Team Leader Cost Control

2 weeks ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Santos Ltd Full time

About Us


Santos is a global low-cost producer of oil and gas committed to ever-cleaner energy and fuels production with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and North America.


At Santos, our commitment is to be a global leader in the transition to cleaner energy and clean fuels, by helping the world decarbonise to reach net-zero emissions in an affordable and sustainable way.


Santos is one of Australia's biggest domestic gas suppliers, a leading Asia Pacific LNG supplier and is committed to supplying the critical fuels such as oil and gas in a more sustainable way through decarbonising projects such as Moomba CCS project.


For more than 65 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing local jobs and business opportunities, safely and sustainably developing its natural gas resources, and powering industries and households.


With a strong, low-cost base business supplying oil and gas and a clear action plan to develop cleaner energy and clean fuels, Santos remains resilient, value accretive and at the leading edge of energy transition.

With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities.

Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.


About the Role
An exciting opportunity to be part of our Santos' Projects Division for Upstream Onshore Development Team. This role will report to the Project Services Manager and is based in our Brisbane office.


This position's primary objective is to manage the delivery of all cost control related activities, required to support accurate, consistent, and insightful CAPEX and OPEX management for the Onshore Drilling and Completions Team.

Accountabilities are delivered in line with the Santos company values and Santos Management System (SMS).

Key responsibilities of the role include:

  • Manage the delivery of all cost control activities including, overhead distribution, project accruals, cost allocation reviews, earned value and value of work done analysis.
  • Manage the trend identification, endorsement, and notification process, required to ensure accurate CAPEX and OPEX LE within broader program and project reporting.
  • Drive and maintain cost tracking accuracy to within acceptable parameters through continuous review and feedback to the engineering team.
  • Perform the primary interface role between Onshore D&C and Finance
  • Ensure teambased alignment to and compliance against the Onshore D&C management and audit standards (including the cost estimation guideline and cost control guideline).
  • Ensure adherence to endorsed cost, operating and work breakdown structures to enable direct comparability across the Onshore Upstream portfolio.
  • Oversee AFE, project funding requirements and budget control points, interfacing proactively with the Finance team.
  • Facilitate business process audits to assess strength of internal controls; implement improvements where gaps and shortfalls are identified.
  • Oversee the development and maintenance of overarching cost control guidelines, methodologies, and papers to ensure remit standardisation, efficiency, and adherence to JOAs.
  • Building relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure understanding and alignment across budget, scope, and execution outcomes.
  • Mentor and engage team members to drive change and continuous improvement mindset.
  • Sharing relevant business analysis and lessons learnt with the wider Cost Control & Planning teams.
  • Providing adhoc reporting and scenario analysis as required.
  • Compliance with the Santos Management System (SMS).
  • Compliance with the Santos Delegation of Authority (DOA).
  • Compliance with the Santos Corporate Governance and Safety requirements.

About You

  • Extensive experience in project services or business services.
  • Demonstrated experience in the oil and gas (or other major resource) industry in leadership roles.
  • Direct responsibility for managing budgets of more than A$250m p.a.
  • Proficient in the use of visualisation software (e.g., TIBCO Spotfire, Power BI) and Microsoft Office software, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio.
  • Proficiency in the use of large ERP systems.
  • Managing, motivating, and leading teams of professionals.
  • Experience supporting nonfinancial operational personnel, and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely to key stakeholders and senior management.
  • Exposure managing and distilling large, complex data sets with a heightened attention to detail.


Ideally, you are degree qualified in accounting, commerce, engineering or equivalent and demonstrated ability to work in a team-based environment.


Supporting a Diverse Workforce
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