ACCOUNTABILITIES
Purpose of the role:
To facilitate and optimize the procurement planning and budgeting cycles for IS, ensuring that we spend against plan optimizing the use of expenditure.
The job holder is accountable for the following items:
- Procurement planning and maintenance of the Master Procurement Plan
- Centrally manage all IS procurement
- Reporting on contract/PO consumption
- Analysis of IS procurement activities to improve performance
- Assist towards analysis of Financials to improve performance
- Assist towards Financial reporting
- Assisting on Tawfeer identification of initiatives and tracking
- Promoting visibility though innovative tooling (dashboards, reports, eservices, automation e.g. RPA)
JOB DIMENSIONS
- No. procurements per year 600
- Analyzing an IS department budget ~$90M
- No. contracts across IS 70
- Daily engagement with key stakeholders, (IS Leadership)
- Primary focal point with Contracting and Procurement and Finance
ACTIVITIES
- Work with IS leadership to develop budgets for each team
- Assist in developing the overarching budget for NOC IS
- Track the actuals of NOC IS financials on a monthly basis
- Identify the deviation between planned and actual budgets
- Work with IS leadership to reduce deviation of actual and planned budgets and ensure correct spending takes place
- Develop relevant reports and updates for the IS leadership team
- Work with relevant IS teams to identify their procurement needs
- Execute the relevant procurement needs for IS
- Follow up with relevant teams within IS to ensure procurement of IS moves smoothly
- Work with C&P to ensure necessary processes are being followed
CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT
- North Oil Company (NOC) Information Solutions (IS) supports various office places as well as onshore and offshore installations
- Al Shaheen Oil Field (ALS) involves complex control systems requiring high availability and reliability for business continuity
- North Oil Company (NOC) is young company operating a giant brown field which requires Information Solutions (IS) as well as the other support functions to quickly develop the required maturity.
- North Oil Company (NOC) is on an ambitious journey to digitize and automize across all business operations. For this, IS will play a crucial role in both new product development as well as operating and maintaining the existing systems.
- Al Shaheen is a very complex Oil Field which will heavily rely on digital transformation in order to be sustainable and maintain efficiency throughout the operating lifetime of the Oil Field.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
IS competencies
- Understanding of IT planning and budgeting
- Understanding of IT procurement
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant discipline. Master’s Degree would be advantageous.
- International Experience Required
- Professional experience: 5 years working on IT procurement related topics
- Personal Abilities: Problem Solving and Planning / organizing / coordinating / controlling
- All around knowledge and understanding of the O&G industry and of the business requirements