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Katy, Tx, Us

Katy, Tx

Houston, Texas Area

• Financial controller for 19 projects using percentage of completion method of accounting. Total value of projects over $600 million. Cost planning, progress billings, forecasting, statistical analysis, contract analysis, cash flow, & cost review used to improve business processes and increase the bottom line. Partner with auditors to address questions.• Consistently achieve monthly & quarterly deadlines and goals.• Automated the monthly review of costs and SOX process, resulting in time savings of 50 hours per month.• Worked in setting up a repairs at site process which helped save millions of project costs, reduced the cost of repair parts in inventory, and also generated additional revenue of over a million dollars.• Senior team member helping to lead and mentor the financial analyst team. Provided training to operations & team personnel to expand knowledge base and save money by performing training internally. Created & distributed training manuals for other staff to utilize.• Used SAP FICO for pulling of actuals, POC, cost center management, and detailed cost reviews.• Found additional revenue on several projects where the contracts had not been previously administered correctly.

Houston, Texas Area

• Budget planning & tracking of operational and capital expenses related to 30+ million dollar budget. Systems enhancements for department & state related reporting.• Transportation payroll management including system design changes and improvements as well as payroll approval.• Cost accounting including the purchasing review & approval for all transportation department purchases and acquisitions. Responsible for keeping a tight control of costs to stay within budget.• Performed grant development for the awarding of funding for clean school busses which helped provide millions of dollars towards the purchase of newer school buses resulting in fewer emissions.• Inventory & purchasing control over all IT equipment used within the transportation department.

Houston, Texas Area

• Assist with SEC annual reporting including cash flow, balance sheets, income statements, financial analysis, etc.• Responsible for FAS 69 calculation and reporting.• Assisted with the review of corporate tax returns and found a major error that required correction to the tax return.

Houston, Texas Area

• Provide management & project managers with financial analysis & other reports of ongoing SAP projects.• Maintain SAP cost structure for support organization. Responsible for all journal entries, account analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis, forecasting, review of all expenses, review of contractor invoices, and responsible for the supervision of six administrative assistants.• Assist in annual budget process, forecasting of expenses, and in working to help keep projects in line with budgets and estimates. Project value was $155 million.

Houston, Tx

• Provide user support and training for all departments and divisions using A/P Imaging, Doc Manager, Laser Vault, and other 3rd party applications. Laser Vault document storage application resulted in 15% time savings for end users.• Work as an interface between end users and programmers on the development and modification of new software applications or systems enhancements. Business consultant for programmer consultation on system enhancements.• IT purchasing agent. Involved in purchasing of all IT related products including both software and hardware for entire company.

Houston, Texas Area

• Responsible for creating new ways for information to be pulled together in a manner beneficial in analyzing the operations of the company. Development of a system to produce automated payout statements. Also developed financial statements by DD&A reservoir allowing for better decisions by management.• Supervised a staff of two accountants. External audit coordination. Reconciliation of cash advances Denver division.• Involved in large property exchanges with other companies involving both producing and non-producing properties. Including gain and loss calculations for properties sold.• Verification of proper approvals and ownership on AFE’s prior to activation.• Responsible for cost review, journal entries, and account reconciliations.

Houston, Texas Area

• Prepared and analyzed the financial results of the company. Prepared monthly reports for upper management use.• Worked hand in hand with Arthur Anderson on audits of financials and results of operations. Responsible for answering audit questions and working with outside auditors to make the financial reporting process as smooth as possible. In some cases this involved using templates provided by Anderson to make it easier for them to audit the results.• Worked in pulling together budget information from Division locations and consolidating it into one file for presentation to management. Responsible for analysis of balance sheet and preparation of cash flow statements.• Variance analysis of actual amounts as compared to budget and forecast. Worked with revenue and operations accounting to provide answers to management.• Responsible for all financial statements and other data used in SEC 10Q and 10K reports to shareholders. Responsible for analysis of changes in reserves at year-end including FAS 69 calculations.

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

• Responsible for corporate tax information, use tax returns, windfall profit tax reports, ad valorem taxes, and production taxes.• Supervised a staff of three individuals.

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

• Hired from the IRS to help in the implementation of the Windfall Profit Tax. This included working with IT programmers in the design of the system.• Project manager on IT related projects such as Windfall Profit Tax 1,000-barrel limitations, and percentage depletion calculations. This resulted in improved cash flow by taking advantage of independent producer status on a monthly basis. This also eliminated the need for refund requests.