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Stafford, Texas, Us

The Woodlands, Texas, Us

TETRA is a New York Stock Exchange-listed energy services company focused on bromine-based completion fluids and calcium chloride, as well as water management solutions, frac flowback, and production well testing services. - Report to the CFO. Serve as Global Controller and CAO for this business.- Lead a team of 28 finance and accounting professionals; it was 45 people pre-divestiture.- Act as general commercial and transition support for acquisitions and divestitures, refinancing, and investor relations. Implement and execute capital markets and other funding transactions.- Perform FP&A for routine and ad hoc reporting, including development of big data analytics and visualization.- In charge of NYSE (TTI) and NASDAQ (CCLP) SEC reporting, business and corporate accounting, insurance, credit and risk management, accounts payable, and accounts receivable.- Manage the annual audit process including interactions with the Audit Committee and full Board.- Collaborate with the Audit Committee and the Board on financial strategy, balance sheet structure, risk management activity, and the general performance of the company.- Oversee asset-based lending (ABL) and term loan compliance management.- Coordinate delivery of third-party technical report summaries and economic analyses for TETRA’s bromine and lithium brine extraction development opportunity in southwest Arkansas.- Coordinate government grant and loan applications for low carbon energy business lines.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

BHP is a multinational mining company that is one of the world’s top producers of commodities. Their 2022 revenue reached $66 billion. The company is listed on the Australian, London, and New York stock exchanges.- Sold three shale business units to BP for $10.5B. Sold another business unit to a private company for $300M.- Managed all financial and operational aspects of the transition of these business units to the buyers.- Also continued to operate the shale businesses during the transition period.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Reported to President of North America Shale, with a dotted line to CFO of Petroleum. Served as divisional CFO of BHP’s shale business in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Led a team of 90 finance and accounting professionals. - Achieved peak annual revenues of more than $4B and peak EBITDA of more than $2B in 2014.- Managed business and commercial support to the shale leadership team including executive management for delivery of well-level cost analytics and big data visualization.- Provided financial, due diligence, and transition oversight during acquisition and divestiture activity. Collaborated with internal corporate development teams in the USA and Australia as well as investment bankers in New York.- Played a key role in the development and execution of a turnaround strategy after the 2014-5 oil price crash.- Led finance aspects of the cost transformation process which delivered sustainable savings of more than 35% of controllable cash costs in 12 months.- Oversaw reduction of annual capital expenditures from over $4B to less than $600M within three years in response to rapid decline in commodity prices. This was followed by a disciplined ramp up back to $1B, as rates of return increased, through cost reductions and price improvements.- Generated positive cash flow for the division for the first time in 2017. The senior leadership team led a cost-out program to reach every corner of the business / expense category to generate better rates of return.- Introduced gas price hedging for the first time to lock in prices. - Led long-range strategy and short-term planning cycles. Managed budgeting, forecasting, and cost management.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Managed a team of approximately 130 people working in Revenue, Joint Venture Accounting, Joint Venture Audit, and Fixed Assets. Oversaw Sarbanes Oxley compliance-related activities for these areas.- Led the post-acquisition integration of Petrohawk Energy and Chesapeake’s Fayetteville Shale business. This included delivery of simultaneous U.S. GAAP and international IFRS accounting standards. It also included the reengineering of BHP’s SAP (ERP) to accommodate the new onshore business unit’s requirements.- Led the business cutover process for Petroleum finance during BHP’s “1SAP” implementation.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Provided finance business partner support to the Gulf of Mexico Production Unit and Joint Interest Unit. By 2009, net production for these fields was more than 100 kilo barrels of oil equivalent (kboe) per day.- Oversaw financial management of BHP’s Gulf of Mexico fields on the shelf and in the deepwater which included significant modelling and economics-related work.- Led joint venture audit negotiations with several of BHP’s partners.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- In charge of financial aspects of BHP’s portfolio of pre-development and early development projects. These included both operated and non-operated projects.- Although based in Houston, this role had a global remit and required travel to China and Australia to meet with joint venture partners and local personnel administering the projects.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Provided financial support to the project teams who were executing the development of the Neptune and Shenzi fields, BHP’s first operated deepwater Gulf of Mexico developments.- The role provided significant exposure to project management; Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management (EPCM) contract administration; and investment toll-gating processes.- Joined BHP in October 2002. Promoted several times to Finance Advisor in April 2005.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Literature (2I)

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