Cost Controller

**Cost Controller - Brisbane/PNG**

**About Santos**

Santos is a leading independent 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, Santos has been supplying reliable and affordable energy for over 65 years.

**About the Assignment**

This position is responsible for providing cost control support to the PNG Construction & Fixed Assets team in the Production Operations division of Santos. This position will support the Cost Control Lead and provide cost control services for the PNG Construction & Fixed Assets Portfolio.

**Tasks include**:

- Manage the cost control activities for the assigned PNG Construction & Fixed Asset Portfolio.
- Prepare month end activities (Cost Transfers, Journals, Accruals, Variance Commentary).
- Coordinate and prepare overall reporting and variance analysis against approved WBS, annual budgets, and forecasts.
- Monthly preparation of the Dashboard and present to the business owners (including actuals / forecasting).
- Maintain Prism monthly - capex spends, forecasting and budgeting.
- Review/advise on EPC contractor performance reports, schedules, estimates, statistics
- Preparation of AFE/WBS templates (establish if in budget, seek appropriate internal management (and joint venture participant) approvals before issuing to Finance). Managing Budget Substitutions.
- SAP Interface - Creation of Networks to settle to applicable WBS’s, WO Settlement Rule Monitoring
- Review of cost coding of C&FA and EPC related vendor invoices prior to SES’ing.
- Ensure that agreed plans, procedures, systems and guidelines are correctly implemented and followed.
- Business partnering with team leads - C&FA PNG projects & engineering (AUS and PNG based), Project Control and Finance Functional Team Members PNG, EPC Contractor Project Controls team
- Budget preparation - working with the business to collate annual, longer range budgets.
- Dispute resolution
- Housekeeping, closure of Networks, PO’s & WBS’s

**This assignment is initially offered for 12 months, engaged via Chandler Macleod.**

**Location for this assignment is Brisbane working full-time office hours**

**About You**
- Bachelors’ degree in Engineering, Finance, Business or equivalent
- Minimum of 5-10 years of cost control experience
- Strong depth and technical competency in cost engineering, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Demonstrated understanding of project services and contracting/procurement disciplines, planning/scheduling and their relationships to cost control activities.
- Highly effective communication skills and ability to develop and present management reports at all levels, including presentations to management.
- Demonstrated interpersonal/teambuilding skills.
- Analytical/technical skills with a practical approach to problem solving.
- SAP experience in Oil and Gas environment.
- Prism experience in Oil and Gas environment - preferably across portfolio of projects

**How to Apply**

**_ To be considered for this assignment you must have current work rights in Australia (i.e., Australian citizenship, permanent residency, or eligible working visa)._**

***_We comply with all relevant State, Territory and International Covid-19 laws and health orders, including but not limited to vaccinations, safe travel, and declarations of health. We acknowledge that these laws and health orders will vary and may change over time. We encourage all applicants to check and consider the impact of the relevant laws and health orders on your availability for this assignment and work location._