About Us
Santos provides reliable, affordable energy for progress and seeks to provide lower carbon energy over time.
Santos is a global energy company with operations across Australia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and the United States.
At Santos, our goal is to be a global leader in the energy evolution to low-carbon fuels that help the world decarbonise and continue to provide the reliable, affordable energy the world needs for modern life and human progress.
Santos is an important Australian domestic gas supplier and LNG supplier in Asia. We are committed to supplying critical fuels such as oil and gas, and abating emissions through carbon capture and storage, energy efficiency projects, use of renewables in our operations and high-quality offsets. Santos will also seek to develop low-carbon fuels as customer demand evolves.
For 70 years, Santos has been working in partnership with local communities, providing jobs and business opportunities, safely developing natural gas resources and from there powering industries and households.
Santos seeks to deliver long-term value to shareholders through our diverse portfolio of high-quality, long-life, low-cost oil and gas assets, carbon storage resources and infrastructure.
The Santos portfolio is value accretive and resilient across a range of decarbonisation scenarios. Santos has a climate transition action plan that will continue to evolve for the global energy evolution.
Santos has a regional operating model with a strong local focus. The Company's operating structure comprises three regional business units focused on enabling and executing corporate strategy. Two divisions – Santos Energy Solutions and Santos Upstream Gas and Liquids – are accountable for global portfolio management and strategy.
About the Role
Our Senior Cost Controller will play a pivotal role within the Eastern Australia Upstream Project Services Team, with the primary objective of delivering effective program and project control measures from fund approval to total investment and closure.
We are looking for an individual with sharp business acumen and a good eye for detail who will be responsible for contributing to the annual and project capital budget processes for assets and projects supported. You will manage developed budgets, ensuring adherence to financial thresholds and targets.
As part of the role, you will directly support program and project delivery, measuring schedule and cost variances relative to baseline; and highlight key insights, risks, and opportunities for action with the project management team.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
Budget Management: monitor and control developed budgets, ensuring adherence to financial thresholds and targets.
Forecast Management: manage 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.
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, Trend and Risk Management: support the named processes ensuring that scope, schedule, and cost are accounted for, and risk is managed appropriately.
Data Management: manage schedule, capital, and execution data in line with approved cost, operating and work breakdown structures to enable direct comparability across the portfolio.
About You
To be successful in the role you will have a demonstrated ability to deliver effective program and project control. You will have directly supported major project delivery, effectively measuring schedule and cost performance and taking appropriate action with a project management team.
With a focus on long term team development and growth, we are looking for an engaging individual to mentor and work with junior members of the team, ensuring they are guided, supported and educated based on best practice.
Essential experience required for this position includes:
7+ years' Project Controls and Project Services experience across major capital programs or projects.
7+ years' experience in the oil and gas or mining (or other major resource) industries.
Direct responsibility for managing budgets of more than A$100m 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 to 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).
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
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 want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our ongoing success.
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.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via the online recruitment system before 11th October 2024.
A requirement of this role is that you will need to have in place the legal work rights for Australia to apply.
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