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Temporary consulting engagement extended from 3 month to 9 months. Facilitated Billing Operations department with special projects, daily deposits, coordinating documentation flow, and implementing billing payment controls. During COVID quarantine, became essential employee for department and took over responsibilities of many groups.

First accountant for startup company Cobra T&D. Set up accounting processes and fixed asset system. Backup for accounts payable when needed. Managed credit card account and accounting for expenditures. Monthly close and managerial reporting.

Lead Revenue Owner Relations Group within accounting department to assist royalty interest owners and working interest owners with high-level analysis of royalty payments. Tracked owner inquiries and documented timely resolution. Reported group indices to management and coordinated team projects with other departments. Coordinated and worked on projects with Division Orders, Land, Legal and Marketing. Documented ROR reference materials and took responsibility for streamlining calculations and processes.

Gathering, Transportation, and Processing Adept at all phases of GTP departmental group. Able to find solutions that are often “outside of the box”. Selected Contributions:Within first six months, set up Gathering position processes and recorded flow of Quorum System processes for all applications involved in the production month close.Designed Quorum update testing for GTP department and worked on team to verify 100% accuracy of results.Implemented monthly trending report to aid in checking for margin component mistakes; this report has become an important tool for executives and upper management to make business decisions.Took responsibility for updating GPA 2145-09 conversion factors in Quorum, and worked up new chart for the plant reports which were updated with these calculations. Learned GPA 2172 equasions.Implemented more accurate means of valuing NGL Inventory, Keepwhole, POP, and Purchase for Resale Margins. Assisted in determining shrink estimates.

Recruited for position to implement Great Plains software usage in the accounting department and design financial statement package for Board of Directors and Bank. Selected Contributions:Took financial statement preparation to automated process.Designed and implemented plan to prepare all financial reports by customer segment; this was accomplished with small amount of data insertion which was a minimal cost for Simons, no outside consultant required.Automated budget information upload for budgeting reports through General Ledger software.Setup Forecaster software, a Great Plains product. Implemented Great Plains software for accounting.Trained accounting department to use Great Plains software, upload JEs, and run necessary reports.

job consulting with various large businesses in Oklahoma City and Norman. Most consulting engagements were to replace an existing controller. This position required quick understanding of the business, vacant position, and training the new replacement controller for assuming the position. Selected Contributions:Able to document processes and responsibilities of the exiting controller. Assumed business and management functions until ready to turn over to replacement employee with smooth transition.Creatively implemented new processes or ways to add value to companies.Ease of transitioning to different job responsibilities and different business structures.Assignments always lasted longer than scheduled; retained for longer period due to vast experience.

Managed taxes, both federal and state, for operations in 26 states, revenue in 50 states, for income taxes, property taxes, sales tax, and all other telecommunication taxes and regulatory filings.Oversaw 6 concurrent sales tax audits with different states.Maintained good business relationships with state and property tax officials and saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars each year due to protesting property tax valuations and protesting at local tax hearings.Designed and built processes to comply with tax reporting requirements of 50 states and 26 different companies. Consistently met deadlines.

Performed every function possible in the accounting department and managed a group of four in fixed asset and Federal, State, and Local taxes. Selected Contributions:Built and maintained fixed asset records and depreciation books, when none existed.Built work-in-process records and functions.Built processes to run payroll and reconcile YTD reports.Set up system to maintain and review real estate and airplane records, which was later turned over to Legal.Converted fixed assets, depreciation, and P&E records into Lawson software, and designed reporting via Crystal Reports.Integrated Fixed Asset records with Property Tax functions.Tracked capital projects for telephone company, fiber system, and cellular company. Accountable for REA and RTB federal funds, payments on plant expansion a cable projects, and clarifying completion of work with engineering firm. Perfect record with REA auditor.