Cost Analyst

NES Fircroft is seeking a Cost Analyst in East Perth, WA, for a 12-month contract with a 5:2 roster. The role involves proactive cost and change management across multiple mining projects, reporting to the Superintendent Project Controls. Responsibilities include budget establishment, cost risk management, compliance with project guidelines, and collaboration with stakeholders. Candidates should have engineering or QS qualifications and at least 5 years of experience in a similar role.
• 5:2 Roster
• 12 Months Contract
• Tier 1 Mining Company

Nes Fircroft is looking for an expereicned Cost Controller who will report to the Superintendent Project Controls and provide proactive cost and change management support to the delivery teams across multiple projects. The Cost Analyst will be expected to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders at a project level and form relationships with those they support.

Key Responsibilities
• The occupational health and safety of yourself and team members, ensuring that systems and processes are undertaken to demonstrate this care.
• Carry out the functional duties necessary for the daily implementation of project cost and change management across regional programs of projects. This will include: establishing budget, change management, contingency management, cost risk management, cashflow forecast schedule estimates, costs analysis to provide guidance on the final forecast cost, review and valuation of progress payments and reporting.
• Assisting the Specialist Cost Analyst and Project Lead/Manager in managing the Owners cost, provide explanation of projects costs deviation from forecast/plan and alignment to the cost management processes.
• Be proactive and bold to raise areas of concern to the Specialist Cost Analyst and Project Lead/Manager to avoid surprises.

Key accountabilities will include:
• Report and provide cost analysis support on assigned delivery portfolio and on individual projects.
• Ensure compliance to the project controls guidelines and procedures by the project owners’ team.
• Manage cost assessments and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost validation, and valuation process.
• Facilitate project review meetings and update cost management tools and systems.
• Assist in maintaining the integrity of integrated project cost reports
• Support development of regular cost and change management reports, including professional analysis and commentary.
• Assist in the development and update of project cashflow forecasting and estimates at completion.
• Supports compliance with standardised processes, systems and tools
• Maintain the relationship with contracting and project planning stakeholders to provide an informed forecast of the project.
• Collaborate with the planners/schedulers, contracts and estimating groups to ensure that implications of changes are well articulated and understood.
• Assist with analysing and reporting implications of changes to the annual plan and forecast.
• Provide technical support to project stakeholders
• Provide an independent assessment of the projects progress and estimate at completion.

Qualifications and skills required:
• Engineering or QS qualifications
• Must have experience of working in a cost role on a large project for at least 5 years
• Must have experience of working on a large mining project and dealing with multiple project at one time.
• Experience with PrismG2 and advanced level skills in a recognised software system
• Good level excel spreadsheet skills to verify & crosscheck data accuracy across systems
• Familiarity with running reports for extraction of information from SAP
• Must be a self-starter to drive and work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in a tight schedule to meet reporting cut offs
• Has to be team player to able to work closely with project members cutting across levels
• 5+ years of experience in project controls delivery.
If you would like to apply for this position, please send your resume to Konrad.poprawa@nesfircroft.com
Please note all candidates must have full Australian Working Rights.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.