Project Cost Administrator

**Permanent Full-time Opportunity**:

- **Location: Sydney - **Work from home flexibility**:

- **Grow your career in a supportive and inclusive environment**

**About Ampol**:
As one of Australia’s lead mobility enablers, the development of electric vehicles and other non-traditional transport fuels present an opportunity for Ampol to decarbonise the transport market and leverage our existing position into clean charging infrastructure.

Energy Transition and Decarbonisation is one of Ampol’s four strategic pillars, a key priority area that will help ensure we deliver on our purpose to ‘power better journeys today and tomorrow’.

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**About the role**:
The objective of the National Deployment team is to support our energy offering to ensure we continue to meet the ongoing needs of our customers.

As a Project Cost Administrator you will be responsible for providing cost control to the execution phase of Ampol’s Future Energy and Decarbonisation Strategy in the project areas of electric vehicle charging stations, solar PV systems and battery storage devices deployed to Ampol and non Ampol sites.

You will be working with the Deployment team to ensure project cost controls are implemented, monitored and consistently adopted across the group to ensure that capital projects are performed accordingly.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Performing cost control activities on assigned Future Energy projects including financial management, invoice processing and forecasting
- Monitoring project spend to budget across concurrent project spends
- Track and monitor quotations and purchase orders against final invoice amounts for variations
- Liaising with Deployment Managers to confirm scope of commitments and payment authentication
- Process receipting of invoices into SAP upon approval of the Deployment Manager / Program Manager
- Timely preparation of project cost and progress reports performed on major discrepancies
- Engaging with 3rd party delivery partners and consultants, where required, to discuss and resolve invoice and or payment queries, purchase order details

As we grow, this role may also grow, and reasonable changes may need to be made in accordance with the needs of the business.

**About you**:
You demonstrate a proactive mindset and the ability to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders and internal teams to achieve the strategic goals of the organisation. We are ideally looking for an outcome focused individual with previous experience in the implementation and ongoing stewardship of cost control and cost management initiatives supporting a portfolio of capital projects within a large scale.

A Technical qualification in Commerce, Project Management, or a similar field is also desirable.

**Key skills and experience**:

- SAP P50 projects and cost centre platform
- Business Warehouse (BW) and Power BI
- Advanced competencies in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Business partnership skills with the ability to drive a culture of effective cost control and improvements
- Excellent communication and proven experience in building relationships
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Ability to manage time and workload independently while managing multiple priorities simultaneously to deliver quality output

**Our benefits**:

- **Our total remuneration is competitive**. This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on Fuel for two privately used cars
- **We are flexible**. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
- **We value recognition.** We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
- **Career development** and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions
- **Paid Parental Leave** - up to 12 weeks paid Parental leave, and up to a year off (unpaid)
- **BabyCare Package** - financial and flexible support for parents transitioning back to work
- **Need some wheels**? Novated Lease options are available
- Invest in your future with the **Employee Share Scheme**:

- **Care for your Community.** Spend one paid day a year volunteering with one of our Ampol Foundation partners.
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**Applications close December 2nd