CAROLINE GODWIN MUSHI

70 Chole Road, Masaki, Dar es salaam | M: 0767 100 881 | carolinegodwin87@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE:
Results-oriented Project Controls Specialist with extensive international experience seeking a challenging role in cost engineering, cost control,
and Project Controls management. Proven track record in delivering effective project controls, including key roles in a multi -billion-dollar mega-
project for BG Group. Currently serving as a cost controller for the Main Logistics Scope contract at EACOP. Skilled in project contr ols
disciplines such as estimating, risk analysis, document control, and cost engineering. Strong analytical skills, adept at meeting deadlines, and
identifying cost-saving opportunities through meticulous planning and analysis. Effective communicator experienced in leading multicultural
teams.

COMPANY HISTORY

East African Crude Oil Pipeline: Logistics Cost Controller: July 2022 - Present
ORYX Oil Company: Demand Manager and Operations Controller: Downstream, Lubricants: Dec 2012 – June 2022
SBS Limited: Commercial cost Controller: EACOP pipeline, Mozambique FLNG & Power Production through Waste to Energy: June 2018 – June 2019

BG Group: Upstream Project Cost Engineer: Upstream LNG Project Tanzania/UK:2015 to September 2016
BG Group: Drilling Cost Engineer: Well Engineering Tanzania: 2012 to 2015

Noble Group: Treasury Analyst: Stamford, CT, USA: 2011 to 2012

EXPERIENCE:

PRESENT

East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Ltd, Logistics Cost Control, July 2022 - Present

Duties:
✓ Produce comprehensive cost reports, conducting variance analysis to provide insightful information to Budget Owners.
✓ Coordinate Cost Control activities for the Annual Budget and Rolling Forecasts, collaborating closely with Financial Planning
✓ Review expenditure forecasts, verified allocations, and identified cost optimization opportunities.
✓ Consolidate cost sections of budget presentations for Management and Shareholders, following provided guidelines.
✓ Successfully participate in month-end closure activities, ensuring compliance with defined deadlines.
✓ Ensure accurate financial reporting, cost optimization, while maintaining compliance with policies and procedures

PAST
Oryx Specialties Services Ltd, Demand Manager and Operations Controller, Tanzania. 2years

Duties:
✓ Capture demand for systematic and tactical planning on a regular basis.
✓ Assess supply plan against demand, considering stock positions and logistics coordination.
✓ Analyze critical aspects of production planning and monitor raw material consumption trends.
✓ Lead customer satisfaction surveys and facilitate S&OP discussions.
✓ Oversee logistics coordination and supervise accounting activities.
✓ Ensure accurate materials movements and production accounting processes.
✓ Responsible for OPEX and CAPEX annual budget reviews
✓ Summarize Sales & Operations Planning performance KPIs monthly to engage Affiliates and review with Global Lubricants Manager and his
core team.
✓ Conduct and lead customer satisfaction survey for business.
✓ Facilitator of S&OP discussion with the commercial team
✓ Build and present the KPI Dashboard for LOBP and that help driving Operations Excellence at LOBP
✓ Overview and supervise Logistics Coordinator & his/her activities alignment.
✓ Overview and supervise CPA and Accountant trainee.

Achievements:
✓ Orchestrated demand planning and supply chain operations, reducing lead times by 20% through process streamlining.
✓ Led cross-functional teams in production planning and inventory management, resulting in a 15% improvement in resource allocation
efficiency.

✓ Implemented customer satisfaction initiatives, resulting in enhanced client relationships and increased business opportunities.

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CAROLINE GODWIN MUSHI
70 Chole Road, Masaki, Dar es salaam | M: 0767 100 881 | carolinegodwin87@gmail.com

SBS: Supply Base Solutions Ltd, Commercial Cost Controller, Tanzania. 9 months.
SBS is an offshore waste management company that helps industries to manage, optimize & make the most of their waste resources. The
company provides an array of solution related to waste, integrated logistics & environmental services, with a key focus on waste recovery
promoting the transition toward a more efficient circular approach. SBS has played a key role in providing solutions to waste resources and
logistics services to the Oil and Gas community in Tanzania, with a clientele of the likes of Shell, BG -Group & Equinor.

