Sr Financial Analyst

Gregory Huitt

************@*****.*** 907-***-**** Deltona, FL

SR. FINANCIAL & PROJECT ANALYST

A determined professional with experience at all management levels, excels in fast-paced environments by providing leadership and smart solutions for informed decision-making. A results-driven leader with extensive expertise in financial analysis, project controls, cost analysis, grant administration, program management, and business management.

Skills

Performance Tracking Forecasting Variances Analysis Accruals Allocations Project Controls Project Budgeting Earned Value Management Cost Performance Tracking WBS Development Risk Reviews Contingency Reviews Financial Analysis Consolidation Business Analysis Portfolio Management Program Management Compliance Collaboration Process Improvement Ad-hoc Reporting Microsoft Office Excel PowerPoint Word SAP R/3,S/4, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Tibco Spotfire Power BI Teradata SQL Assistant VBA Work Independently Team Oriented

EXPERIENCES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

SENIOR ANALYST to ConocoPhillips Alaska, Fairweather, LLC Deltona, FL 03/2024 – Current

SENIOR ANALYST, ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. Anchorage, AK 05/2013 – 07/2021

Finance Liaison to the Wells Organization providing accounting guidance, budgeting, forecasting, SOX compliance, ad-hoc projects, cost support/financial results and analysis for the Capital and Expense budgets.

Developed/prepared budgets and monthly forecasts for Capital and Expense projects and provide to Asset Financial Analyst for Corporate reporting, ~$250MM annually.

Performed detailed review of Capital Project and purchase requests from funding to final approval and closeout.

Coordinated with Project Managers (PMs) to develop/prepare monthly Value of Work Done (VOWD) for projects.

Verify accuracy, identify business trends, problem areas and identified monthly cost variance: actuals, budget, and forecast, provide analysis to Project Manager (PMs), Supervising Engineer and Asset Analyst.

Complete month-end duties: account reconciliation and coordinated collection of financial data from various systems, prepare Monthly Finance Performance Report, review and present to Leadership Team.

Researched and prepared correcting Journal Entries, research vendor payment issues and make recommendations for resolution.

Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established policy, procedures, training, and team member involvement activities.

Optimization and process improvement

Automation using Spotfire visualizations gaining 10 hours a month of productive time per analyst.

Assist with development of new Spotfire based Cost Reporting system with IT, problem-solving, needs definitions, data sourcing, system development testing and reports standardization.

Automated daily project listing and cost tracking worksheet with direct link to Teradata database.

Designed Spotfire visualization suites for other departments that provided automation of historical project costs and assist with current cost reporting in real-time.

Created an Excel workbook that consolidated the monthly reporting between North Slope fields and automated the Monthly Finance Performance Report using data links and array functions.

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST, Southern Home Services Maitland, FL 09/2021 – 03/2024

Analyst providing support of budgeting, forecasting, ad-hoc projects for executives, financial results, analysis of the business, annual budgeting.

Daily revenue reporting and revenue forecasting for twenty-four companies.

Complete month-end duties: Coordinate and consolidate collection of revenue, insurance, HR data from various systems and format for the monthly reporting deck to Executive Leadership.

Collaborate with IT in the development of a Data Warehouse and provide validation of data.

Annual Budgeting for all companies: preparation, consolidation, and reporting.

Optimization and process improvement

Identify data sources within the 2 ERP systems and provide guidance to IT for development of tables and views within the SQL Server data warehouse.

Collaborated with IT to develop views within the data warehouse to automate the data retrieval of daily revenue at the Work Order level by location.

Modernize reporting by updating Excel formulas and Power Queries to the data warehouse.

PROJECT CONTROL TEAM LEAD, Udelhoven Oilfield System Services Inc. Anchorage, AK 07/2011 – 05/2013

Lead Project controls team of Cost Engineer and Project Scheduler in reporting project status of pipeline program exceeding $231MM for ConocoPhillips Capital Projects Organization.

Coordinated project cost and scheduling personnel for weekly Project Management status updates, monthly Work in Place estimates, forecast to complete reporting, schedule risk and impact to performance.

Collaborated with Engineering and Construction firms on applicable cost reporting requirements.

Optimization and Process Improvement

Collaborated with another Project Control Lead to develop and document procedure for validating contractor definitive estimates to project control estimate.

PROJECT CONTROLS COST ENGINEER, Udelhoven Oilfield System Services Inc. Anchorage, AK 08/2007 – 07/2011

Cost Analyst for ConocoPhillips Capital Projects Organization

Provided cost control for Pipeline Integrity Program projects with budget exceeding $150MM.

Developed monthly project Value of Work Done - VOWD and accrual submittals.

Generated latest estimate/monthly forecasts considering project change requests, current progress, outstanding deliverables (labor and materials), and schedule to complete. (Value of Work Done - VOWD, Estimate to Complete - ETC, Estimated Forecast Costs - EFC).

Prepared project funding documents and generated appropriations requests.

Optimization and Process Improvement

Developed Macro to format cost information exported from SAP used by all Cost Engineers.

Automated project cost information updates by linking directly to database. Saved approximately 1 hour of manually updating Excel daily.

EDUCATION

BBA MANAGEMENT, University of Alaska Anchorage

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