Cost Controller

4 days 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.

We are committed to working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, and safely developing natural gas resources to power industries and households.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled 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 from fund approval to total investment and closure.

Key Responsibilities
  • Budget Management: Monitor and control developed budgets, ensuring adherence to financial thresholds and targets.
  • Forecast Management: Support the 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.
  • Project Delivery: Directly support major project delivery, measuring schedule and cost variances from the project baseline and taking appropriate action with the project management team.
  • 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 and Trend Management: Support the named processes, ensuring that scope, schedule, and cost are accounted for and appropriately managed.
  • Data Management: Manage schedule, capital, and execution data in line with approved cost, operating, and work breakdown structures to enable direct comparability across the Onshore Upstream portfolio.
About You

To be successful in this role, you will have the ability to work both autonomously and within a team environment, develop and maintain strong business relationships, and partner with various stakeholders across the business.

You will have a keen eye for detail and hold strong business acumen. Essential experience required for this position includes:

  • 3+ years' Project Controls and Project Services experience across major capital programs or projects
  • 3+ years' experience in the oil and gas or mining (or other major resource) industries
  • Direct responsibility for managing budgets of more than A$25m 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 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.

Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander jobseekers are strongly encouraged to apply.


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