Wells Assistant Cost Engineer

Reporting to the Wells Delivery team cost engineers, with the responsibility for the verification and processing of all Wells Delivery team invoices. The successful incumbent will preferably have an accounts payable background and the ability to work as part of a small team.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Verify invoice rates for Wells contract services to Contracts
• Verify invoices to Cost Tracking System
• Liaise with appropriate Wells team members, Vendors and Direct Material Controllers to resolve invoice discrepancies
• Day to day cost tracking;
  • Ensure correct information is being tracked in cost tracking system
  • Continued understanding of daily cost with transparent reporting of these numbers
  • During operations, submit daily cost to offshore to be added to DDR
  • Liaise with Engineers and service providers to ensure accurate tracking of daily expenditure against project
  • Review of time writing for personnel, ensuring approved personnel are time writing correctly and rejecting any unapproved time writing
  • Manage Maximo for cost areas of responsibility, inputting AFE’s and approving Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders
• Preparation of accurate monthly reports;
  • Provide monthly report to relevant JV accountant and/or project team for calculation of monthly accruals
  • Ensure all invoices, commitments and time writing have been recorded
  • Ensure Value of Work Done is re-evaluated based on most current data
  • Interrogate data received from other team members
  • Re-forecast estimate to complete/forecasted final costs and identify any area of concerns such as budget overruns work/delivery slippages etc which may impinge upon other cost areas

Ensure forecast expenditure phasing is aligned to current plan and also reflects data received from other discussions held with project team members

Requirements

Must be able to work using own initiative and as part of a Team

Good oral and written communications

Good PC skills including Excel skills

Good planning and organisational skills

Ability to work accurately and in accordance with established policy and procedures

Understanding of finance processes within a drilling environment

Desirable:

• Purchase Ledger experience preferred
• Basic understanding of drilling and well operations generally

Must be able to work using own initiative and as part of a Team Good oral and written communications Good PC skills including Excel skills Good planning and organisational skills Ability to work accurately and in accordance with established policy and procedures Understanding of finance processes within a drilling environment Desirable: Purchase Ledger experience preferred Basic understanding of drilling and well operations generally