ICF
Senior Pricing Associate
Reston, VA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$74k-$125kDetected 7 hours ago
Financial AnalysisAccountingExcelLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMicrosoft Office
About the role
- ICF is seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative Senior Pricing Associate to join our Corporate Pricing Team.
- The successful candidate will bring strong Excel skills, analytical curiosity, attention to detail, professionalism, and the ability to balance multiple assignments in a deadline-driven proposal environment.
- Working at ICF ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we're not your typical consultants.
Responsibilities
- Support the development of timely, accurate, compliant, and competitive cost and business proposals that help ICF compete effectively and deliver strong value to clients.
- Review requests for proposals and related documents to identify pricing requirements, evaluation criteria, submission instructions, compliance considerations, assumptions, and potential issues.
- Build, maintain, update, and quality-check standard pricing models, including labor, other direct costs, travel, subcontractor costs, indirect rates, fees, and escalation assumptions, with limited oversight.
- Collect, organize, and review cost inputs from operations, subcontractors, finance, contracts, and other stakeholders to support complete and accurate pricing submissions.
- Perform standard cost analyses, variance checks, and pricing summaries to support proposal reviews, internal approvals, and stakeholder decision-making.
- Document pricing assumptions, methodologies, supporting rationale, and open questions so proposal teams and reviewers can understand how pricing supports the proposed technical approach.
- Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve routine pricing questions, clarify inputs, and support timely proposal delivery.
- Share knowledge, answer routine questions, and provide informal support to newer pricing team members as needed.
- Contribute ideas to improve pricing templates, tools, quality controls, and processes that support consistency, compliance, and efficiency across proposals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience supporting pricing, cost analysis, financial analysis, proposal development, government contracting, professional services pricing, or related business operations.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, data organization, workbook review, quality checks, and the ability to work with detailed pricing models.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work accurately with financial, operational, and proposal data.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize assumptions, inputs, analyses, and open questions for pricing team members and proposal stakeholders.
- Ability to work core hours Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Nice to have
- Exposure to government contracting, proposal development, professional services pricing, cost accounting principles, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
- Experience reviewing solicitation instructions, pricing templates, evaluation criteria, contract requirements, and compliance considerations.
- Ability to prepare standard cost analyses, variance checks, pricing summaries, and supporting documentation for proposal reviews or internal approvals.
- Experience using Microsoft Office tools, including Word, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, ask thoughtful questions, resolve routine issues constructively, and escalate complex matters appropriately.
- Curiosity, initiative, and a desire to continue growing within pricing, finance, proposal development, government contracting, or business strategy.
- ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we're not your typical consultants.
- We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.
Compensation
- $73,770.00 - $125,408.00
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