Ruslan Pashayev Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

• Analyze, report, forecast, and track key financial and non-financial data, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Collaborate with senior management, finance colleagues, and controllers to provide performance analysis and contribute to strategic decision-making
• Monitor distribution business profitability, manage cost control, and follow up on re-invoicing agreements and time writing to ensure accurate invoicing
• Lead the annual Budget and Business Plan processes, including target setting, while preparing management presentations and ensuring compliance with company policies

Consistently demonstrating exceptional performance in app developments. Successfully tackling complex coding challenges, actively participating in collaborative projects, and continuously receiving positive feedback from instructors and peers alike.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Performing budget management tasks such as monitoring company performance against estimates and preparing annual budgets and quarter re-forecasts
• Developing, maintaining, and constantly improving Excel-based accrual and budget models by adding automation and optimization, which saves time and decreases human-factor errors
• Providing analyses of budget-to-actual variances

• Identify commercial and operational issues and work with managers to resolve concerns
• Created Decision Support Tool to automate decision process in case of gas shortage and streamline sales efficiency
• Participate and provide commercial support in negotiations of new multimillion Gas Sales and Transportation Agreements
• Complete on a regular basis various reports to the management and board of directors and analyze each report to decide where improvements could be made
• Prepare long and short-term gas price and supply/demand forecasts to maximize the sales through optimal allocation of available gas volume
• Develop and implement the Business Process Model of the company to overview and improve the processes

Azerbaijan

• Identify commercial and operational issues and work with managers to resolve concerns
• Created Decision Support Tool to automate decision process in case of gas shortage and streamline sales efficiency
• Participate and provide commercial support in negotiations of new multimillion Gas Sales and Transportation Agreements
• Complete on a regular basis various reports to the management and board of directors and analyze each report to decide where improvements could be made
• Prepare long and short-term gas price and supply/demand forecasts to maximize the sales through optimal allocation of available gas volume
• Develop and implement the Business Process Model of the company to overview and improve the processes

• Led team of 6 in sales and service operations
• Evaluated documentation such as invoices and operational reports for accuracy and compliance
• Ensured the integrity of the contract configuration in the systems and suggested changes in the functionalities required for timely implementation of the new contracts
• Developed MS Access based Log and Schedule system to record operational events and generate detailed reports for further analysis
• Trained over 10 employees on business principles, best practices, protocol and system usage
• Analyzed variable data for commercial operations to determine areas for improvement and increased efficiency

• Performed day-to-day allocation of available gas volume to downstream customers to maximize profit and meet contractual obligations
• Coordinated upstream, midstream and downstream to resolve the issues raised due to operations curtailment
• Issued accurate monthly, quarterly and annual invoices and handled incoming invoices
• Supported internal IT team in implementing tailor made IT solutions
• Administered the user accounts in the dispatching and invoicing systems and provided high-level support to the users

• Issued payable invoices and prepared Withholding Tax Report in a timely manner
• Wrote reports, authored papers and organized supporting documentation
• Posted financial data in Quick Books and managed inventory
• Diminished financial discrepancies and accurately reconciled accounts using detailed data analysis results

Baku, Azerbaijan

• Developed MS Access based expenses control and reporting application
• Managed daily accounting operations, including closing, reporting and reconciliation functions.
• Maintained internal controls and safeguards for costs, budgets and expenditures

Baku, Azerbaijan

• Developed and implemented applications for controlling manufacturing processes
• Installed and calibrated level sensors
• Provided support for implemented software

Master Of Business Administration (Mba),, General

Partnership program proposed by Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and the Azerbaijan State.

Bachelor, Computer Aided Manufacturing

High School