Engineer, Business Planning

Role Overview

Engineer, Business Planning at ADNOC. Location not specified in source.

Role Purpose

Coordinate the development of Business Unit five-year business plans, budgets, and expenditure monitoring. Establish processes for performance indicator tracking and drive process improvement initiatives. Actively participate in strategic direction of Umm Lulu, SARB, Satah, and Umm Al Dalkh Business Units (USSU), identify optimization and integration opportunities, and support management through development of business reports, presentations, and KPI monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Business Development

• Coordinate development of BU division five-year business plans and budgets.
• Actively participate in strategic direction development for USSU divisions.
• Contribute actively to the company five-year business plan by collecting and compiling feedback from relevant stakeholders.
• Analyse technical and financial data in USSU business plan to ensure schemes and long-term plans are included as planned and reflect proper phasing.
• Conduct analysis to align operating cost and business plan capital schemes budget with finance forecast budget.

Performance Management & Monitoring

• Develop, monitor and update KPIs, Strategic Milestones, Business Risk, Budget and Long-term planning.
• Coordinate, monitor and control development of performance scorecards ensuring close tracking of KPIs and Milestones.
• Report any potential deviation that might impact achievement of KPIs and Milestones.
• Conduct monthly tracking and quarterly performance reviews for USSU BU.
• Prepare monthly reporting to Corporate Performance Team for KPI status and score.
• Ensure updating of Corporate Performance Dashboards when required.
• Organize quarterly internal KPI validation with all Assets.
• Facilitate unification and clarifications on guidelines, calculation and reporting on KPI among Assets.
• Coordinate with all stakeholders for any delays or low compliance for justification, recovery plan or deferment to avoid or minimize impact on Level-1 KPI.

Reporting & Compliance

• Follow and report progress and achievements on monthly and quarterly basis by generating report updates.
• Supervise, coordinate and publish monthly business reports to relevant recipients and highlight potential areas of concerns.
• Generate management reports for risk register, shareholders audit and HSE reports.
• Track and monitor progression, implementation and closure of all relevant actions assigned to divisions emerged from Concession Holders meetings, workshops, audits, incident investigations, lesson learned sessions, HSE and business site visits.
• Issue necessary frequent constant and adhoc reports to relevant recipients and stakeholders.
• Follow up closure of audit actions as per ADNOC guidelines with all stakeholders (Assets, Corporate Assurance Division and Internal Audit) for further monitoring and reporting.
• Coordinate inputs to prepare and issue USSU divisions' performance contract review reports.

Budget & Financial Management

• Develop, monitor and track asset and concession corporate targets and plans for business risk management, business planning and budget control.
• Supervise budget preparation exercise for CAPEX and OPEX including normal operating budget.
• Monitor progress of schemes and develop periodic cost control reports of budget performance highlighting areas of variance and recommending remedial actions.
• Liaise regularly with Finance Division for clarification regarding financial cost expenses and communicate same to respective teams.
• Generate monthly budget performance reports.
• Ensure AFE (Authorizations for Expenditure) generation for unbudgeted elements are coordinated with Finance Division.
• Ensure that payment of invoices is done in timely manner without any delay by relevant Contract Admins within USSU.
• Provide input for preparation of section and department budgets and assist in implementation of approved budget and work plans.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

Risk Management

• Develop and monitor L2 and L3 performance scorecards.
• Conduct regular meetings and workshops with focal points and stakeholders to coordinate review and update the risk register and mitigation actions.
• Coordinate with corporate BRM for tracking and monitoring of business risks and ensure closure on time.

Business Continuity

• Designated as focal point for BCP (Business Continuity Plan) to coordinate and provide details to the consultant in terms of their requirements.

Process Improvement & Optimization

• Establish processes and procedures for monitoring performance indicators and milestones.
• Drive process improvement initiatives.
• Assist in collection, review and analysis of various services with view to identifying opportunities for optimization and integration.
• Work towards integration of certain approaches and processes for better synergy and optimization.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices while taking into account international leading practices in the oil and gas spectrum.
• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with ISO standards.
• Conduct lesson learned sessions upon completion of major inspections and incident investigations.

Support & Presentation

• Ensure full support is provided for development, support and monitoring of policies, procedures and strategies in line with rules, regulations and Concession Holders' directives.
• Provide relevant support to relevant teams to achieve better results.
• Prepare and format all presentation requirements for USSU business needs.
• Advise the Business Planning Team Leader and Manager Operations Planning & Support and relevant internal and external stakeholders on all abnormal and critical situations and provide necessary recommendation and support to mitigate such situations.

Benchmarking & Measurement

• Benchmark and measure BU support and performance.
• Assist in development and monitoring of Concession Holders data for various committees.

Supervision & Development

• Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver respective section objectives.

Compliance & Standards

• Implement approved section and department policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of section and department work programs in line with company and international standards.
• Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures and controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices.
• Contribute to achievement of approved performance objectives for section and department in line with company performance framework.
• Provide inputs to prepare section MIS and progress reports for company management.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Business Administration discipline or equivalent.
• Five to six years of experience in upstream oil and gas industry including five years in planning discipline.
• Broad knowledge of best practices applied in business performance management including company mission, vision and values; strategic planning, performance drivers and KPIs; business process redesign and RACI charts; audit and business risk management.
• Very good computer knowledge and hands-on experience in MS Project, Primavera or any related modern computerized planning package.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of upstream business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt, maintain focus and high degree of accuracy while working with complex data.
• Proficient in English.

Skills & Competencies

• Technical competencies as per ADNOC standard competencies.
• Behavioral competencies as per ADNOC standard competencies.

Additional Information

Work Environment

• Sitting 80%
• Walking and standing 20%
• Air-conditioned environment 80%
• Outdoor 20%

Working Relationships

Internal: Daily, weekly, monthly reporting and coordination with Business Planning Team Leader about ongoing activities; frequent contacts with USSU divisions VPs, line managers, team leaders and focal points to discuss plans and ensure prompt follow up; regular coordination with USSU head office teams and UL/SARB/Satah/UA fields to consolidate financial, technical information, KPI status, documentation and monthly report updates.

External: Concession Holders, contractors and service providers, ADNOC Group Companies.