IT FP&A Manager

KBR•Houston, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

KBR is seeking a commercially minded, analytically strong IT FP&A Manager to lead budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, and decision support for STS IT costs. The role partners with IT leadership, Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and business finance teams, providing clear insight into IT expenditure, investment, cost drivers, allocations, and recoveries to support informed decisions and risk management. The manager develops transparent forecasts covering IT operating costs, capital investment, cash flow, and business allocations. The role has no formal direct reports, but coordinates analytical support from the Corporate FP&A Analyst and the wider Chennai FP&A function. It reports to the Senior Manager, Corporate FP&A and is based in Houston with a hybrid working model and attendance at KBR headquarters as required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
At least six years of progressive FP&A, commercial finance, IT finance, or related financial experience.
Demonstrable experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and variance analysis.
Experience managing or analyzing 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.
Working knowledge of US GAAP and accounting close processes.
Strong financial modelling and systems capability.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI skills.
Commercially minded, analytical, intellectually curious, and able to understand financial detail and operational drivers of IT costs.
Comfort with challenging assumptions and working with incomplete or changing information; commitment to accuracy, transparency, and data integrity.
Collaborative and service-oriented, with appropriate financial discipline, and able to communicate complex cost information clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
Able to coordinate and review work delivered through matrixed support resources, manage competing priorities, and operate in a fast-paced, global, matrixed organization.
Proactive, well organized, and demonstrates ownership, sound judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

Recognized accounting qualification such as CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
MBA.
Experience coordinating work through matrixed or offshore support teams.
Experience with Oracle EPM, Oracle FCCS, Deltek Costpoint, SAP, Dynamics 365, or Apptio.
Government contracting and indirect-cost allocation experience, where relevant to the STS business.

Responsibilities

Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range planning 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.
Analyze actual and forecast IT performance against budget, prior forecast, and prior year, and prepare concise executive commentary on variances, risks, opportunities, and management actions.
Maintain visibility over IT operating expenditure, capital investment, depreciation, cash flow, and total cost.
Develop and maintain transparent forecasts for IT cost allocations and recoveries, and analyze under-recovery, over-recovery, stranded costs, and forecast risks.
Help regional and business finance teams understand IT charges, allocation drivers, and the effects 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.
Conduct 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 timely collection, review, and consolidation of financial inputs from IT budget owners and relevant finance teams.
Coordinate analytical support from the Corporate FP&A Analyst and Chennai FP&A function by setting deliverables, timelines, and review expectations, without formal line-management responsibility.
Work with Accounting to ensure IT costs, accruals, capital expenditure, prepayments, leases, allocations, and recoveries are appropriately reflected in management reporting.
Provide Accounting with 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 financial ownership, collaboration, service, and continuous improvement across IT and Finance.