Senior Program Acquisition Budget Analyst

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Senior Program Acquisition Budget Analyst

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KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

• Innovative Projects: KBR’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

KBR is seeking a Senior Program Acquisition Budget Analyst to oversee and manage the budget and provide financial management of ongoing projects and portfolios in support of on behalf of our team supporting our customer in Chantilly, VA that delivers mission-critical capabilities directly supporting intelligence-gathering missions from overhead systems.  We lead architectural assessments and report recommendations to senior US Government personnel guiding acquisition and execution of next-generation SIGINT systems needs for the next 10-20 years.  These systems deliver collected data distributed to US Government Intelligence Community and Military users.

The Program Acquisition Budget Analyst serves as an advisor supporting the  Government with regular interface with technical planners, contract administrators, and multiple levels of government leaders and decision makers to facilitate understanding of the budget and resource requirements and brief the status of project execution and requirements.  The SIGINT leadership team embraces innovation in a relentless effort to meet intelligence needs and shorten the timelines to provide actionable critical information to US Government decision-makers.  This is a position of trust advising the US Government and supporting critical missions in SIGINT, COMINT, FISINT, and ELINT. 

This is a contingent position based upon contract award

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Perform complex financial analysis of budgets and schedules needed to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program(s)
• Identifies tradeoffs within and among competing programs and provides executive managers with resource alternatives
• Review and consolidate program baseline and program spend plans as the basis of recommendations to authorized Government personnel
• Ensure coordination and completeness of budget estimates and requirements for new and existing initiatives on funding impacts on existing program budgets and schedules and recommend resource solutions
• Make recommendations regarding Directorate submissions for budget exercises and the IPBS, CBJB, and CJB.
• Make recommendations regarding cross-program analyses and resolve cross-program, discrepancies prior to submission for executive management review
• Evaluate Directorate budget execution, assessing the impact of developing trends and issues using appropriate methodologies to determine if the program is proceeding within available resources and is consistent with goals
• Draft feedback and provide recommendations on cross-program resource issues arising from PMRs and/or BMRs

Minimum qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Bachelor's degree (Master's degree preferred)
• 5+ years of experience
• Experience with financial budgets and program financial execution as well as technical aspects of current and future SIGINT programs
• Familiarity with IPBS and CBJB budgets, schedules and associated documentation is required
• Strong understanding of the entire budget process for Major System Acquisitions (MSAs)
• Ability to review architectures and understand technical aspects for costing
• Supports the development of acquisition plans and strategies for system acquisitions and system architectures

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR
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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.