Duties:
✓ Create and execute accurate project budget estimates for waste management and logistics.
✓ Develop detailed budgets based on project needs and deliverables requirements.
✓ Define and deliver financials for each project tender submission.
✓ Provide estimations for OPEX and CAPEX costs for waste-to-energy projects.
✓ Monitor and improve cost control procedures.
✓ Identify key cost drivers and communicate potential cost savings to management.

Achievements:
✓ Identified key cost drivers of a $ 9mil project estimate and communicated to management on how to achieve potential cost savi ngs.
✓ Source new business opportunities through networking via conferences, workshops and identifying potential leads.

BG Group: BG Tanzania LNG Project-Upstream, Cost & Planning Engineer, Tanzania. 1years
3months.
BG Group Plc was a British multinational Oil and Gas company with operations in circa 25 countries across Africa, Asia, Australia,
Europe, North America & South America. On February 15th, 2016, BG Group plc ceased to exist as it was acquired by Royal Dutch Shell.
After working for three years with BG as a drilling cost engineer, the drilling campaign program came to an end in 2014 and as a result I
sort out for the next best opportunity within the asset. This led to a transition to the upstream project Cost Engineer role where I was
providing financial analysis, accounting, and management services for Block 1&4 Pre-feed upstream activities.

Duties:
✓ Ensured accurate cost tracking & cost control by issuing a monthly Upstream VOWD (value of work done) report.
✓ Reviewed contracts, budgets, spending reports & logistics data to develop a comprehensive overview of project expenses.
✓ Created annual budgets by acquiring input from scope of works issued by engineers (demand managers), contractors and contract s.
✓ and procurement
✓ Issued a project progress Upstream monthly report to JV (Joint Venture) partners & the GOT (TPDC)
✓ Reconciled project estimates with actuals derived from the SAP accounting software.
✓ Ensured correct coding of all requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, invoices, estimates, and ensuring these are updated and
✓ maintained in the Cost Database
Achievements:
✓ Additional to the above duties, I conducted an audit on the Tanzanian Asset Project Management & Project Controls Standards i n
✓ Comparative to the Group Project Management function. The audit was to ensure that both the Upstream & LNG Tanzania projects
are following what the Group Project Management function has set forth as industry best practice.
✓ An action plan with recommendations & findings for the audit was formulated, presented to senior management & actions were
tracked to close out.
✓ Gained significant experience in working with internationally based contractors as well as was able to work in a team environ ment of
mixed experience, mixed nationality contractors and cost engineers.
✓ Extensive work experience with cost control tools such as WBS (work breakdown structure), SAP (Ledger), Project management,
✓ Change (MOC) register & the Risk Register

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 CAROLINE GODWIN MUSHI
70 Chole Road, Masaki, Dar es salaam | M: 0767 100 881 | carolinegodwin87@gmail.com

BG Group: BG Tanzania offshore exploration Project, Drilling Cost Engineer, Tanzania. 3 years
I joined BG Tanzania without prior experience in Oil and Gas as a drilling cost engineer essentially providing financial anal ysis, accounting
& management support for one of the single largest investments made by a multinational company in Tanzania. I mana ged a portfolio io of
$2 billion worth of Well and project estimates.

Duties:
✓ Ensured accurate daily cost tracking of $100m individual offshore deep-water exploration well AFEs (Authorization for
Expenditure/budget)
✓ Prepared weekly and monthly cost reports for JV partners and internal finance management team
✓ Created & tracked estimates for LLIs (Long lead items) & CTRs (Cost Time Resource) for the entirety of the three years drilling
campaign
✓ Prepared, reviewed & issued a monthly VOWD (Value of Work done) report to other key stakeholders as a cost control measure
✓ Controlled and monitored project total expenditure including verifying, checking, and assigning appropriate WBS codes and claims from
sup- pliers, contractors & subcontractors to ensure that all project expenditures were captured and properly allocated
✓ Coordinated with Contracts and Procurement and contract Demand Managers on the creation and the issuance of additional contract
value requests for all Well Engineering contracts for future drilling campaigns and operations to the Contract Tender Board f or approvals
✓ Developed capital costs (CAPEX) and operating costs (OPEX) estimates for onshore logistics and supply base services supportin g
offshore operations, including a multiuser shared facility port operation contractual agreement (MUFA) supporting four separate partner
operations (Equinor, Exxon Mobil, Ophir, Pavilion & Dominion)
✓ Supported internal and external audits, conducted by Blocks 1 & 4 JV partners as well as MUFA partners (Statoil, Petrobras, BG
Tanzania, Ophir, Dominion & Pavilion)
✓ Ensured the correct coding of all requisitions, purchase orders, contracts, invoices, estimates, and ensuring these are updat ed and
maintained in the Cost Database ✓ Reconciled well costs at the end of the drilling campaign

