Title:
Cost Control Supervisor
KBR Government Solutions delivers full life cycle professional and technical solutions that improve operational readiness and drive innovation. Our solutions help ensure mission success on land, air, sea, space and cyberspace for the Department of Defense, intelligence community, NASA and other federal agencies. KBR’s areas of expertise include engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity.
Our people make the world a more productive, efficient and fascinating place. And that’s only the beginning.
(Cost Control Supervisor) Lead Specialist, Cost Control
Applicant will be primarily responsible for Program Planning and Control for various contract types and sizes. Responsibilities include:
- Forecasts, controls, and reports project costs needed within an organization.
- Develops and provides project variances, trending and analysis of expenditures, and completion reports.
- Reviews project costs incurred by category, calculates future costs based on labor productivity, material price increases, subcontract, wage rates and risk analysis.
- Establishes priorities for the completion of assigned tasks.
- Lead cross-functional teams to establish decision options.
- Recognize need and provide mentoring and training.
- Develop and carry out long- and short-term objectives and balance multiple priorities.
- Identify, diagnose and resolve complex problems independently.
- Uses judgment to interpret internal and external issues and develop best practices.
- Relies upon experience, interpersonal skills, and broad knowledge of project controls to ensure task completion in compliance with policies, procedures, and business strategy.
- Develop and control baselines and budgets.
- Monitor schedule/milestones to facilitate estimates to complete and process scope changes.
- Prepare and deliver customer report deliverables per the contract terms and conditions.
- Analyze/modify cost estimates and re-baseline programs as the need is identified.
- Prepare forecasts using program resource estimates with appropriately applied rates and factors.
- Develop price/cost estimates utilizing complex pricing concepts and applications.
- Application of FAR, CAS and government accounting standards.
- Develop Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), perform maintenance and charge number control.
- Perform unique and complex accounting and analytical tasks, including account reconciliation and balance sheet analysis.
- Analyze program funding requirements and track subcontractor costs & fee.
- Develop presentations and reports for internal and external customers.
- Track, trend, forecast and analyze subcontractor and vendor invoices.
- Collaborate with Program Management and Customer personnel to achieve financial and contractual deliverables.
- Implement process improvement initiatives within the Finance/Program group.
- Participates in the development of functional strategy and may be responsible for global processes and procedures.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance in addition to 10+ years of related experience.
- Mastery of complex program management concepts (budgets, estimate to complete, project schedules, etc.).
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Highly advanced Excel skills.
- Must be CAC eligible.
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with standard government agency reporting requirements (NASA, DOD).
- Understanding of Earned Value Management System (EVMS) reporting.
- Expertise in use of Costpoint, COBRA, COGNOS.
- Six Sigma/Greenbelt certification.
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
KBR is a global provider of differentiated professional services and solutions across the asset and program life cycle within the government services and technology sectors. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in 40 countries. ?
KBR is proud to work with customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long- term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
