Michael Markus Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Antofagasta Region - Chile

Main responsibility; Cost and Planning Management.

Chinchilla - Qld

Construction of Lauren Field Central Station and Brownfield upgrade works to Matilda John Field Central Station (Estimated cost of circ. $ 60M.) Main responsibility; Finance, administration, project controls and schedule for the project. • Lead Project Control and Finance Team on site, including the project planner and project administration personnel.• Allocate the budget and track in JDE & P6.• Manage the End of Month process including generation of the monthly JDE Contract Valuation and Risk & Opportunity reviews.• Preparation of the Monthly Progress Claim and expedited payment. • Review Cost / Schedule/ Productivity performance indices and S-Curves and made recommendations. • Ensure the quality of Envision process (Control Software), includes: setting up progress, resources utilization and schedule report.• Provide Head Contract administration support and coordinated with Client and subcontractors on commercial matters.• Responsible for the “Procure to be Paid Process”.• Undertook general housekeeping maintenance and developed workflow reports.• Supervised the Payroll process.• Prepared and maintain the Project Control Management Plan. • Coordinated and prepared the daily, weekly and monthly reports.

Chinchilla - Qld

Construction of 2 Central Process Plant and 6 Field Central Station (Coal Seam Gas)• Lead Project Control Team on site, included Planners, Cost Eng. and admin. personnel• Review of P6 Schedule / Program.• Setting up Progress, resources utilization and Schedule reports under Envision (Control Software). • Review of Cost / Schedule/ Productivity performance indices and S-Curves. • Establishing work breakdown & cost breakdown structures.• Budget allocation and tracking in JDE & P6. Subcontract reconciliations review.• Ensure correct process is adhered to for End of the Month reporting (Including accruals, forecast, Earn Value).• Reconciliation of Man Hours in various systems.• Coordination of Weekly & Monthly reports.

Dalby - Qld

Construction of 1 Central Process Plant and 6 Field Central Station (Coal Seam Gas) • Lead the Cost Control team, included Cost Eng. and admin. personnel• Establishing cost breakdown structure.• Allocation and tracking of budgets in JDE.• Review of requisitions, costs and commitments.• Prepare and review of Productivity factors and S –curves.• Weekly & Monthly reports preparation.• End of the Month Process, included Cost, Forecast and Earn Value revisions and monthly report.• Responsible for establish and update forecasts for End of Month reporting.• Earned Value Management.• Subcontract reconciliations preparation & review.• Support F&A teams in P2P process.

Brisbane, Australia

Cost Engineer – Mechanical and Electrical Fit Out Alliance (Final Cost - $ 700 M) • Planning, implementing, Co-ordinating and Managing the migration of all MEFT subcontract accounts from SAP to JDE.• Simplifying of Cost Code Structures to a meaningful and manageable way.• Improvement to the EOM process by way of using appropriate EOM calendar, use of Actual cost forecast method against commitment cost forecast method and using better quality data entry in the system. • Supporting various MEFT areas to prepare forecasts. Which involved setting up the forecast spread sheet, training area Site accountants, uploading monthly data every EOM and reviewing forecast. • Co-ordinate and assist team members to understand JDE process, EOM activities and forecast.

Brisbane, Australia

Financial Management & Control• Co-ordinate and prepare accurate and appropriate cost information to the Senior Management on a regular basis including monthly forecasts. • Set up and monitoring of meaningful & measurable WBS and Cost Code Structure and regular review of progress to date / to completion against all activities. • Actively manage day to day requisitions, cost allocations, spendings and comparison with the forecast.• Co-ordinate and assist team members to understand scope, budget & forecast.• Close monitoring of the labour resources including hours of work, unit rates, number of workforce and appropriate allocation of such costs. • Established an appropriate cost control system and effectively implemented throughout the project.• Identification and coordination of critical subcontracts/supply agreements, set up in a timely manner. Ensure that the subcontract conditions on the project represent a commercially and financially sound distribution of risk.• Implementation and supervision of procedures for processing subcontractor, supplier and consultant claims and variations.• Gathering information and preparation of monthly progress claims to the Client.• Assist in carrying out audits when required and make recommendations to the Management as to appropriate corrective actions to be implemented.• Assisted, coached and mentored the team members to meet business objectives and actively contributed ideas and experience to enhance results in team activities

Revesby, Sydney

• Preparation of all administrative Project status reports, and preparation of monthly progress claim reports to our client, ensuring fulfilment of contracts in accordance with project management guidelines• Liaison with all Subcontractors (about 25) including; preparation and revision of all subcontractor payments; ensuring fulfilment with each subcontract agreement and ensuring agreements comply with current legislation• Providing project cash flow projections and supporting our commercial manager with contracts variation and providing physical evidence to properly prepare variations.

Caracas, Venezuela

• Coordination and Administrative Control of 12-14 company projects per year, with budgets ranging from $US 0.5 to 20 million• Preparation of administrative Project status reports; including explanation of variance vs. project budgets • Liaison with clients to provide progress reports and ensure fulfilment of contracts in accordance with project management guidelines. • Coordination of tender offer and negotiation with sub-contractors including builders, cranes hire, surveyors, etc• Providing company cash flow projections, collection and data analysis put into excel reports• Ensuring contracts comply with current legislation and that company interests are protected through regular consulting with the consulting lawyer• Preparation of reports and presentations to the board of directors (Projects status & Cost Flow projections)• Coordination of insurance and bond issues for the Contracts/Projects

Master Of Business Administration, Major In Finance

International Exchange Master Business Administration Program at John M. Olin School of Business Washington University - St. Louis, MO. USA

Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering