Financial Managment

Keith Simper

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Cypress Tx. 77433

aczp0v@r.postjobfree.com

281-***-****: Cell

Summary

Finance System Professional with broad financial and operational experience in private industry and management consulting. Strong skills in analysis, project management consolidation, reconciliation, data mining and hierarchy maintenance. Participated in all levels of financial reporting from preliminary budgets through year-end closing including consolidations.

Qualifications and strengths include:

Financial Reporting / Analysis Fixed Asset Accounting Consolidations

Budget Preparation / Review Accounting Systems Conversion Account Reconciliation

Project Management Data Mining Report Development

Critical Skills

Computer Applications include:

MS Office – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access SAP TM1

Oracle Hyperion

Cognos JD Edwards

Business Objects Essbase

Professional Experience

Hunstman Corporation, Houston, TX 09/16 – Present

Consultant

Month end review of IT Budget to Actuals Opex for all Business Units

Develop and submit JE’s as necessary to move costs to correct cost center or account

Attend PPMC (Project Performance Management Committee) meetings to help with review and approval process of upcoming projects.

Help determine need for accruals on a monthly basis.

Special projects as needed including review and reconciliation of Opex project reporting and review of tax accrual.

Review and approve JE’s for KL employee as needed.

Spinnaker Management, Houston, TX 06/16 – 09/16

Independent Consultant

Reconciliation of bank statements on a daily basis.

Analysis and clean up on intercompany accounts

Analysis and clean up of Equity accounts.

Accounts Payables analysis and application on a daily basis.

Treasury management of cash functions in backup of controller

Sirius Solutions, Houston, TX 02/08 – 03/16

Sr. Business Consultant

Provided a broad scope of project management,financial, and accounting services on a contractual basis to a diverse base of clients.

Assisted with FP&A Project at Direct Energy implementing and expanding the use of the Business Objects tool to assist with budgeting and mid-management reporting focused on KPI’s

Filled in at Intertek in the FP&A role at year end to help finalize the forecast for upcoming year using Cognos and TM1.

Assisted with month end close at BMC and Merrill Lynch including consolidation, balance sheet reconciliations, data validation, and preparation of journal entries.

Set up new general ledger accounts, sub accounts, cost centers, and intercompany relationships in both JDE and Oracle.

Special projects as needed including preparation of stand alone legal entity financials, FRY 11 tie outs for regulatory reporting, equity validation, and other requests from legal and corporate.

Assisted in SOX project management and set up at Merrill Lynch and in answering internal audit data queries and questions.

Maintained Capital Expenditures report and Proceeds from Assets report and distributed on a monthly basis at Cameron.

Project Management lead for Sirius Solutions JDE implementation team at Flotek which included pulling, loading, and reconciling data from legacy system to new JDE GL.

Assisted with all facets of the fixed assets process including opening and closing work orders in SAP FA module. This included disposals, transfers and sales of fixed assets.

Grant Prideco, Houston, TX

Sr. Reporting System Analyst 05/04 – 12/07

Key member of three person implementation team in Global Financial Systems group for Cognos Finance reporting system.

Responsible for loading, error correction and trouble shooting of Cognos Finance systems including budget, forecast, and actuals.

Maintain all conversion tables ETL tools for Cognos Finance systems

Developed reports in Cognos Finance and Interactive excel modules used by accounting, finance and management.

Marathon Oil Company, Houston, TX

Accounting Analyst

11/02-05/04

Responsible for running of BCS monthly close process including data monitor and consolidation monitor functions.

Prepare board package on a monthly basis. Package includes financial statements and analysis for Controller and CFO.

Special projects such as sales and acquisitions as they relate to consolidation accounting.

Support of SEC filings group on a quarterly and year end basis.

Analyze and tie out data from GL systems to consolidation system.

UBS Warburg, Houston, TX 02/02-11/02

Senior Accountant

Analyze and input daily cash entries, reconcile balance sheet accounts, and cash settle intercompany

accounts.

Enron, Houston, TX 07/98-02/02

Sr. Specialist

SAP Consolidations Module financial team reporting loads (includes data load, retained earnings roll and currency translation), tie outs and trouble shooting for three business Units (Enron Americas, Enron Broadband and Enron Principal Investing).

Coordinating Profit Center, Cost Center and Company setups for three Business Units.

Loaded, tied out, and corrected seven months of Enron Broadband data. Helped solve significant hierarchical, Profit Center, and Cost Center problems.

Loaded, tied out, and trouble shoot Enron North America Hyperion system for Enron North America financial reports.

Maintain and migrate twelve standard and alternative hierarchies used to produce financial team reports for three business units

H.I.S.D., Houston, TX 08/96-07/98

Budget Analyst

Manage, coordinate, prepare, audit, recommend and follow up on budgets for schools and

district offices.

Alcoa, Point Comfort, TX 06/95-08/96

Construction Accountant(Contract)

Maintained established controls on contractor purchases and sales tax. Furnished and maintained

monthly cost reports for Construction and Environmental area managers.

Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX 05/93-06/95

Property Accountant

Reconciled drilling work orders and processed acquisition and retirement entries to PP&E ledgers.

Education

BBA – Finance Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

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