterprise financial management in cost analysis, economic analysis, and/or capital investment analysis.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Experience with Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, business case analysis, cost estimating, economic analysis, or decision-support workflows.

• Ability to assess cost assumptions, alternative comparisons, analytical outputs, model results, and reviewer-ready documentation.

• Experience developing, validating, reviewing, or using quantitative cost models.

• Familiarity with cost drivers, escalation, discounting, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and scenario comparison.

• Ability to translate functional user needs into clear requirements for technical, analytics, and AI delivery teams.

• Strong written communication, analytical documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Comfort working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in regulated, audit-sensitive, or mission-sensitive environments.

• Strong analytical thinking and problemsolving skills

• Ability to interpret data and translate findings into simple, actionable insights

• Clear written and verbal communication skills

• Experience supporting DoW, federal financial management, facilities, infrastructure, construction, sustainment, or capital planning programs.

• Familiarity with LCCA methodology, NPV analysis, discounting, energy cost analysis, maintenance and repair cost assumptions, and long-term investment planning.

• Experience supporting analytics, automation, AI, workflow modernization, or decision-support modernization efforts as a functional SME.

• Ability to support demonstrations, pilots, training, testing, and user acceptance with Government or enterprise stakeholders.

• Experience with cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, or financial analysis

• Familiarity with facilities, infrastructure, or capital projects

• Exposure to tools such as cost and financial databases, modeling software, or project management systems

The annual salary range for this position is $92,000.00-$153,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

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