Cost Controller Job Vacancy At South Atlantic Petroleum Limited
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
South Atlantic Petroleum Limited is an indigenous Oil exploration and Production Company, whose vision is to be the best Indigenous Oil Company, striving to build a better Nigeria. SAPETRO seeks top talent to enable her achieve this vision.
To support maximization of our existing assets and the pursuit of our business expansion agenda, we seek talented, enthusiastic, innovative and multi-tasking individuals to fill the following position:
Job Title: Cost Controller SA016
Relationships: Drilling, Engineering and Facility Managers, Benin Project Team, Project Purchasing Officer, Finance Team.
Location: Lagos State
Cost Centre: SAPETRO Benin.
Responsibilities
- Reports to the Manager, Accounting & Reporting
- As a critical link between E&P and Finance, the position will support field development activities by providing financial and analytical expertise to the Project learn, while delivering timely project financial reports to the Finance Team.
- Oversee project related accounting procedures and database management.
- Carry out random audit of work flow to ensure that all project accounting transactions are appropriately authorized.
- Prepare monthly journal entries.
- The Position of Cost Controller for the Benin Field Development will be embedded In the E&P Project Team for Benin, with day to day interactions with the Drilling arid Engineering Managers. Key to delivering on this position will be the ability to leverage requisite skills design and maintain analytical spreadsheets and reports, from data obtained within internal and external relationships.
- Prepare reports to feed financial statements (variance analysis, etc).
- Prepare general ledger reconciliations.
- Prepare the Accruals Report for the drilling activity and related analytics.
- Participate In monthly closing process.
- Work on special projects, if requested.
- Serve as first line internal control compliance liaison officer.
- rovide support to individual Project Engineer/Project Manager in establishing and maintaining up to date AFE and related documents.
- Submit the Requisitions for the internal approvals.
- Submit the Approved Requisitions to Procurement.
- Assist with yearly audit preparation.
- Check and assign the Materials & Equipment Accounts Codes and Class of Cost.
- Prepare the weekly warehouse report for materials & Equipment.
- Generate and maintain departmental, project and contract based cost reports, as required by the Engineering Manager or individual Project Engineer.
- Monitor and report cost against progress and monitor and report expenditure and commitments against project budget.
- Review and audit contractors cost management procedures
- Audit contractors invokes and backup material.
- Prepare the Requisitions for the project (drilling activity).
Requirements
- Minimum of a 2nd Class Honours University degree in Accounting, Engineering, Social Sciences or other Sciences.
- Good team spirit.
- Approximately 3 to 5 years experience in a similar position, within the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry.
- Must have at least 2 years experience in Auditing, within the Upstream Oil and Gas industry
- Good knowledge of SAP and intermediate spreadsheet expertise are a must.
- Familiarity with IFRS environment would be an advantage.
- Good analytical and problem solving skills.
- Oral and written French would be an advantage.
- Good interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills.
- Good organizational skills.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
- Conversant with the use of Microsoft Office Tools.
Application DEADLINE: 21st May, 2013
Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs (Microsoft Word Format) as an attachment to:
jobopportunities@owel-linkso.com
Email subject titles should read: Cost contoller – SA016
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