KELLY A. HOOT

Experience

Motiva – Houston, Texas January 2019-Present

Treasury Analyst (Contract)

●Cash positioning, including balancing accounts, monitoring fund flows, and releasing liquidity

●Bank account administration

●Implementation of bank account functions

●Basic cash investment and FX

●Working knowledge of Microsoft applications, and ERP systems

●Assist the cash manager with other cash management tasks upon request

Technip – Houston, Texas October 2018- December 2018

Cash Analyst (Contract)

●Assist with the Opening/Closing/Change of Bank Accounts and online banking access of US and Mexico entities;

●update internal documentation; ensure all entities and bank Resolutions are up to date

●Assist with the preparation of the various reports required by Group Treasury: Cash and Debt Report

● (CDR – bimonthly) and Treasury Forecast Long Term (TREFLT - quarterly) reports and others upon request.

●Assist the cash manager with other cash management tasks upon request

●Assist with bank cash management systems and implementation. Knowledge of GEOS ERP system.

●Internal Treasury systems used – Diapason (Treasury workstation developed by MCC), Prophix, and Hyperion

Constellation Energy – Houston, Texas September 2016 -March 2018

Business Analyst

●Develop customized reports provided by integrated systems, including Passport, People Soft, and Impromptu

●Provide business function support in various power delivery settings

●Provide clerical, and some administrative support

●Utilize PC and Mainframe applications, such as Microsoft Office, Time, EERS, and Passport

●Perform detailed reconciliation, and analysis to determine customer balances

●Assist AP and AR teams to support customer and supplier inquiries

● Review open customer invoices in customer portals and report status

● Assist Credit and Collection team with customer inquiries

Methodist Hospital – Houston, Texas December 2015-Septemer 2016

Accountant -Treasury Management Services (Contract)

●Prepare detailed weekly monthly and quarterly accounting reports.

●Track and analyze financial data.

●Prepare and check credit card receivables spreadsheets.

●Maintain consistent journal entries and prepare regular Excel summaries of entries.

●Journal creation for treasury transactions

●Perform detailed internal audits.

●Prepare monthly bank reconciliations.

●Identify, report, and resolve any accounting discrepancies.

●Prepare accounting reports and financial statements.

●Liaise with management on various projects

Sunoco Logistics-Sugarland, Texas May 2015-December 2015

Station Log Reconciliation Analyst (Contract)

●Support existing ticket analysts in day to day transactions

●Investigate ticket issues and make corrections

●Gather corrections with the field operation personnel and update the system accordingly

●Analyze ticket quality report and identify duplicates, missing or erroneous tickets

●Reconcile the stations logs to determine actual barrel amounts collected

●Transaction management

Paradigm Geophysical-Houston, Texas

Treasury Analyst (Contract) March 2014 – June 2014

●Provided daily reports on all cash account balances in order to identify excess and/or insufficient balances

●Daily review of all bank transactions

●Executed 5-10 wire transfers, daily, for the Intercompany, and 3rd party wires that needed to be executed

●Working knowledge of Microsoft applications and SAP functionalities

●Reconciled accounts with Bank of America, TD, Band of Scotland, and HSBC banks on a daily basis by comparing data in the banking reports with the forecasted amounts.

●Cash management

Hess Corporation– Houston, Texas

Cash Management Analyst (Contract) December 2013 – February 2014

●Reviews and interprets financial results in with business managers

●Drafts insightful accounting analysis, and maintains a basic understanding of financial systems and data elements

●Assists in the preparation of management reporting and analytical tools

●Generates reconciliations and accounts analyses

●Validates accounting assumptions with Accounting Manager and/or business managers

●Aware of and monitors compliance of processes, transactions and balances with accounting / finance policies

●Assists in implementing appropriate accounting policies and procedures

Noble Drilling – Sugarland, Texas September 2013 – November 2013

Treasury Analyst (Contract)

●Maintain a record of accounts receivable cash collections on a daily basis

●Review monthly account analyses from each bank for compliance with agreements and monthly

transactional volumes for all bank accounts maintained by the corporate office.

●Research payment processing issues as needed

●Process positive pay files

●Provide treasury/banking support and investment support to divisional operations as authorized

●Pcard set up and activation, and any changes that need to be made to a Pcard account.

●Prepare and consolidate corporate cash flow forecast

Technip – Houston, Texas May 2013 – September 2013

Treasury Analyst (Contract)

●Oracle implementation – ie. Identify problems that are happening with this recent upgrade, what reports were enhanced with this upgrade, communicate with IT, AP and other groups that might be involved with the problem.

●Clean up all bank accounts – about 30 of them. Determine the need for the account, and how much it is costing

to keep it open.

●Reconcile the accounts with a download from Oracle, and the bank. Match the AP & AR movements according to the value date.

●Submit wire transfers, and wire requests through the bank website. Obtain signatures from all who have authority to sign off on wires, depending on their threshold.

Weatherford – Houston, Texas April 2012 – September 2012

Reconciliation Analyst (Contract)

●Worked with Treasury/banking electronic platforms

●Worked in Citibank TreasuryVision to reconcile bank accounts

●Reconciled accounts using MS suite of products, Outlook, Excel, and Word

●Reconciled LC accounts and documents

●Assisted with wire confirmations for accounting

●Assist Tax team with gathering data for audits and compliance projects

Halliburton – Houston, Texas February 2008 – September 2011

Treasury Analyst

●Supported Halliburton’s corporate Treasury department as treasury analyst of all cash pools globally

●Provided daily reports on all cash pool balances in order to identify excess and/or insufficient cash pool balances

●Assisted supervisor and treasury manager in development of liquidity structures that ensure the company will have adequate access to funds.

●Assist Credit and Collection team with customer inquiries

●Executed approved quarterly dividend payments, acquisition payments, tax payments, and other special corporate payments.

●Assisted in the opening of new accounts, changes of current accounts, and closing accounts globally

●Reconciled the pooled accounts with CITI, RBS, and HSBC banks on a monthly basis by comparing data in SAP, HTDB, and banking reports

●Working knowledge of Microsoft applications and SAP functionalities

●Utilize investment portal to identify the best funds available for investing excess cash, held for working capital needs.

●Assist Tax team with gathering data for audits and compliance projects

●Executed 15-20 wire transfers, daily, for the pooled accounts I was in charge of maintaining balances

●Monitored the foreign currency accounts SGD, CAD, UAE, RUB etc… and determined the trades that were necessary for each account to remain at their target balance

Skills

Advanced proficiency with Banking/Treasury systems (CITI, RBS, HSBC), Advanced Excel, SAP, Oracle, and Access

Education

August 1994 to May 1995, Kingwood Community College

August 1995 to December 1998, Graduated with a BBA, Business Administration at Sam Houston State University

March 2015 to April 2016, MBA in Finance from AIU

KELLY A. HOOT: Phone 281-***-**** Email: ac8e7l@r.postjobfree.com

Contact this candidate