Engineer Accounts Payable
Resume:
VIRGINIA V. WHITAKER
Houston, Texas
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CAREER SUMMARY
Over 12 years of experience with Oil and Gas Industry. Proficient in complex data processing, researching analyzing, monitoring and reporting functions. Possess and utilizes a strong background in Accounting and Finance to consistently achieve team and individual goals. Proven ability in collaborating and communicating with colleagues at all levels to excel in multidisciplinary groups and achieve objectives.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Newfield Exploration Company, Houston, TX 2003 – 2015
Accounts Payable Specialist
Provided invoice coding and cost control including account reconciliations for LOE, G&A and Capital invoices to ensure costs are booked and allocated properly.
Researched and resolved disputed charges, documentation, and pricing issues as well as supporting Field Coders and Accounts Payable for discrepancies and vendor issues resulting in 80% improvement.
Created and implemented letter to vendors who had lack of supporting documents. This expedited invoices processing on time, that resulted in 75% decreased daily phone calls.
Designed the manual coding procedure to guide Field coders, Foremen, Consultants and other team members to ensure proper accounting coding and reduced coding errors by 50%.
Advised Accounting Department of miscoded invoices and duplicated charges and provided the correct account code for adjustment to reflect in LOE statement, which reduced errors by 80%.
Assisted on month-end closing for accruals and financial reporting to support Financial Analyst.
Verified and analyzed audit exceptions and corrected to ensure accounting records for each project were allocated properly.
Tracked Lease Operating Expenses to compare actual costs vs budget. Analyzed and reconciled expense variances by Field or property level and provided reports to Engineer when variances were greater than 10%.
Provided support for 3 business units in AFE and LOE estimation and project cost tracking.
Managed complex preparation of 9 Production Engineer’s annual Lease Review of 33 fields by gathering data, calculation and creating graphs to successfully present Budget Planning to Senior Management.
Researched wells and maintained multiple databases of trends. Generated production reports and updated spreadsheets and plots to support engineering needs for continuous improvement.
EEX Corporation, Houston, TX 1998 – 2002
Accountant
Reconciled monthly bank statements of thirty accounts.
Booked and balanced miscellaneous daily cash receipts and joint interest billing.
Prepared monthly journal entries, overhead, cash calls and prepaid insurance.
Prepared monthly aging and scheduled report.
Assisted on AFE set up. Ran miscellaneous queries on cash.
Helped with Revenue booking. Reconciled inter-company and property accounts.
Assisted in Joint Interest Billing and month end closing activities.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Finance, University of the East, Philippines
SKILLS
Oracle, ADP open invoice, Oildex, Excalibur, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access
Wellview, Drilling Info, PRA, Enerdeq, HPDI, AFE Navigator, Petra
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