Cost Estimator Career Research and Resources

Pliant (Now Berry Plastics Soft Packaging)

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator -

• Developed cost estimates for printing and converting extruded film in to plastic bags based on materials, labor, and overhead. • Coordinated contractual guidelines and customer specific agreements. • Bench marked new product pricing against existing products. • Maintained and updated price books in AS400 system.

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

R. G. Ray Corporation

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Buffalo Grove, IL

• Provider of pricing, cost, and profitability analysis for $40,000,000 annual revenue of engineered, steel clamps purchased by international tier 1 and tier 2 automotive companies. • Created “Ad-Hoc” market analysis reports using AS400 database and pivot tables. • Implemented quick reference pricing tools for account managers and field sales. • Became Coordinator and Liaison between Engineering and Account Managers. • Kno...

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Pitney Bowes Output Solutions / Mgt Services

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Lincolnshire, IL

• Developed pricing models, quotations, and responses to incoming bids and proposals. • Created analysis tools and spreadsheets to measure account profitability and revenue performance. • Administered contracts and agreements. Defined pricing approval and management intervention guidelines. • Analyzed and reengineered workflows. • Created Powerpoint presentations and Visio documents. • M...

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Moore Business Forms (Now RR Donnelly(

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Chicago, IL

• Product Analyst - Transportation, Retail Grocery and Pharmacy market segments. • Developed financial models supporting new product and Market Based Pricing. • Designed and created “Ad-Hoc” reports from Business Objects database. • Led project teams with R&D, Sales, Production, Engineering, and Purchasing, • Expertise in identifying material and production efficiencies. • Advisor on sensitivity of costs and overheads. • P...

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Talisman Energy USA

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - The Woodlands, TX

Senior Commercial Analyst in charge of leading TEUSA’s long term strategic planning and project economic analyses in the emerging Eagle Ford liquids play. Talisman Energy (a Canadian independent E&P company) spent $2 billion gross in acquiring 160K gross acres in a 50/50 joint venture with Statoil in late 2010. Primary responsibility is to own, lead and implement new planning and economic processes to monetize and optimiz...

Avg. Salary: $127,500   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

BP

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Houston, TX

Finance Lead for the Great White play, a $4.2 billion 8 year joint venture between Shell, Chevron and BP 200 miles offshore in over 8,000 feet of water with first oil in late 2009. Key responsibilities involved Deepwater GoM joint venture economic evaluations, commercial negotiations and partner influence with Shell and Chevron, and to produce monthly performance reports.

Avg. Salary: $127,500   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

BP

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Warrenville, IL

Led the plans, forecasts and financial reports for BP’s $300M annual US legal spend and communicated results to senior legal management in the US and London and to all of BP’s 80 plus US business units.

Avg. Salary: $127,500   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

BP

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Warrenville, IL

Provided project leadership, financial consulting, vendor analyses and procurement process development.

Avg. Salary: $127,500   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

BP and Amoco

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Warrenville, IL

Lead economics and operations consultant for BP’s global Information Technology (IT) group. The position entailed significant global communication and coordination with many BP cross-functional disciplines.

Avg. Salary: $127,500   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Amoco

Accounting & Finance - Cost Estimator - Warrenville, IL

Major responsibility to identify, develop and recommend acquisition candidates in the opto-electronics, biotechnology and solar areas. Analyzed markets, developed economics and conducted due diligence of acquisition candidates. Formulated alliance (JV), exit strategies and developed business plans.

Avg. Salary: $127,500   ·    Company Rank: Not Available