Marketing Marine Accounting Supervisor
Oxy
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supervise, train, and develop a 3+ person team specializing in crude marine volumes actualizations and settlements;
- Cultivate a strong team culture within the group to encourage collaboration and cross training within the team;
- Oversee the volumes actualizations and settlements process for all crude marine activity ensuring that it is completed on-time and accurately.
- Ensure payable invoices are reconciled to the trading system and paid on-time.
- Ensure sales invoices are sent timely to ensure cash is received on-time.
- Assist team in researching volume discrepancies.
- Review monthly/daily cash forecasts and identify ways to improve accuracy of a 3 month forecast.
- Provide working capital variance explanations to treasury weekly, or as needed.
- Assist team in research and settlement of aged receivables and payables.
- Perform month-end closing procedures and submit reports on-time in accordance with the department calendar and schedule.
- Analyze inventory and explain volumetric variances between current month, prior month, and forecasts.
- Perform month-end closing procedures and submit reports on-time in accordance with the department calendar and schedule.
- Review, approve, and understand account reconciliations ensuring that reconciling items are addressed timely.
- Collaborate with the financial analysis team for balance sheet and income statement analysis and margin tie-outs.
- Preparation and posting of recurring, standard and adjusting journal entries in accordance with GAAP.
- Create measurable metrics within the team to hold staff accountable for their assigned tasks.
- Assist with ad hoc reports and special assignments when needed (i.e., system implementation (Allegro 8, SAP).
- Provide assistance to the analysis team for audit and tax requests (internal and external).
- Manage relationships with and regularly provide support to front office, mid office, credit, and treasury.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance with at least 21 hours of accounting.
- Energy Marketing industry experience (10 + years).
- Relevant marine and/or crude specific experience as a Volume Actualizations or Settlements Supervisor (5+ years).
- Exceptional analytical and organizational skills.
- Highly motivated and has the ability to manage, motivate, and develop a large team to ensure deadlines are met.
- Efficiently delegates tasks and manages work allocation amongst team to ensure deadlines are met.
- Capacity to maintain an optimistic and positive attitude through adversity.
- Team-oriented spirit who displays a willingness to help others within the organization as a whole.
- Motivated, self-directed and results-driven approach to work, also takes ownership of assigned tasks.
- Strong communication skills.
- Creative thinker who can identify processes for continuous process improvement opportunities.
- Strong decision-making skills who can independently solve problems for his/her team.
- Ability to anticipate issues and how they impact the team or other stakeholders, and act on them in advance.
- Employ fundamental accounting skills: general ledger, inventory; accounts payable, accounts receivable and account reconciliations.
- Demonstrated ability to streamline and improve processes.
- Working proficiency and knowledge in Excel, i.e. mining/manipulating data.
- Quick learner who is enthusiastic about using technology and is tech-savvy.
- Experience using a trading system, Allegro 8 experience a plus.
- Overtime will be required during critical times.