Cost Control Manager

Desicon Engineering Limited and its partner Saidel Limited are building a team of professionals aimed at achieving a brand name in the Oil and Gas industry. We are currently looking to engage experienced professionals to join us in the capacity below:

Job Title: Cost Control Manager

Job Code: DEL-CCM-001
Location: Any City, Nigeria

Responsibilities

• Responsible to control and monitor project total expenditure including verifying and checking at invoices and claims from suppliers, vendors and subcontractors to ensure that all project expenditures are captured and properly recorded.
• Provide planning and cost controlling support for all projects which includes variation reporting, monitoring of milestone progress to the preparation of costumer billing processes, etc
• Perform and manage project activity scheduling and monitoring
• Perform technical and commercial review of EPCI long time tenders (subcontractor’s quotations) for the preparation of service agreements
• Ensure effective project implementation and utilize productive reports from the creation of WBS with the use of project management system to monitor the status of all purchases, invoicing and delivery up to the closure of the project.
• Prepare monthly vessel movement report for the monitoring of the vessel activities on a daily basis and register all downtime, consumptions and vessel related issues relating to the project promptly to the project manager and management.
• Coordinate and work with the project management team to resolve project issues to ensure the delivery/completion of the project work.
• Attend project meetings and discussion with the PMT and external clients
• Perform project costing related reporting to the team and management review on a monthly basis to ensure that expenditures are kept within the project budget
• Provide cost control and planning advice to the internal PMT team as and when required.
• undertake any other ad-hoc duties as required.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering with specialisation in Project Management or Cost Control related training.
• Minimum 10 years relevant and similar capacity in project estimating and cost controlling preferably in Offshore Construction/EPCIC industry
• Technically strong in project cost planning, scheduling and reporting.
• Knowledge in the use of MS Project, Primavera Scheduling and SAP software’s Is highly advantageous
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and meticulous
• Possess good project background and technical writing ability and skills,
• Mature, proactive, resourceful and hands’on with good imitative.
• Independent worker who is able to work well with minimal supervision
• Fast worker with ability to work well under stress.
• Estimate your BOM based on actual requirements
• Find opportunities to control cost across production processes
• Assess the capacity of machines and other expenses, in detail
• Analyse costs and trends accurately
• Track work order-wise costs incurred against standards costs
• Track cost over-runs and provide timely advice to functional heads
• understand the corporate and project(s) specific cost procedures and carry out all work in accordance with these
• Study and understand all relevant project documents relating to cost management.
• Work with all relevant project personnel to ensure that cost control procedures arein place
• Assist in setting up project(s) with computerate Cost System upon agreed format,
• Assisting the project manager ‘em identifying and gaining approval of estimates/change requests.
• Reviewing coat commitment and expenditure information for all cost elements, for input to the computerised cost control and reporting system on a consistent basis and ensuring that at information received is accurate and correct input
• Producing regular cost reports and advising management of any forecast cost overruns as soon as possible to allow corrective actions to betaken in a timely manner
• Highlighting cost areas of concern and suggesting areas of improvement
• Maintaining comprehensive accessible registers of financial approvals, variations and change orders,
• Liaising with the finance department with regards to establishing monthly evaluation of work done, goods received and services rendered for invoice preparation and verification,
• Ensure that all cost related work is in compliance with procurement contract(s).
• 10 years’ experience in project cost control and 5 years’experience in EPC orr EPCM projects,
• Strong management, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-directed and highly-motivated,
• Able to work in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment,
• Detail-oriented, dependable and trustworthy,
• Fluent in written and spoken English language.
• High computer literacy and good working knowledge of relevant cost software.
• Engineering or other relevant degree from an accredited institution would be considered an advantage,