Senior Cost Controller

4 weeks ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Santos Full time
About Us

Santos is a global energy company with a strong presence in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the United States. Our mission is to provide reliable, affordable energy while transitioning to lower-carbon fuels.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cost Controller to join our Eastern Australia Upstream Project Services Team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering effective program and project control measures, ensuring adherence to financial thresholds and targets.

Key Responsibilities
  • Budget Management: Monitor and control developed budgets, ensuring financial thresholds and targets are met.
  • Forecast Management: Manage timely and accurate submission of monthly capital forecasts at the program and project level.
  • Reporting: Prepare and present regular program and project reports to key stakeholders, highlighting key insights, risks, and opportunities.
  • Controls: Maintain and continuously improve key cost controls and procedures, including earned value management, estimate to complete (ETC) and estimate at completion (EAC) analysis, internal process audits, accruals, and commitment reviews.
  • Stakeholder Management: Partner with budget, scope, and execution owners to provide insights over performance.
  • Change, Trend, and Risk Management: Support the named processes, ensuring scope, schedule, and cost are accounted for, and risk is managed appropriately.
  • Data Management: Manage schedule, capital, and execution data in line with approved cost, operating, and work breakdown structures to enable direct comparability across the portfolio.
About You

To be successful in this role, you will have a demonstrated ability to deliver effective program and project control. You will have directly supported major project delivery, effectively measuring schedule and cost performance and taking appropriate action with a project management team.

We are looking for an engaging individual to mentor and work with junior members of the team, ensuring they are guided, supported, and educated based on best practice.

Requirements
  • 7+ years' Project Controls and Project Services experience across major capital programs or projects.
  • 7+ years' experience in the oil and gas or mining (or other major resource) industries.
  • Direct responsibility for managing budgets of more than A$100m AUD p.a.
  • Proficient in the use of visualisation software (e.g., TIBCO Spotfire, Power BI) and Microsoft Office software.
  • Proficiency in the use of large project-based systems (PRISM and SAP highly regarded).
  • Experience supporting non-financial operational personnel, and the ability to communicate clearly and concisely to key stakeholders.
  • Exposure managing and distilling large, complex data sets with a heightened attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a team-based environment.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, commerce, engineering, or equivalent.
  • Formal Project Management Qualifications (desired, not essential).
About Santos

Santos acknowledges that we operate on the traditional lands of Aboriginal people. We recognise the traditional rights to maintain the culture, identities, traditions, and customs on their country. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected, and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.

We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes us different.



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