Benjamin Orellana Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

London, England, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

Houston, Texas, Us

• Timely and accurate billing and reconciliation of refined product volumes between ConocoPhillips and external partners and/or physical assets.• Independent interactions with Commercial trading, scheduling, and other departments within ConocoPhillips.• Manage the RightAngle to SAP interface from the SAP platform. Performs data drilling activities in SAP to ensure accuracy of data as well as understanding of data flow in the system to be able to provide accurate and sound explanation of source, path and destination of the data in SAP to internal auditing team. • Consistent assistance with SAP testing and control validation (automated and manual controls) throughout the team processes.• Support the back office needs of the Commercial Products Accounting business.• Contract interpretation as deemed necessary to fulfill contractual obligations and requirements.• Understand high value of communication up, down and laterally.• Represents ConocoPhillips with major oil companies in resolution of differences that involve NGL and clean products.• Works on varied and complex processes and problems associate with commercial product business• Involvement in various risk control activities in both Trading and Wholesale Groups.• Make monthly gain/loss adjustments and inform and update manager about these adjustments.• Responsible for servicing both, internal and external auditing inquiries, as well as managing SOX controls in reconciliation and tie-out process.• Special projects as assigned. Ad hoc reporting addressing specific challenges.

London, England, Gb

• System Implementation: Member of team working in the implementation of a Trade book-versus-Financials system software (Spotfire), reconciling Risk Control Profit & Loss reports against the Financial Statements for physical, financial and forward MTM data for Power, Natural gas, Natural Gas Liquids and Tolling/Power books.• Maintain relationships with Trading Analysts, Schedulers, Traders and Accounting to ensure efficient flow of ever changing relevant information. • Report reconciliation differences to Trading and Accounting on a monthly basis and maintain a detailed log of resolved issues, as well as those that are still pending, while continuing to resolve the differences reported.• Required aggregate data from multiple database sources utilizing various query tools to pull data from the Gross Margin for Power and Natural Gas.• Required to analyze data and complex concepts and report results to all levels of the organization.• Consistent testing and support implementation of Spotfire as well as a constant effort to Process Improvements.• Application of software of monthly reports/reconciliations to date back a minimum of three years aiming to report significant improved and accurate financial figures.Accomplishments• Testing and troubleshooting findings with Spotfire application.• Prior Period Adjustment revisions dating back thru January 2010 forecasting over $600,000 of recalculations in favor of Shell Trading.• Cross training in all different products with Shell, Power, Natural Gas, NGL’s and Crude Oil.• Commended by the internal auditing department for providing proactive initiative to meet their needs and requirements.

Houston, Tx, Us

• Serve as external customer lead for all ISO’s, service companies, and 3rd parties. This requires completing weekly / monthly settlements with assigned ISO’s and 3rd parties, researching and resolving all outstanding discrepancies, and maintaining effective working relationships with these counter parties.• Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of calculations and components of ISO charge types. Stay abreast of anticipated and actual changes to charge type calculations as result of market corrections and redesigns.• Responsible for preparing Daily Market Estimates. This includes downloading all available settlement statements and data files, comparing those statements and files to the Estimate File, and researching and correcting variances, for purposes of delivering a Daily Estimate to the appropriate personnel in a timely and accurate manner. Daily process also includes comparison of Nucleus transaction data to nMarket data, and updating Nucleus as necessary for control purposes.• Identify potential dispute opportunities with CAISO and work with other team members to validate. Responsible for filing approved disputes with the ISO, and tracking the progress of filed disputes in a timely and effective manner.• Responsible for compiling and analyzing PMA’s using completed weekly or monthly settlements with the ISO’s and providing detailed explanations for material adjustments. Ensure that general ledger is properly stated. • Identify system issues and enhancement opportunities for nMarket and Nucleus. Work with IT and other members of ISO Operations Group to prioritize, and take lead role in testing those system upgrades and patches prior to moving into Production.• Responsible for mentoring and training other staff as assigned as well as assisting other team members as needed or requested by Manager.• Be a recognized protocol expert for assigned ISO(s) for Calpine Energy Services,

Irving, Texas, Us

• Reconcile Exchange, Fractionation, Pipeline, Storage & Terminal Agreements• Actively involved with resolving discrepancies for agreements and accurately communicate issues between customers and Targa’s Midstream’s Distribution.• Involvement in various risk control activities in both Trading and Wholesale Groups.• Work closely with Risk Group providing traders information they need to figure out daily trading positions, market values and daily positions, Mark-to-Market changes as well as the determination of Pricing.• Send contract confirmations to customers, and match received confirmations to Targa contracts.• Make monthly gain/loss adjustments and inform and update manager about these adjustments.• Meet with Targa’s Midstream’s Distribution on a monthly basis to inform on unreasonable gains/losses at the Terminals, Pipelines or Storages.• Work closely with Distribution to research and resolve old issues.• Special projects as assigned. Ad hoc reporting addressing specific challenges.• Trading and Wholesale Accounts Payables. Responsible for Net-outs, Manual Wires, Checks and regular payments being made to Targa’s customers, responsible of accuracy of payments as well as timelines and cash impact, as well as the overall maintenance and administration of contracts.• Involved in the investigation of measurement product deviations between truck off-loads into terminals and pipeline injections.• Responsible for findings of unresolved differences in Targa’s Storage facilities at Mont Belvieu, TX.• Participated in the overall system upgrade of SolArc’s RightAngle.• Given the creation of SOX compliance requirements, I was heavily involved in the implementation of altering processes to make them all SOX compliant.• Conducted all accounting and some finance work for two Dynegy-Operated Joint Venture Gas Plants.• Created and enhanced relationships with partners (mainly Chevron-Texaco) and various operators of plants.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance

Bachelor In Business, Finance