Manager Project
Resume:
HORACE JOHN CREDEUR
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QUALIFICATION Summary
Accounting professional with 20+ years of experience coordinating the
reporting for plant and corporate management with emphasis in financial
reporting, budgets, month-end closing, accruals, cost reporting,
operational data and reporting, system upgrades, cost center reporting, job
costing, project accounting, purchasing, and supervisory experience.
Willingness to take on additional challenges and responsibilities.
Professional Experience
Valero Refining, Port Arthur, tx
08-2008 to 02-2009
Contractor
Assisted with bi-annual reporting for Solomon and set up procedures for
Solomon Profile on a monthly and annual basis used to report scorecard Key
Performance Indicators. Worked with all levels of management to assign
personnel to gather data and establish a time line to meet deadline for
submission.
Turner Industries, Deer Park, TX
02-2008 To 07-2008
Accounting Manager
Cost reporting and billing for Industrial Contractor performing
maintenance work, capital projects, and lump sum contracts for major
Refiner\Chemical Company. Timekeeping, equipment rental, overhead
analysis, and third party and affiliated billing reimbursement per outline
agreement. Supervised five employees.
Valero Energy Corporation (Large Refiner in the United States), Purchased
Basis Petroleum Refinery Operations in 1997
1997-2007
From 1999 to 2006, Financial Analysis Superintendent and promoted to
Manager Management Reporting in 2007 at Texas City, TX facility.
After a major construction project and unit upgrades, Texas City was
ranked in the top five out of seventeen facilities operated by Valero
Energy (230,000 barrels per day facility). Supervised four employees.
. Assisted plant management with annual budget and five year forecasting
plan developing Key Performance Indicators aimed at reducing operating
costs and improving reliability and profitability. Reporting of actual
costs and indices to forecasted costs and indices on a monthly and annual
basis with explanation for variances. Solomon reporting and maintenance
cost reporting.
. Yield and Inventory balancing used for daily profit and loss reporting
in SAP. Reconciliation of receipts and shipments of products for
refinery with scheduling department. Transfer pricing for products.
. Volume and pricing settlement, per contract, using daily natural gas
prices for purchases of natural gas, hydrogen, and oxygen for two
facilities; including baseload and swing volumes on a monthly basis.
. Assisted Project Engineering department with an EPC contract for the
construction of Coker Unit, along with associated tankage and piping,
which was completed under budget. Audit invoices to EPC rates, third
party documentation, vendor payment request, SAP cost reporting, and
additional review for support required by contract. Assisted Turnaround
and Project Engineering department with cost reporting for major upgrade
of FCCU.
. Sarbanes Oxley compliance for product movements, inventory, and meter
measurement; GAAP.
Warehouse Supervisor (1997-1999)
Reduced carrying value of inventory by working with vendors setting up
consignment inventory for certain spare parts and free issues. Supervised
four employees.
. Team leader in conversion of warehouse system to SAP to improve reporting
and accuracy of inventory; eliminating obsolete parts. Conducted annual
cycle counts with external\internal auditors.
. Purchasing and expediting for warehouse, capital projects, and for
turnarounds.
Basis Petroleum, Inc., Houston, TX, (Spin off of Trading business
associated with Refinery Operations of three facilities located on the Gulf
Coast from Phibro Energy). 1990-1997
Foreign Trade Zone Coordinator (1996-1997)
. Implemented system for refinery reporting weekly, monthly, and yearly
data to maintain records for U.S. Customs' Regulations. Saving to company
by paying duty only when products shipped into the United States and ad
valorem taxes.
Senior Cost Analysts (1994-1996)
. Monthly entries, accruals, product costing, inventory valuation, and mark
to market for refined products.
Manager of Inventory \ Exchange Accounting (1992-1994)
Monthly settlement of volumes and dollars for refined products with
exchange partner, terminal operators, pipeline operators, and marketing.
Included supply agreements, LPG\Chemical fractionation agreements, crude,
and settlement of various taxes.
. Monthly Wholesale Rack Marketing profit and loss statement. Supervised
five employees.
Questor Drilling Corp., Houston, TX (Subsidiary of Phibro Energy, USA)
1990-1992
Controller
October 1990 to December 1990 and March 1991 to May 1992-Houston, TX.
Worked with management in areas of Accounts Receivables and credit\
collections. Developed inventory system to manage equipment for drilling
rigs. Supervised five employees.
. Managed general accounting and monthly financial reporting for Questor
management and parent company.
. Supervised staff of five including additional areas of human resources,
payroll, and insurance functions.
Phibro Energy, Commodity trading company with principal offices in
Connecticut.
Senior Analyst working for Refinery Operations, Houston, TX
1989-1990
Project leader for a Yield Accounting and Product Movement system to
standardized the reporting for four refineries to corporate office. Format
and methodology was used until upgraded to SAP.
. Assisted with implementation of Foreign Trade Zone for a Texas refinery.
Hill Petroleum Company (Refinery operations purchased by Phibro Energy
while in bankruptcy and integrated into its trading business July, 1985)
1979-1989
Refinery Accounting Manager (1981 to 1989) Krotz Springs, LA
Responsible for yield accounting, general ledger, and accounts
receivable\payable, budgets, management reporting, inventory accounting for
two facilities. Also included credit and IT functions.
GeneraL Ledger\Cost Accountant (1979 to 1981), Houston, TX
Responsible for monthly closing for crude oil processing agreements, cost
reporting, forecasting gross margin, and analysis of actual to forecast.
Prior to 1979, Project Accountant, BS&B, Engineering and Construction
Company. Cost reporting for percentage of completion and lump sum
contracts.
Computer\System Proficiencies
SAP, SAP BW, Excel, Advisor, Track, Solomon Profile, AS400, JD Edwards
Education
BS, Accounting, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA.
Accolades
Volunteer of the year 2004 for Texas City Refinery.
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