Ian Bell Email & Phone Number

Rapid City, SD, US

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, Washington

Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

-Leading the financial integration of former SourceGas Arkansas into Black Hills Energy-Prepare and present executive summaries, operations reviews, and financial analysis to senior leadership-Complete financial planning processes for Arkansas Gas-Complete five-year plan financial modeling analysis to identify opportunities through discounted cash.

Rapid City, South Dakota Area

• Developed key performance metrics for corporate growth and strategic planning initiatives
• Prepared and presented executive summaries and operation reviews to senior management
• Assisted operational business leaders with short/long term capex/O&M budgeting and forecasting
• Modeled potential natural gas, electric, and oil/gas M&A
• Conducted ad-hoc analyses to support operational decision making
• Project leader for creation of a payroll essbase cube.

Rapid City, South Dakota Area

• Communicated modeling and variance analysis pertaining to residential solar initiatives, distributed generation, allocations, ROE, facilities planning, depreciation, electric and natural gas margin/op income/net income
• Project leader for CIS and Payroll Essbase cube creation -Reduced month end revenue process from 1 full day (3 people) to 2 min via essbase/macro combination -Automated all electric load forecasting models, executive.
• Project leader for CIS and Payroll Essbase cube creation -Reduced month end revenue process from 1 full day (3 people) to 2 min via essbase/macro combination -Automated all electric load forecasting models, executive.

• Built and maintained models to enhance uncollectible account provisioning, analyses, and predictability utilizing trigonometry for seasonality; later adopted by accounting department