Secret Cost Analyst
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Insight Global is seeking a Cost Analyst to support a national security and defense consulting client in a DoD environment. The role focuses on cost estimating, modeling, data analysis, and risk and uncertainty analysis, while supporting acquisition and program-control activities. The analyst will develop cost products, perform analytical tasks, brief findings to leadership, and provide remote and occasional onsite support.
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Job Description
This position requires a U.S. Secret Clearance and is willing to pay between $80,000-100,000 depending on experience and qualifications.
This is a client facing role.
Insight Global is seeking a Cost Analyst for a top national security and defense consulting client. This candidate will provide cost analysis and program management support within a DoD environment, focusing on development and production cost estimating, cost modeling, data analysis, and risk and uncertainty analysis. The Cost Analyst will develop and maintain key cost products, independently perform analytical tasks, brief findings to leadership, and assist with acquisition and program-control activities. This is an excellent opportunity for an analyst looking to support high-impact national security initiatives in a remote or hybrid environment.
Day-to-Day:
- Perform development and production cost estimating and modeling
- Develop and maintain cost models and supporting documentation
- Conduct cost risk and uncertainty analysis
- Analyze cost data and develop cost-analysis deliverables
- Brief analysis and work products to program leadership
- Support acquisition strategy, scheduling, and program-management documentation
- Collaborate with Program Control and other cross-functional teams Provide remote and occasional onsite support as needed
Skills and Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM, Computer Science, or related technical field
- 3-4 years of Cost Analysis experience
- Internship and/or academic experience can apply
- Experience developing and working with cost models
- Experience conducting cost data analysis
- Ability to independently complete cost analysis tasks
- Active DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain/maintain one
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 459 open Cost Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$80–100K/yr
- US median$86–159K/yr342 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $90K, is 24% below the US median midpoint ($118K) — in the lowest quarter of Cost Analyst salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Cost Analyst jobs in Washington, D.C. and 459 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Cost Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 374 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 244 of the 459 open Cost Analyst jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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