Karla Benge Email & Phone Number

Vinita, Ok, Us

Ketchum, Oklahoma

Full-time consultant with Savvy as a Professional Accountant with significant experience in the energy industry. Have a strong knowledge and technical skills in regulatory compliance, oil and gas revenue, and plant accounting. Have been responsible for contract review with determinations of appropriate accounting treatment. Also have highly effective communication and mentoring skills that enable maximum benefits to be achieved, and results, for both management and staff of Safire severance tax clients. Specialize in Federal and Indian valuation, emphasis on marketable condition and Federal 2016 rule compliance. The process reviews ensure compliance with Federal and Indian and severance tax valuations. The valuation portfolios crafted include control points to aide with monthly reporting and to best prepare for valuing and reporting. Assist with audits, contract reviews for valuation compliance, and work alongside client accounting departments developing technical skills and ensuring internal controls are appropriate and effective.. Thirty years of experience in all aspects of oil and gas accounting brings positive and effective results for Safire’s clients.

Ketchum, Oklahoma

Broken Arrow,

Specializing in federal and indian royalty valuation with an emphasis in marketable condition and Federal 2016 rule compliance. Other agencies include Oklahoma Commissioners Land Office (CLO) and Texas General Land Office (GLO). Implement and assist with implementation or current month reporting as requested.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Managed federal and indian royalty monthly reporting along with responding to ONRR volumetric variances and audits. This included reviewing contracts and physical dispositions of oil and gas after severed from the lease. The review applied federal and indian regulations to ensure compliance. Reviewed third party plants with outside engineering consultant to assist in their calculation of allowable processing and transportation rates. Subsequently developed and implemented marketable condition valuation processes and controls. Led my team in development of processes and controls for implementation of Federal 2016 Rule as well as project plan.Reviewed processes at a global level to insure efficiency for all processes, question physical flow to validate royalty compliance and am forward thinking about pending legislation and business projects as to how it will impact team workload and still insure regulatory compliance. Additionally supervised indian tax valuation, reporting and compliance. Also managed severance tax holidays and its controls. Managed work processes by identifying potential improvements, system changes, control point tools, training of staff, and motivating personnel to a higher level. This includes pushing personnel to include in their business analysis system processes identifying areas for improvements to avoid rework and resource savings.

Systems Analyst with Enertia software working with IT on process changes, internal control identification and implementation. Worked on integrated gas balancing revenue process with system enhancements that were identified and implemented from thorough process reviews, system upgrades with coordination for revenue department with IT, conversion to system tax calculation and associated control points, development of internal control reports as accounting process changes were made, etc.

Gas Revenue Supervisor, OK, TX, NM. accounting treatment determinations, contract review, financial variance analysis, systems analyst, implementing A&D portfolio to current portfolio, regulatory compliance, plant accounting conversion from midstream to upstream, consistent accounting practice and control point identification and implementation, etc. Worked closely with contract admin personnel to help insure no major issues were overlooked for pending contracts for revenue recognition, royalty settlement, etc.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting

Magna Cum Laude

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Accounting