Project Manager Engineer

Christina Do / CPA

*** * **** ****** . *** York . NY . 10017

646-***-**** . *********.**@****.***

Employment History

FAST - FLUOR & SKM TEAM (Perth, Australia) Nov 2011 - Sep 2013

Senior Cost Controller

. Prepare staffing manning forecast (both hours and costs) through to

project completion on a quarterly basis.

. Review forecast monthly to ensure costs are up-to-date and reflect

current situations.

. Review monthly actuals costs and compare with budget and forecast to

ensure no overrun of cost. Provided justifications to explain key

variances for underrun and overrun of costs.

. Work with the Project Engineer to review all scope changes and trends.

Prepare change orders to the Project Manager for approval and update the

changes in the cost system.

. Review and analyse actual costs monthly. If there are any incorrect

activities prepare journal entries before month end.

. Prepare Value of Work Done (VOWD). This is the value of work that the

Contractors/Vendors have done but have not been invoiced for payments

and accruals must be made before reporting month end.

. Review Contract Variations (CV) and Request for Revision to Contract

Price (RTV) to ensure commitments, approved contract variations to date

and the forecast are aligned with the latest forecast.

. Closeout packages (contracts, service & purchase orders) that have

completed. Prepare closeout documentations to the Project Manager and

Client to finalize costs and closeout in the cost system.

. Prepare closeout status on a weekly basis and reported any debottlenecks

to the Project Manager.

. Prepare cost information (actuals, budget and forecast) for inclusion in

the monthly reports

BECHTEL (London, UK) Oct 2010 - May 2011

Reporting Manager

. Work closely with the external consultants (Deloitte) and the Area

Project Directors to discuss and develop a new monthly reporting

template to be used on the Crossrail Programme project.

. Responsible for the quality and accuracy of the data and information

presented in the Area Monthly Reports. Work closely with the Area

Project Directors to ensure that this is being achieved.

. Liaise with planners, cost engineers and project teams to further

understand the data reported to increase the robustness of analysis and

onward reporting of information.

. Undertake, collate and support the input of data analysis into reports,

so that it is in an easily accessible format and that key messages are

appropriately prioritized.

. Work with other reporting resources in the Programme Controls Function

to develop effective reporting of information that is supported by the

required level of analysis around critical information.

MAERSK (London, UK) Apr 2010 - Sep 2010

Finance Analyst

. Provide financial support and guidance to the Maersk Line IT Project

Manager in the Telecommunications and Network accounts.

. Investigate and analyse actual telecommunications from various cost

centres in over 155 countries and monitor actual expenditures against

budget. Prepare budget variance analysis and present to managements team

on a monthly basis.

. Review monthly actual telecommunications and prepare detailed actual

analysis costs to gain understanding of what these costs are and provide

detailed analysis reporting to management.

. Manage telecommunications cost centrally to create visibility and

present this to management total costs spent year-to-date in over 155

countries.

. Work closely with the local Accounts Managers to develop the annual

budget 2011 and prepare consolidation, analysis and justifications to

managements for budget approval.

FLUOR AUSTRALIA (Perth, Australia) Oct 2007 - Jan 2010

Senior Cost Controller (Apr 2009 - Jan 2010)

. Responsible for the development of EPCM Quarterly Forecast and liaise

with other lead cost engineers to provide accurate and reasonable EPCM

forecast to client.

. Review EPCM invoices and allocate correct coding (WBS), budget and

facility code for payment

. Prepare monthly forecast for EPCM engineering labour services and other

sub-consultant costs including provision for contingency and retention

bonus.

. Track actual weekly labour costs, and analyses data to ensure charges

are within budget, and charges are correctly coded. Make adjustments if

necessary.

. Review area monthly reports and liaise with management for

clarifications and/or queries. Consolidate all monthly reports to

management and client.

Progress & Measurement Technician (Jul 2008 - Mar 2009)

. Review weekly progress file for consistency and reliability and upload

to the progress database.

. Prepare weekly progress reports and issue to management for review.

. Working closely with the Lead Cost Engineer to ensure scope changes are

captured in the progress database and amend the original budget hours

and costs if necessary.

. Participate and prepare weekly walk-through progress audits at the

construction site.

. Prepare weekly progress audits reports to the Contractors for review and

update progress for next weekly progress file.

Cost Controller (Oct 2007 - Jun 2008)

. Manage and control Capital budgets, expenditures and forecast for

Purchase Orders, Service Orders and Construction contracts.

. Monitor costs monthly and prepare Revision to Forecast Final Costs to

seek additional approval prior expenditure incurred.

. Participate in the monthly cost review of contract packages with Site

managements to ensure all costs are up to date and gives us an insight

into what costs will be coming through.

. Review Material Requisition and allocate Work Breakdown Structure,

Facility Code and Budget prior to the Purchase Orders are being raised.

. Develop and prepare reconciliations between Project Controls systems and

SAP and explain variances.

RIO TINTO (Perth, Australia) Jul 2003 - Sep 2007

Project Cost Accountant

. Prepare commitment reports, cash flow requirements, and budget variance

analysis on a monthly basis.

. Prepare monthly accruals and update in SAP to ensure all costs are

captured in the system.

. Review and analyse monthly Project expenditure costs and prepare report

cost status.

. Work closely with the Cost Centre Managers to develop, prepare and

manage annual cost centres budgets and quarterly forecast projections

across all cost centres.

. Ensure proper monitor and report expenditure against planned/budgeted

and prepare variance reporting. Prepare journal of transfer of

expenditure if required.

. On a monthly basis, gather total man-hours spent on the project and pro-

rata overhead/indirect costs and prepare journal to transfer the

overhead/indirect costs to the project.

System Skills

. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) . SAP R/3 Production .

Construction Management System (CMS) . MileMarker (Progress &

Measurement database)

Education

. Association of Certified Practising Accountants - CPA

Australia (2011) . Murdoch University - Bachelor of

Commerce (2003)

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