Marcus Leonard Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

• Generates joint interest billing (JIB) invoices for the company.• Establishes and maintains cost allocations for all operated properties.• Calculates saltwater disposal (SWD) and platform fees for the company’s operated properties.• Calculates and maintains Production Handing Agreements and Facility Use Agreements.• Reconciles joint interest billing (JIB) and general ledger accounts.• Establishes and maintains operated authority for expenditures (AFE’s) in Accounting System.• Reviews and reports to management monthly variances and reasons for a variance on lease operating cost.• Calculates and records drilling, producing, and major construction overhead for company-operated properties.• Prepares manual invoices for contract services provided by the company.• Establishes and maintains schedules for acquisition properties to properly record property allocations, SWD, Production Handling Agreements, and facility usage fees.• Works closely with Operations for ongoing issues and attends appropriate asset team meetings on a regular basis.

Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

• Managed and lead my team through counsel, guidance and coaching.• Primary Responsible for preparation of financial statements of multiple entities in US and abroad under US GAAP or IFRS.• Checked the accuracy of all the journal entries that subordinates prepared in ERP system (SAP and WolfePak). Provided instruction for correction if necessary.• Responsible for JV account control including JIB, cash call and entries.• Coordinate with external auditor and control audit schedule in US and Mexico• Coordinate with external tax preparer and control tax schedule in US and Mexico.• Setup accounting work flow for the new ERP system for new venture with support of team members and external experts.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed and lead my team through counsel, guidance and coaching.• Reviewed and advised/approved journal entries.• Evaluated performance and work efforts.• Assisted in performance appraisals.• Monthly update of cost center, vehicle, & employee allocations.• Appropriate JV Allocations, Overhead, and Cutback.• Non-Operated JIB preparation, review, and load to Bolo.• Operated JIB preparation, review, and load to Energy Link.• Liaising with Land, Treasury, Financial Reporting & Revenue on onboarding clients.• Month end account reconciliations.• Answered partner billing inquires.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Prepared monthly CAPEX Accrual analysis for the Mid-Con Gulf Coast and the San Antonio Regions.• Maintained all North American Suspense Accounts.• Prepared Journal Entries and GL Account Reconciliations.• Reconciled all Drilling Advance Accounts.• Processed AFEs for the Mid-Con Gulf Coast and San Antonio Regions.• Prepared monthly Depreciation analysis.• Reviewed and advised all capital JIB audits from partners/outside auditors.• Processed corrections/requests from the region personnel and processed partner inquiries as needed for all capital-related requests.• Compliance and review of joint operating agreements in accordance with GAAP and COPAS policies and procedures.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Initiated the Well Count and posted the Overhead for all Apache North America operated properties.• Prepared monthly U.S. Workover Analysis and Permian Region Variance Explanations.• Reconciled all GL accounts monthly related to materials/inventory.• Maintained Internal Controls.• Prepared monthly materials/inventory reports and metrics.• Traveled and performed physical inventories, reconciled, and prepared final summary reports.• Prepared and reconciled monthly manual billing report for all SWD, platforms, and facilities.• Processed partner inquiries and rebooked as needed for all overhead-related requests.• Assisted with Overhead-related JADE requests for Joint Venture Audits.• Reviewed and advised all JIB audits from partners/outside auditors.• Calculated and updated annual COPAS-driven overhead adjustments for all drilling and producing operated properties.Special Projects:• Spearheaded monthly, quarterly, and annual variance analysis threshold review to add efficiency to close process.• Designed the monthly manual billing report for all SWD, platforms, and facilities, which led to more efficiency for month/quarter/year end variance analysis. • Researched and reviewed all joint operating agreements to ensure accuracy and up-to-date joint interest billing.• Spearheaded the Avocet Well Count Recovery Audit to bill out unbilled overhead from 2013 forward. This project re-cooped Apache over $3.2 million.• Completed the E&Y annual escalation procedure project in which the information I provided is now the standard guideline.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Allocated employee time, vehicle mileage, lease hold, facility, and compressor costs for Shelf properties.• Created, prepared and processed entries related to PHAs, third-party and company-owned equipment billings.• Processed partner inquiries and rebooked as needed for Shelf properties.• Processed lease property billing for all North American Apache companies.• Performed monthly variance analysis on Shelf properties.• Reviewed, prepared and handled responses related to: owner, treasury, district/field office LOE inquiries, and JV audit requests.• Prepared and uploaded monthly journal entries for cash deposits and wire transfers.• Prepared monthly account reconciliations, LOS reviews and metrics. • Resolved joint interest owner issues as they arose.• Assisted with JADE requests for Joint Venture Audits.• Participated in physical inventories for region.• Created and maintained the Shelf Shore base, Boat, Helicopter, and Area Cost Center allocation cycles.Special Projects:• Led the Shelf property and platform profitability analysis, which led to management divesting over 8,000 properties.• Led coordination and research of multiple high-value joint venture audits between multiple regions. Apache was initially audited and requested to pay $19 million. After the project, Apache requested and received $76K from various owners.• Trained other employees on monthly, quarterly, and annual Shelf and Permian region responsibilities.• Led multiple region physical inventory valuations.

• Served as a member of an audit team, reviewed financial statements and records, audited operations.• Made recommendations for corrective actions of unsatisfactory conditions.• Reviewed internal control structures, performed special reviews, and conducted internal audits.• Assisted with improvements in operations and reductions in costs, monitored vendor contracts for compliance with contractual terms, and reviewed all applicable laws and regulations for all projects and operations.• Responsible for training all new employees.• Completed cash reconciliation and verified daily deposits.