Cost Control Lead
Qatar
Parttime: 0 hrs a week
Experience: Not applicable
Conventional Energy
Introduction
- Provide expert professional advice and guidance in allocation, planning and stewardship for costs and expenditures for Compression Project.
- Develop and modify procedures to meet specialized business requirements, providing advice and guidance to all team members as required.
What are you going to do
- Develop efficient cost services and provide expert advice on cost accounting, allocation, planning and control issues to ensure effective processes are utilized throughout the project life cycle.
- Review and evaluate assumptions and cost plan data to ensure cost centre owners and project management are fully appraised on cost governance requirements and the project complies with approved budget.
- Identify opportunities to standardize cost and expenditure processes and procedures recommending solutions for cost issues to ensure compliance and project objectives are achieved.
- Provide Funding Packages submittals i.e. Advance Commitments (AC's), Full Funding (FF) and Supplementary Funding wherever required, to ensure that all necessary funding is provided.
- Develop and maintain a cost and man-hours information database, benchmarking data to provide support for estimating requirements as required.
- Review cost related procedures, recommending improvements to achieve project goals and ensure cost related initiatives, procedures and activities are understood and followed by all project personnel.
- Participate in corporate governance activities such as Gate reviews, Independent Project Reviews (IPRs), Cold Eye Review (CER), Constructability Reviews (CRRs) and internal audits as Cost Subject Matter Expert.
- Provide timely project controls/change management expert advice to Project Management Team (PMT), as well as monthly cost reports highlighting any emerging situations such as cost overruns or re-baseline ensuring project deliverables are achieved.
- Able to estimate the cost for potential change orders with the Contractor. Has extensive experience in cost estimating for projects.
- Manages the Management of Change process for large capital project.
Essential skills and knowledge
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Project management or Accounting/finance.
- 8 years' experience in cost allocation, estimation, planning and expenditure working within a Project environment in the oil and gas industry.
- Experience of working in SAP/BI environment is preferable.
- Must be able to have the capability to technically grasp the project scope of work and execution strategies.
- Excellent written and spoken English skills.
- Strong analytical, commercial and problem-solving skills.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Computer literate in all Microsoft office packages and some technical packages.
What we offer
- Salary:
- Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
- Work Schedule:
- 10 Hours / 6 Days
- Duration:
- 36 Months, with possible extension
- Location:
- Qatar