Achievements:
✓ Provided accounting, cost tracking, budgeting, and financial analysis support for nine (9) exploration wells, five (5) apprai sal wells and
five (5) successful well tests. The total estimated final costs (EFC) for all 19 wells in comparison to total actual costs and approved total
well AFEs/budgets were all under the approved 5% company contingency.
✓ Designed and implemented key performance indicators (KPI) for Well Engineering finance operations by setting up a data analys is
monitoring scheme. This prompted the issuing of monthly purchases to pay reports to key stakeholders in contracts and procurement and
finance departments. The report helped to identify potential areas of delay allowing each respective stakeholder to act in or der to improve
the process. Progress reports were presented on a bi-monthly basis to senior management. As a result of this initiative payment to vendors
within agreed upon payment terms was improved and consequently the likelihood of a default of service during ng operations by
contractors was eliminated.
✓ Gained substantial experience in offshore deep-water drilling operations as well as construction related cost engineering on Oil & Gas
facilities
✓ HSE: demonstrated HSE leadership by partaking in quarterly HSE audits with a senior member of the leadership team

Noble Group: Noble Americas, Treasury Analyst, Stamford, CT, USA. 1 year

My first job upon graduating with an Honors in Bachelor of Arts in Finance and Mathematics was with an international trading commodities
company as a treasury analyst.

Duties:

✓ Coordinate cash management and funding requirements of over one billion USD.
✓ Reconcile accounts payable and perform daily bank reconciliations.
✓ Generate accurate cash flow forecasts and liquidity reports.
✓ Monitor bank balances and ensure correct coding of transactions.
✓ Utilize trading and credit management systems for analysis and reporting.

Achievements:
✓ Daily delivery of timely accurate cashflow forecast report
✓ Well versed in SUN System as well as trading and credit management systems (PETROMAN, ITAS & CM
✓ Settled margins by wire or ACH transactions via HSBC online banking with a high level of accuracy

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 CAROLINE GODWIN MUSHI
70 Chole Road, Masaki, Dar es salaam | M: 0767 100 881 | carolinegodwin87@gmail.com

. QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor of Arts in Finance & Mathematics with a concentration in Accounting, Honors May 2011, (Full scholarship recipient at
Manhattanville College, Westchester - Purchase, NY, 2008 to 2011) GPA 3.6/4.0.
• Cost Control Training - Cost Engineering Consultancy, The Netherlands 2015.
• Cost Engineering Intensive Training - Cost Engineering Consultancy, The Netherlands 2015.
• International Course in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production Accounting level 1 & 2 - MDT International, Dar Es Salaam 2014.
• Demand Manager training, - Ashridge Business School, Dar Es Salaam 2014.
• Emergency First Aid training – St John Ambulance, TVP – Reading, UK 2016
• BOSIET Certified - Basic Offshore Safety Induction & Emergency Training – United Arab Emirates 2013
• Business Discovery Training – Schlumberger Training Unit, Dar Es Salaam 2016
• Basic Drilling Technology - Petroskills, Houston Texas (2013)

PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

SAP ECC & SRM, Sun Micro systems, QuickBooks Pro, Primavera, B4B, CMS (Credit management software), Raiser’s Edge, vision excel, out-
look & access, Microsoft VBA macros, Pivot tables, V-look ups, charts, functions, data mining methodologies such as regression analysis &
solver, Power BI, Power Query & Power pivot.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Member of TEC – Tanzania Exploration Club

Former board-member of the ECPN (Early Career Professionals Network) Member

Board member of Toastmasters International, Harrison, NY

Member of Ascend Chapter, NY (Finance forum/group sponsored by Deloitte)

Member of YPIC – A Young Professionals for International Cooperation UNA chapter initiative

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