Planning & Budget Officer at SPIE Oil & Gas Services

SPIE Oil & Gas Services (part of the SPIE Group) provides a complete range of services to some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies through its network of offices in 25 countries across Africa, the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific.

Our turnover has more than doubled in the last few years thanks to the dedication of our 4,000 employees to whom we give training, recognition, and genuine opportunities for career development. In order to support this growth, SPIE Oil & Gas Services is always seeking talented individuals to join its teams.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Planning & Budget Officer

Job Reference ID: 2026-43997  
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers

Job Description

• SPIE Services Nigeria Limited is currently looking for Planning & Budget Officer to join its work force in Nigeria.

Service Dimensions

• To coordinate the planning, budget process and performance review of all the departments in the Facilities Management & Administration Division thereby ensuring that planned activities are on schedule, performance is within approved budget and ease of cost recovery for the Company.
• Follow up FM&A contracts status to ensure contracts are renewed as and when due, without falling into regularisation.
• Ability to interpret the technical issues into financial figures understandable by all concerned.
• Ability to manage departments budget expectations, especially in budget cuts and arbitrations.
• Tasks are usually deadline driven and could be on short notice to meet both corporate and partners’ requirements.
• Information gathering from various technical personnel cutting across various departments could be daunting.
• Frequent misunderstanding with the technical persons especially in periods of budget cutting.
• KPIs for weekly/monthly reports and work programmes from technical departments are compiled, monitored and analysed for GS division.
• Interface with government agencies and regulatory bodies.
  Interface between vendors with payment issues and finance department.
• Readiness to travel at any time for duties relating to the division.
• Thoroughness in the discharge of duties is very important to eliminate complications on the job and existing work procedures.

Budget and Reporting:

• Responsible for receiving from NUIMS yearly, approved and OML130 Projects.
• Works with Partners & Authorities Relations Division, Finance review yearly financial performance (General Investments Supply Chain Management).
• Prepares Five years budget plan for FM&A Division (Pluri-annual
• Actively supports and works with Sectional Heads/Managers of their budgets.
• Develop, formulate and recommend budget defence strategies FM&A Division.
• Monitor actual expenditure vs. budget, analyse variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Monthly reports of FM&A budget performance in liaison with Responsible on areas to strengthen.
• Track contract costs, service charges, and vendor spend optimization.

Interfacing with Partners and other departments:

• Visits Lagos when necessary to participate in Quarterly Division and NUIMS.
• Drives Duet meetings. Conducts two nos. weekly meetings to Payment (P2P) meeting with CPNC, Finance and FM&A the internal processes before invoicing/payment.
• Assists in preparing slides for CC1 / CC2 presentations contracts in FM&A Division.
• Prepares Weekly/ Monthly report on the progress of key projects to Management in MS Project Application.
• Works with Internal Control and the Decentralized Buyers in FM&A to ensure that all POs and SPRs processed are in line with the DOA.
• Performs over-sight functions on the activities of eJPC creators and ensures that FM&A contractors are paid on time.

Qualifications / Experience Required

• Good University Degree in Finance, Economics or Engineering discipline
• At least 5 years post NYSC working experience.
• Good command of English language.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of computer software like MS Office Suit, Ms Project, Primavera, AutoCAD.

Profile
Planning:

• Coordinate the preparation of annual FM&A budgets (OPEX & CAPEX) aligned with corporate targets and asset requirements.
• Develop medium- and long-term financial plans, forecasts, and cost scenarios.
• Prepares on monthly basis FM&A integrated planning schedule and updates and ensures that project activities are properly captured and posted on time.
• Consolidate inputs from maintenance, real estate, administration, and project teams into a coherent business plan.
• Prepare and follow up FM&A planning via enterprise tool like Primavera, aligning resources, schedules and operations through integrated planning and forecasting processes.
• Prepares weekly KPIs for the department and ensures that activities of the former are properly captured for Divisional meetings.
• Carries out any other duties as may be assigned by hierarchy from time to time.

HSE Objectives:

• Familiarize self with Company emergency procedures, carry out assigned responsibilities safely and report any incident, unsafe act or operation.
• Participate in all HSE committee meetings and all safety drills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online