Ruya Surf Cost Engineer
Qatar, Doha
Parttime: 0 hrs a week
Experience: Not applicable
Conventional Energy
What are you going to do
- In compliance with COMPANY Finance & Cost Control methods, processes, and deadlines:
- To prepare and issue detailed budget.
- To be responsible for cost control, cost reporting and invoice processing activities of the package.
- To supply Lead Cost Engineer with cost and budget updates for internal and external reporting.
- To perform quantitative Cost forecast for the package.
- To perform all other activities related to Cost Control related to the perimeter.
- To promote & comply with applicable safety instruction and other Company HSE procedures in all activities
- To carry out work in compliance with Company values and policies, relevant laws and regulations, agreed Company priorities and objectives, Company standards and procedures and good industry practices
- To treat all information obtained during course of the work with confidentiality Budget
- To prepare for review the detailed annual budget and revisions in liaison with various internal entities and adhering to COMPANY budget standard format provided by finance department.
- To participate in the presentation and to defend the budget performance as required.
- To control budget availability for each commitment.
- To ensure budget control, highlight current trends and justify variances between Forecast and Budget.
- To establish register, to update, monitor and control the commitments, expenditure incurred and forecast for all contracts and purchase orders managed by Major Projects.
- To perform specific Cost Analysis as required.
- To provide input to the SAP/S4Hana system, regarding commitments, service entry sheets, payment schedule, invoicing, and cost control issues, as required
- To prepare the monthly closure and make sure accruals done in SAP system are in accordance with current project(s) progress and milestones.
- To prepare all necessary documents as necessary for compliance regarding accruals
- To issue a detailed internal and external monthly cost report (Trends, Areas of Concern, Budget Variance analysis, Commitment/Expenditure figures, forecast at completion etc.) with comments and advise Management on cost over-runs in a timely manner
- To ensure correct and auditable records of all matters with Project expenditures, contracts, budgets, cash flows, forecasts, etc.
- To act as the interface with the COMPANY Finance entity and provide them with data for incorporation in corporate financial documents
- To supervise the contractors and suppliers cost control activities
- To implement an efficient invoicing process between the different locations of the project
- To check and monitor invoices, in liaison with COMPANY accounting department to enable timely payment of invoices
- To develop, communicate and implement procedures to ensure the efficient organization and operation of the Project budget and cost control activities
- To advise, during project setup post award, contractors on key commercial requirements (invoicing format and submission, cost reporting etc.)
- To anticipate additional requirements for cost control support during execution of the project(s)
- To promote cost consciousness within the entity
- To ensure confidentiality is being kept as per sensitive data
- To liaise with internal and external auditors for cost justification
- To liaise actively with COMPANY Finance entity for all matters related to cost and accounting as required (Commitments, invoice processing and payment, accruals, payment claims and disputes...)
- To prepare commercial close out of each contract and archive all financial documentation as per COMPANY guidelines
- To carry out any other duties or tasks that may be assigned by hierarchical superiors
- Major Projects involve the development of new offshore platforms, installation of subsea pipelines and debottlenecking of the produced water treatment, all these activities could be executed across several international sites
- Interfaces with other entities of COMPANY especially with Finance for all commercial matters
- The Cost Controller may have to travel to such places especially during initial setup of cost system with Contractor
Essential skills and knowledge
- Degree in Economics or equivalent
- Minimum 10 years' experience in similar activities for Oil & Gas projects.
- Advanced knowledge & experience in use of relevant computer systems (SAP, S4Hana, Power BI, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS-Access)
- EPC Contracts mechanisms
- Fluency in English
What we offer
- Salary:
- Day Rate in USD Plus Allowance
- Work Schedule:
- 8 Hours / 5 Days
- Duration:
- 2 years, renewable
- Location:
- Qatar