Project Controls specialist, with 14-year experience managing financial data, budgets and cost control services for numerous multi-million-dollar Control system projects in oil & gas Industry.
Achievements/Tasks:
Managed the financial life cycle of projects ranging in revenue of $100K to $25M at a dedicated engagement with project delivery team. Responsible for contract billing compliance
• Maintains project cost to complete budgets in alignment with as sold position and in coordination with budget holders – ERP (SAP TRP & SAP -PBS)
• Supports forecast estimation and verifies the accuracy of the actual to date cost (material, labor, manufactured costs, suppliers' invoices, timesheets, travel expenses.) SGV – SAP – PMW
• Aligns with project team and time schedule to ensure forecasted cost risks are accurately captured and costs time phased- Conducting monthly project review and record MOM
• Checks and controls cost movements, compares with current scope and progress as well as with previous forecast. Also Compares with productivity factors and validates accuracy of estimates
• Communicates cost status/forecasts/risk to budget holders and drives/supports risk mitigation and cost out
• Presents all financial data in a transparent way, attends project and management review to present cost status, budget deviations and root causes
• Aligns with Finance Director -MENA to ensure reconciliation takes place between approved project financial data and books.
• Aligns with planner to ensure costs and schedule are aligned, providing time phased cost forecasts for sales pacing. Reports on cost movement root causes impacting sales targets.
• Coordinating with delivery and FBP -Support External Audit cycle and Internal Audit – Quarterly / Annual.
• Acting Finance business partner – review and approve new opportunities in line with business COA
• Responsible for contract billing compliance (i.e., Fixed price LSTK Projects, Cost Plus and Time &
• Materials)
• Responsible for monthly financial reporting on entire portfolio, which included estimates at
completion, cost/budget analysis, gross margin analysis, as well as many other ad-hoc reports to
the various project managers and Financials HUBs.
• Prepare and analyze Monthly /quarterly forecasts.
• Reviewed and approved all invoices in line with complex contract terms and conditions.
• Support financial audit (internal /external ) in line with accounting policies
• Prepare cash flow reports in coordination with the cost consultants, and heads of departments for preparing updated, forecasts
• Liaise with tax consultants for timely tax filing, and coordinate with the tax consultants regarding tax strategy, and planning.
• Prepare P&L forecasts for the project as part of the corporate model forecasting of the group Prepare miscellaneous
• reports as requested by management.
• Monthly revenue recognition - SAP-ERP result analysis and settlement
• Order entry Management\ Change Management in SAP (ERP System)
• Monthly revenue recognition - SAP-ERP result analysis and settlement.
• SAP - FI-CO analysis , clearing RA settlements .
• Customer Purchase order verification inline with Co. policy.
• Bank guarantee management-
• Project related . Major Customer A/c (Invoicing /Collection )
• Account payable- Invoice booking and Vendor settlement Account Receivable-Follow up with Customers for outstanding Account payable MIS- Age wise outstanding, Vendor performance statement Various MIS reports ,
• Management reports preparation in MS-excel. Bank re-conciliation.
• Inter Company invoice booking and reconciliation Updating Financial information in Hyperion
• Import data from ERP for Various MIS reports, Management reports.
• Reconciliation of finance reports (GLs and Cost centre) Validate the numbers –
• Inter-company entity balance. Analyze and resolve the problems related to data entry error in accounting. Generate reports in Excel – For MIS reporting.
• Updating the status of projects in ERP based on the requirement through E-mails.
• Preparing estimates of the projects for the Client Service Managers. Preparing weekly project reports to Project mangers and monthly project report to Finance.
• Maintaining the project details using MS-Excel and MS Access. Preparing reports in Pivot tables and MS-Excel Macros.
• Analyzing the financial data of the company. (10 K, Annual Report, 20F etc.)
• Populating Financials under US GAAP, UK GAAP etc. for investment banker, customer template. Populating Equity and Preference shares. Operating metrics of US & European companies
Business Analysis – SGV, Tableau
Business Process Improvement – Veritas – Internal auditor
SAP Project /service Module expert – SAP -PBS & SAP TRP
Forecasting – Excel advanced
Excel / VBA skills
Best performance award for project controlling and cash collection -MENA