Mselect
7 days ago
Senior Project Control Analyst
- Salary
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Erbil
- Deadline
- Oct 23, 2026
Mselect is hiring a Senior Project Control Analyst for an international oil and gas operator in Erbil to oversee project controls, budgeting, and cost management for drilling and well services. Candidates require 5 to 10 years of experience in wells cost control or cost engineering and fluency in English and Kurdish.
About the job
mselect is looking to hire a Senior Project Control Analyst for an international oil and gas operator in Erbil, Iraq.
To provide comprehensive project controls, cost estimation and management, forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting support for drilling, well servicing, and workover activities, ensuring financial discipline, accurate forecasting, and timely decision-making across the wells portfolio.
Responsibilities
- 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 AFEs and ensure approval (internal & external) before commencement of Drilling & Workover activities
- Ensure that all approved Drilling & Workover AFEs are uploaded to Procurement and Finance systems promptly
- 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 the development and implementation of detailed well cost tracking tools for all Drilling & Workover activities to ensure accurate and timely well cost data is provided to the wells team on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Include graphic/chart reporting of daily expenditure for a '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 (DDRs) to update the cost tracker daily 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 the ledger to review Drilling & Workover 'Actual' costs and reallocate any incorrectly coded charges every week
- Generate accurate Value of Work Done (VoWD) for all Drilling & workover-related expenditure monthly and prepare & submit monthly accruals to Finance for posting to ledger
- Provide the drilling team with detailed cost reporting, including ‘Actual’ V’s ‘AFE’, Value of Work Done (VoWD), AFE V’s Estimated Final Cost (EFC), and Forecast V’s Budget, including variance analysis to highlight to the Drilling Dept potential overspending against AFE as early as possible
- Track and report expenditure against Drilling & Workover contracts/service agreements/POs/SOs, etc
- Track, control and report Drilling & Workover inventory expenditure in terms of issues and returns of equipment to and from wells during operations and ensuring that tangible well costs accurately reflect what was used in each well
- Generate full Well Reconciliations for all Drilling & Workover activities, ensuring that all reconciliations are completed to the required industry standards promptly (i.e., 90 days following completion of well activity)
- Respond to a wide variety of ad hoc Drilling & Workover cost queries from internal and external stakeholders and ensure accurate cost data is provided promptly
- Monitor key cost and schedule performance indicators for well 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 control 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
- Demonstrate 100% commitment to HSE policy
- Financial responsibility: Key contributor to the delivery of budget items
Requirements
- Candidates must have 5–10 years of experience in Wells Cost Control or Cost Engineering.
- Fluency in English and Kurdish is a must.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Project Controls, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline
- 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 chart functions; 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 visualisation platforms preferred
- Competent user of other MS Office applications
- Experience with 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 one's 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 promptly
- 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
Skills
- Cost estimation
- Cost control
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Excel
- Power Query
- Power Pivot
- ERP
- SAP
- Oracle
- Data analysis
- Inventory management
Details
- Profession
- Cost Engineer
- Category
- Engineering
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience
- Senior · 5+ years
- Languages
- English · Kurdish (Sorani)
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