Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Understand the needs of the Operational Accounting functions and how the Accounting Advisory team supports those needs while also representing the requirements of Accounting Advisory to the business
• Assist in the envisioning, design, and delivery of accounting policies and procedures that generate value in terms of risk reduction, regulatory compliance, automation, efficiency by exploiting best in practice accounting policies.
• Use current technology to help modernize accounting operations to improve reliability, increase operational efficiency, and reduce cost.
• Translate project documents, including reports and project specific business rules into functional specification documents for development by internal or external resources.
• Support end-users and super-users with training where required regarding SAP.
• Provide other ad-hoc support and assistance, as requested
• Support accounting implementation of new assets during acquisitions.
• Assisting in the evaluation of accounting processes and controls, with an objective of increasing efficiencies and providing better information for management decision making.
• Working with accounting teams to optimize and implement new accounting standards and company best practices.
• Communicate with IT, SAP Functional Support, and Management on the status of projects and escalate requests on behalf of the Accounting Advisory team as needed
• Assist in preparing status updates for Management
• Assists in SAP FICO system enhancement projects, upgrade projects, and implementations

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems
• Ensures commitments to business stakeholders are met, solicits opinions and ideas from Finance, Accounting and Land departments, and responds to inquiries
• Adheres to the company’s values – integrity, ownership, urgency, alignment, and innovation.
• Supports company vision and mission.
• Adheres to established work schedule, attendance standards and is punctual to work and meetings.
• Maintains employee confidence and protects company assets, including intellectual property, by keeping information confidential.
• Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional associations.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• Five (5) years minimum experience in Upstream Oil and Gas Accounting (and/or related fields) including technical accounting, business analysis or relative accounting functions.
• Five (5) years minimum experience in a accounting support role - General Ledger (GL), Joint Venture Accounting, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Cost and Profit Center Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Production Accounting
• Experience with support and training of end-users
• Ability to complete multiple, diverse tasks of differing priorities without supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year university or college with a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field of study.