Lead Cost Control Specialist

Lead Specialist, Cost Control

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Lead Specialist, Cost Control

Program Summary

KBR's Readiness and Sustainment (R&S) division is the Team Behind the Mission®. We deliver mission critical services to the U.S. military and coalition partners around the world. Our key capabilities include base operations; contingency and expeditionary support; next generation asset management; digitally focused logistics; prepositioned stock; and integrated supply chain management.

Job Summary

The Lead Project Control Specialist will serve as a key contributor within both project and functional teams, engaging with all levels of Program and Finance Management as well as cross-functional colleagues. This role is responsible for developing forecasts, monitoring project risks, maintaining cost controls, and preparing cashflow reports, while ensuring full compliance across an assigned portfolio of projects with varying contract types, terms, and levels of complexity.

Additionally, the position supports project-level accounting, financial management reporting, customer-related deliverables, and the administration of the change control process. The Lead Project Control Specialist will also oversee the execution of functional objectives by providing leadership, guidance, and direction to team members, and will contribute to the development of broader functional strategies.

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), perform maintenance and charge number control.

• Basic Qualifications

• Recognized professional qualification (CA/CWA/ACCA or CIMA) with relevant work-experience of 10+ years or Semi-qualified professionals / undergraduate / Post graduate degree in commerce with minimum 15 years of relevant work experience.
• Mastery of complex program management concepts (cost analysis, budgets, estimate to complete, etc.).
• Knowledge of financial accounting principles as they relate to U.S. GAAP.
• Strong understanding of government contracting fundamentals as well as government regulations and standards.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.  Highly advanced Excel skills.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with standard government agency reporting requirements ( DOD).
• Cost Point, Cobra, Cognos, OnBase, Deltek and WorkDay experience. 
• Advanced skills with reporting through Microsoft Power BI
• Must be capable of working independently under pressure with minimal supervision. 
• Familiar with often-changing deadlines, inquiries, and related pressures and able to handle multiple tasks. 
• Demonstrated strong work ethics, mathematical/analytical skills; excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience Level

Senior Level