Cost Controller Job at West African Ventures Ltd


West African Ventures (WAV) is a 100% Nigerian company and a leading indigenous provider of offshore engineering, procurement, fabrication, installation and vessel charter services.
With corporate headquarters in Lagos, Marine Support Base and shipyard in Warri, Dry-dock and Fabrication facilities in Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone, WAV provides excellent offshore support services to the Nigerian Oil and Gas sector.


Job Title:  Cost Controller

Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
Job description
  • • Responsibility for forecasting, controlling and monitoring project budgets
  • • Prepare cost estimates for offshore construction and installation projects or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of projects or services
  • • Monitoring total expenditure including verifying and checking of invoices and claims from suppliers, vendors and subcontractors to ensure that all project expenditures are captured and properly recorded.
  • • Maintaining cost breakdown structures
  • • Distribute the project charge codes and making sure all the costs are booked to the correct budget
  • • Perform project costing related reporting to the team and management’s review on a monthly basis to ensure that expenditures are kept within the project budget.
  • • Prepare variation reporting for any change in budget with detail explanation and backup
  • • Monitoring of milestone progress to the preparation of customer billing processes
  • • Provide cost control and planning advice to the internal PMT team as and when required.
  • • Work closely with Contract Lead to evaluate the cost impact on any Change Order
  • • Monitor the PMT, engineering, construction labours man-hours compared to bid budget
  • • Understand the execution plan and dial in any deviation from bid basis into the budget and obtain budget approval from project manager and management
  • • Involve in risk assessment and populate the contingency budget

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