Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Control Analyst 

Location: Erbil office

Job Purpose:

To provide comprehensive project controls, cost estimation and management, forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting support for all Drilling, well servicing and Workover activities, ensuring financial discipline, accurate forecasting, and timely decision-making across the wells portfolio.

Responsibilities and Key objectives:

• Prepare inputs to the annual Work Program & Budget (WP&B) and quarterly reforecasts for Drilling and Well Service activities.
• Prepare Drilling & Workover cost estimates.
• Prepare Drilling & Workover AFE's and ensure approval (internal & external) prior to commencement of Drilling & Workover activities.
• Ensure that all approved Drilling & Workover AFE's are uploaded to Procurement and Finance systems in a timely manner.
• Carry out timely and regular (daily, weekly, monthly, annual) cost tracking for ongoing Drilling and Workover activities ensuring quality of the data            
• As required participate in development and implementation of a detailed wells cost tracking tools for all Drilling & Workover activities to ensure accurate and timely well cost data is provided to wells team on a daily / weekly / monthly basis. Include graphic / chart reporting of daily expenditure for 'quick reference' guide.          
• Attend daily rig calls to keep up to date on Drilling & Workover operations and associated expenditure.
• Read and interpret Daily Drilling Reports (DDR's) in order to update cost tracker on a daily basis to provide cumulative spend against AFE.
• Assist in invoice verification for all Drilling & Workover vendor invoices.
• Ensure all Drilling & Workover invoices are coded correctly to the appropriate AFE number & GL A/C Code.
• Liaise with Drilling & Workover vendors to resolve any invoicing disputes.
• Interrogate ledger to review Drilling & Workover 'Actual' costs and re-allocate any incorrectly coded charges on a weekly basis.
• Generate accurate Value of Work Done (VoWD) for all Drilling & Workover related expenditure on a monthly basis and prepare & submit monthly accruals to Finance for posting to ledger.
• Provide Drilling team with detailed cost reporting including ‘Actual’ V’s ‘AFE’, Value of Work Done (VoWD), AFE V’s Estimated Final Cost (EFC), Forecast V’s Budget 
• including variance analysis in order to highlight to Drilling Dept potential overspends against AFE as early as possible.
• Track and report expenditure against Drilling & Workover contracts / service agreements / PO's / SO's, Etc.
• Track, control and report Drilling & Workover inventory expenditure in terms of issues and returns of equipment to and from wells during operations and ensure that tangible well costs accurately reflect what was used in each well.
• Generate full Well Reconciliations for all Drilling & Workover activities, ensuring that all reconciliation are completed to the required industry standards in a timely manner, (ie 90 days following completion of well activity).
• Respond to a wide variety of ah-hoc Drilling & Workover cost queries from internal and external stakeholders and ensure accurate cost data is provided in a timely manner.
• Monitor key cost and schedule performance indicators for wells activities.
• Support development of drilling campaign forecasts and long-range plans.
• Perform trend analysis and identify cost risks and opportunities.
• Participate in lessons learned reviews to improve future cost estimates.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project controls processes and systems.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate cost risks and opportunities impacting well delivery and annual budgets.
• Authority to issue drilling cost reports and accruals

Financial responsibility:

Key contributor to the delivery of budget items.

Education:

Bachelor degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Project Controls, Quantity Surveying, or related discipline.

Job Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

·         Minimum 5-10 years of Wells Cost Control / Cost Engineering experience essential.

·         Familiarity with Drilling & Completions procedures, processes and terminology.

·         Expert user of Microsoft Excel including charts function, Advanced Excel including Power Query, Pivot Tables,         Power Pivot and dashboard reporting.

·         Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle or similar).

·         Experience with project controls and reporting tools.

·         Experience with Power BI or similar visualization platforms preferred.

·         Competent user of other  MS Office applications.

·         Experience of upstream project cost control.

·         Solid forecasting, data analysis and arithmetic skills 

·         Good understanding of stock, inventory control and management      

·         Good understanding of JV accounting         

·         Fluent in English

·         Excellent verbal, written and aural communication skills.      

·         Able to work effectively as part of a team and communicate cross-functionally.

·         Ability to work on own initiative; exercises a proactive approach.       

·         Ability to take responsibility and manage tasks through to completion.           

·         React quickly and be flexible to changing circumstances.      

·         Use initiative to ensure issues are resolved in a timely manner.         

·         Seek ways to find and apply best practices. 

·         Adopt a pragmatic, fit for purpose approach.

·         Demonstrate a strong work ethic and be able to deliver under challenging deadlines

·         Open, honest and reliable.              

Interested candidates should submit their CVs, no later than Tuesday, 6 October, 2026.