Data Analyst

Description

About Our Company: 

At Cypher Analytics, we take immense pride in being 100% employee-owned! Our unique structure fosters a collaborative and innovative environment where everyone's contributions matter. We share a passion for excellence, teamwork, and driving meaningful results for our clients. Joining us means becoming an integral part of a supportive and empowering community.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Data Analyst to support a large Navy Program. This role will focus on developing and maintaining complex financial and modernization tracking tools, consolidating data from multiple engineering, procurement, and operational sources to drive informed decision-making. The ideal candidate will be an Excel power user with demonstrated experience in linking datasets, building advanced formulas, and developing dynamic dashboards to support fielding, budgeting, and procurement planning.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• Active Security Clearance Required.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting DoD or Navy readiness, systems engineering, logistics, or data analysis.
• Bachelor’s degree in a Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• Expert-level Excel skills, including but not limited to: Advanced formulas (e.g., INDEX/MATCH, nested IFs, array formulas), PivotTables, Pivot Charts, and data modeling, Complex workbook linking and dynamic dashboards, Data validation, error-checking, and automation tools.
• Strong understanding of federal acquisition, budgeting cycles, and program planning.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Project, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in summarizing complex technical data and fleet feedback for senior audiences.

Essential Functions:

• Maintain and enhance the Material & Modernization (M&M) Tracker, integrating data from multiple sources into a unified and accurate analysis tool.
• Perform data consolidation and trend analysis to provide insight into historical, current, and forecasted procurement and installation efforts.
• Coordinate with Advance Planners to integrate planned procurement and fielding efforts into program forecasts.
• Collaborate with the Network Integration Engineering Facility (NIEF) to monitor inventory, hardware deliveries, and system swaps.
• Partner with Contracts Team to align financial data with contractual delivery schedules and obligations.
• Support APMs/PAPMs and leadership with timely and accurate responses to ad-hoc data calls, especially regarding installation timelines, hardware/software forecasts, and procurement costs.
• Provide financial and schedule data to the BFM Office in support of: Budget submissions, Program Objective Memorandum (POM) justifications, Congressional reporting (briefs, RFIs, impact statements).
• Monitor and report on deviations in cost, schedule, or performance; develop and present mitigation strategies to stakeholders.
• Contribute weekly updates to the WAN Weekly Report and WAN Dashboard to ensure program leadership has a clear, up-to-date view of progress and issues.

Cypher Analytics offers to eligible employees:

• Employee Covered Medical, Dental, LTD, and Life Insurance
• 401(k) Matching and Employee Stock Ownership Program
• Training and Teambuilding Events
• Annual Tuition Reimbursement, Certification and Training Reimbursement