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Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

• Manage a team of 4 individuals located in Houston, Tx.• Manage, monitor, and generate reports in our 3 operating interfaces for Land, Marine and Aviation segments daily thru tableau and excel reports.• Automated a CXL and ORACLE error report for all segments that reduced the teams man hours spent by 3.5 hours• Validated, updated, and approved all information prior to entering the data into the ETRM operating systems• Maintain data management in CXL with the ability to map out the data.• For Governance Risk Compliance Audit review, produce a year-end user’s Access/permissions review report twice a year and preform walkthroughs for Internal and external Audit.• Communicate and document control findings on a timely basis and produce an action plan accordingly.• Participate in rollout testing by working closely with technical and project teams responsible for system upgrade or system integration to ensure all new users responsible are tested and reviewed.• Identify potential problems for users by creating scenarios using Trading experiences.

Houston, Texas Area

• Manage a team of 4 individuals located in Houston, TX.• Established a workflow which triggers the new approver in the process flow and allows approvals from Legal, Compliance, World Ethics, HSSE, Treasury, etc. to automatically flow.• Perform sanction checks and research on entities that have been flagged while maintaining a working knowledge of regulatory policies required to onboard clients including: KYC & Dodd-Frank, while coordinating with EMEA compliance to ensure all regulations have been cleared• Challenge existing policies when they do not align with market standards• Verify required documentation and banking Instructions• Establish data in Oracle financial system and ensure proper workflow.• Complete external requests for Suppliers and Customers

Houston, Texas, United States

• Manage a team of 4 individuals located in Houston, TX. And 2 individuals in London office• Ensure the teams prompt reconciliation of trades contractual terms against Trader Deal recap/Broker recap/Counterparty confirms and validate in the ETRM system.• Monitor sale and purchase contracts are generated and reviewed in a timely manner, while maintain compliance.• Established a daily contract filing and labeling process for all contractual correspondence/emails.• Identify potential problems, present alternatives, and propose solutions.• Communicate efficiently with all relevant internal stakeholders and team members.• Provide timely and accurate information to both external and internal customers.• Develops and integrates contract management tools, templates, methods, and processes. • Maintain compliance with local implementation policies and SOX controls and assist with Audit Requests.• Integrated existing counterparties into the ICE e-confirm platform by assisting in the negotiation of the ISDA/NAESB and Master Agreements while streamlining the data to be uploaded and downloaded from ICE platform. This process assisted with a quick turnaround confirmation to the data negotiated between the 2 parties while reducing the amount of human errors. This has allowed the team to turn around all confirmation by EOBD

Houston, Texas

• Managed and trained a group of 3 Physical Commodities and 6 Financial Contract Analyst IN Houston, TX • Navigated the implementation of the new trading platform and contracts layout as well as create and Manage templates updates for all Refined, Physical and Financial Products• Draft OTC Commodity Financial and Physical Trade Confirmations• Review purchase contracts and negotiating the contract terms with suppliers• Collaborate closely with Sales, Trading and Trade Control to ensure proper trade terms are captured on documents• Identify discrepancies, perform all necessary investigation, and directly negotiate and resolve disputes with Counterparties• Maintain and discuss finding in Daily KPI reports• Work in conjunction with all affected areas of the bank to develop and maintain globally consistent documentation process, Identify, and implement process improvements while ensuring that policy and detailed procedures are current and understood.• Communicate daily with Compliance to ensure no exposure

Houston, Texas Area

• Validate broker confirmations/recaps/ice e-confirm/Counterparty contracts• Operate on ICE as well as upload/negotiate Master Agreements to add entities onto the Ice e-Confirm platform for easier and quicker confirmation• Generate, track, and execute trade confirmations for various types of physical commodity trades capturing all economical information via paper and e-confirm. Vessel, Barges, Truck, Rail, Pipeline, Tank Transfer, etc.• Use judgment and experience in identifying discrepancies, obtaining input on corrective action, and resolving differences.• Review customer contracts and negotiate terms with suppliers while acquiring full execution of documents.• Ensure all confirmation transactions are accurately, effectively and efficiently processed in a controlled, timely and compliant manner.• Track, report and maintain the status of all related confirmations until finalized in the system during and after the negotiation process.• Assist Training New Hires and Audit requests• Assist the Latin American Team with contractual needs.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Create Purchase and Sale contracts from Deal Sheets capturing all economical information. (Domestic Crude, Canadian Crude, Colonial Pipeline, LPG, West Coast Pipeline and Buckeye Pipeline, Emissions, Light Rins, LCFS, Light Ethanol, Light Barge and Marine, Light Financial, Power, ICE/NYMEX, Coal)• Maintain system for updates or changes to contracts by confirming accuracy or trade capture via broker confirms and trade recaps.• Provide support to the Traders/Trader Assistant/Marketing and all groups concerning contracts.• Review customer contracts and negotiate terms with suppliers.• Identify discrepancies, perform all necessary negotiations, and directly negotiate and resolve disputes with counterparty.• Report Daily confirmation metrics• Liaison and Assist legal, Credit, Trading and all involved departments with Contract Negotiations pertaining to GTC, ISDA, NAESB, EEI, Master Agreements, Coal, Emissions, Crude, Confidentiality Agreement, User Agreements, Service and Right of Way, Joint Ventures, etc.• Assist all Spanish speaking offices and counterparties.• Conduct research for litigation and audit requests• Focal contact for Vendor Set-Up and document retention.• Initiate or Direct the internal sourcing team for negotiation process with vendors to determine and define business requirements and verify the final business requirements with the business owner.• Evaluate and quantify risks to inform compliance of potential risk exposure.

Houston, Texas, United States

•Scheduled all deliveries and receipts of drivers and products• Managed 2 Broker Assistants and Supervised 3 office Broker Assistance• Communicated daily work and tasks to assistants which included but not limited to scheduling, billing, and data entry• Organized customer presentations for quarterly performance• Interviewed and trained all new broker assistance and brokers• Maintained a secure record in accordance with the companies established policies and procedures• Managed all Spanish speaking callers and drivers• Billing (A/P and A/R)• Negotiated customer and carrier rates as a broker

Associate'S Degree

High School Diploma