The posting
Title:
IT FP&A Manager
At KBR, We Deliver.
KBR's Corporate team provides the financial insight, strategic planning, and performance management that help drive decision-making across our global business. Working closely with executive leadership, business units, and functional teams, we support forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, capital allocation, and financial analysis to enable sustainable growth and shareholder value. Our focus is on transforming data into actionable insights that guide the company's strategic priorities and operational performance.
We are seeking a commercially minded and analytically strong IT FP&A Manager to lead budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis and decision support for STS IT costs.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A, the role will partner closely with IT leadership, Corporate FP&A, Accounting and business finance teams. The IT FP&A Manager will provide clear insight into IT expenditure, investment, cost drivers, allocations and recoveries, helping IT and finance leaders understand performance, manage risks and make informed decisions.
The role will be responsible for developing credible and transparent forecasts across IT operating costs, capital investment, cash flow and business allocations. The IT FP&A Manager will not have formal direct reports but will leverage support from the Corporate FP&A Analyst and the wider Chennai FP&A function to deliver planning, reporting and analysis requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the annual budget, periodic forecast and long-range planning processes for IT.
- Develop detailed forecasts by IT function, service, initiative, project and cost category.
- Partner with IT leaders and budget owners to understand operational requirements, workforce plans, contracts, project expenditure and other cost drivers.
- Provide clear analysis of actual and forecast IT performance against budget, prior forecast and prior year.
- Produce concise executive-level commentary explaining key variances, risks, opportunities and required management actions.
- Maintain clear visibility over IT operating expenditure, capital investment, depreciation, cash flow and total cost.
- Develop and maintain transparent forecasting models for IT cost allocations and recoveries.
- Analyse allocation and recovery outcomes, including under-recovery, over-recovery, stranded-cost and forecast risks.
- Help regional and business finance teams understand IT charges, allocation drivers and the effect of changes in IT costs or consumption.
- Partner with IT leadership and Corporate FP&A to assess investment proposals, business cases, sourcing decisions and cost-efficiency opportunities.
- Undertake scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis to support technology, operational and financial decisions.
- Monitor IT initiatives and portfolios against approved budgets, forecasts and expected financial outcomes.
- Produce regular IT financial dashboards and decision-support materials for the CIO, IT leadership, STS Ops CFO, Director of FP&A and Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A.
- Coordinate the timely collection, review and consolidation of financial inputs from IT budget owners and relevant finance teams.
- Direct and coordinate leveraged analytical support from the Corporate FP&A Analyst and Chennai FP&A function, setting clear deliverables, timelines and review expectations without formal line-management responsibility.
- Work closely with Accounting to ensure IT costs, accruals, capital expenditure, prepayments, leases, allocations and recoveries are appropriately reflected in management reporting.
- Support Accounting by providing relevant operational information for material accruals, accounting assessments and cost-allocation entries, while maintaining clear accountability between FP&A and Accounting.
- Reconcile management reporting and forecasts to the general ledger and investigate material differences with Accounting.
- Improve forecast accuracy, data quality and transparency over IT financial performance.
- Drive continuous improvement and automation across IT planning, reporting and cost-allocation processes.
- Promote a culture of financial ownership, collaboration, service and continuous improvement across IT and Finance.
Key relationships
- Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A
- Director, FP&A
- STS Ops CFO
- CIO and IT leadership
- IT budget and service owners
- Corporate FP&A Analyst and Chennai FP&A function
- Corporate Accounting
- Regional and business FP&A teams
- Procurement, Treasury and Tax
- Enterprise IT and Enterprise FP&A stakeholders
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics or a related discipline.
- Recognised accounting qualification, CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent preferred; an MBA would also be advantageous.
- At least six years of progressive FP&A, commercial finance, IT finance or related financial experience.
- Demonstrable experience of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and variance analysis.
- Experience managing or analysing technology costs, corporate functions or other complex shared-service expenditure.
- Experience developing or managing cost-allocation and recovery models.
- Strong understanding of operating expenditure, capital expenditure, depreciation and cash-flow forecasting.
- Ability to understand contracts, workforce costs, technology projects and service-cost drivers.
- Experience partnering with senior finance and non-finance stakeholders and constructively challenging assumptions.
- Ability to translate complex financial information into concise executive-level insight and recommendations.
- Experience coordinating work through matrixed or offshore support teams would be advantageous.
- Working knowledge of US GAAP and accounting close processes.
- Strong financial modelling and systems capability.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI skills.
- Experience with Oracle EPM, Oracle FCCS, Deltek Costpoint, SAP, Dynamics 365 or Apptio would be advantageous.
- Government contracting and indirect-cost allocation experience would be advantageous where relevant to the STS business.
Candidate attributes
- Commercially minded, analytical and intellectually curious.
- Able to understand both financial detail and the operational drivers of IT costs.
- Comfortable challenging assumptions and working with incomplete or changing information.
- Strong commitment to accuracy, transparency and data integrity.
- Collaborative and service-oriented, while maintaining appropriate financial discipline.
- Able to communicate complex allocation and cost information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Able to coordinate and review work delivered through matrixed support resources.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, global and matrixed organisation.
- Proactive, well organised and able to manage competing priorities.
- Demonstrates ownership, sound judgement and a continuous-improvement mindset.
Working model
- Houston-based hybrid role, with attendance at KBR headquarters as required.
KBR Benefits
KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.
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