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SAP/PRA Financial IT Specialist (Dallas Only) Accounting / Finance Resume


 
Resume of Candidate 337006.  Proven functional professional whose expertise includes two full lifecycle SAP/PRA implementations and six years of large-scale implementation experience.  In addition, candidate also has consulting experience and have provided PRA support as a Functional IT Specialist for two major oil companies.
                                   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM : 11/2005 – 02/2008                                                         
  • Gathered complete and meaningful explanations of complex problems researched for presentation to PROFOG or clients upon request
  • Evaluated PRA/OSS Notes for proper installation
  • Developed and provided functional support for the Texas P1/P2, New Mexico C115, Colorado Form 7, and Wyoming Form 2 production reports
  • Made configuration changes and saved transports with proper attributes releasing changes to the proper environment
  • Analyzed/trouble-shoot SAP/PRA transactions which included tax and regulatory, production, and tax calculation issues for Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana
  • Implemented automated SAP/PRA Texas severance tax reports and regulatory reports
  • Worked assigned PRA Clarify cases meeting Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements, including response time to clients and resolution of cases and work requests for clients
  • Tested PRA AOPs
Hunt Oil :  3/2000- 12/2000;
Cortez Oil and Gas :  1/2001 – 1/2002;
Wynn Crosby :  12/2002 – 1/2005;
Tesoro :  2/2005 - 10/2005                                                                                                                                                          
 
Independent Consultant/Revenue Accountant  
• Facilitated both the conversion and recording of revenue into Questa
• Created and revised master files; recorded revenue and expenses; managed revenue distribution
• Reported, paid, and reconciled royalties for multiple payers for MMS and BIA
• Recorded and reconciled all net pay royalties for multiple purchasers and desk codes, with each  month averaging revenues booked at $1.5 mm (utilized Artesia software)
• Interpreted and complied with all regulations and as they pertain to state and federal royalty/taxes
• Addressed and delivered special project(s) resulting in $1 mm recoupment
• Analyzed/trouble-shoot SAP/PRA transactions
• Implemented automated SAP/PRA Texas severance tax report
• Engineered severance tax and royalty reporting data clean-up (SAP/PRA) 
 
 
MOBIL BUSINESS RESOURCES CORPORATION, DALLAS, TEXAS                             
09/1997-02/2000
   
Oil & Gas Senior Accountant/Business Analyst for SAP Conversion Project
  • Gathered data to record monthly revenues of $2MM for both offshore and domestic properties
  • Implemented, converted, and installed a new revenue system, PREMAS/PRA. Helped build and test SAP interface between PREMAS/PRA and SAP FI/CO system.
  • Assumed leadership during transition to a new system and provided support and expertise both in Revenue Accounting as well as severance tax paying/reporting for Texas and Oklahoma
  • Recorded journal entries and reconciled both accounts payable and accounts receivable
  • Ensured calculations/payments of oil and gas revenues was made both timely and accurately for both operated and non-operated properties
  • Resolved interest owners inquiries for related properties
  • Worked as team lead for revenue group
 
TST/IMPRESSO, COPPELL, TEXAS                                                                             
11/1994-08/1997
   
Payroll Administrator
  • Produced and managed payroll for three plants, 154 employees
  • Directed, tested, and implemented new payroll system, ABRA for Windows which improved productivity
  • Organized and prepared all state and federal returns as they pertain to payroll processing
            
ORYX ENERGY COMPANY, DALLAS, TEXAS                                                               
10/1989-10/1994
 
     Oil & Gas Revenue Staff Accountant/Business Analyst
  • Team lead for PREMAS implementation of Tax and Reg. module – implementation, conversion, and testing for seventeen states which had to be in compliance
  • Implemented and installed automated revenue, production and marketing accounting system (PREMAS) that also identified and defined problems existing in the prior system.  This was PREMAS’ first implementation of its mainframe software.
  • Planned and interpreted special projects to resolve audit issues and outstanding accounts receivable and payable balances, which accomplished an $8MM refund to Oryx for overpaid federal (windfall profits) taxes 
  • Recorded revenue and expenses on both operated and non-operated properties
  • Analyzed and monitored closing entries, making corrections and/or journal entries
  • Reconciled both accounts payable and accounts receivable
  • Communicated and worked closely with Tax Department and Land Manager
 
    Tax Compliance Accountant
  • Assisted and provided guidance as supervisor to six accountants in the monitoring of severance tax transactions for compliance with severance tax regulations in 17 states                 
  • Reconciled/recovered $3MM in an eight month ad valorem tax project
  • Summarized and controlled the monitoring of severance tax payable accounts and eighteen additional general ledger accounts
  • Filed state production reports, i.e., P1’s.  Filed severance tax reports and related GLO/royalty reports
  • Recorded revenue and production for both operated and non-operated properties
  • Produced journal entries
  • Paid severance taxes for Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, Michigan, and Colorado
 
 SKILL SET
 
COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING:
  • Implemented automated accounting systems, PREMAS/PRA, (production, revenue, accounting, tax and regulatory, and marketing modules) 
  • Analyzed monthly closing reports to ensure the accuracy of detailed expense and accrual entries     
  • Updated and controlled master files utilized for general ledger postings
  • Produced and gathered data for automated tax reports
  • Performed all maintenance and configuration of the tax/regulatory reporting module
 
TAX PREPARATION:
  • Deposited and transferred federal excise taxes ($180MM/per month) and reconciled related accounts
  • Reported and deposited severance taxes for multiple states
  • Composed state and federal audit letters
  • Interpreted regulatory changes and communicated such changes to management
  • Filed/paid production, severance (TX., LA., CO, MI, & NM) and federal (MMS & BIA) reports
 
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:
  • Analyzed general ledger balances and gathered data to produce account reconciliation’s
  • Corresponded with regulatory agencies on audit and reporting issues and coordinated with revenue accountants on regulatory related accounting procedures
  • Analyzed and reconciled payables
  • Prepared regulatory filings and payments. 
  • Recorded revenue and expenses.
 
COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:
 
PREMAS/ SAP PRA, Artesia, AS/400, TSO (retrieval system), Wolfpack, Ogsys, Easytrieve, Focus, SQL/QMF, Questa,  Excel, WordPerfect, Word, Microsoft Outlook, Excalibur
 
B.A. SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, PHI BETA KAPPA, SUMMA CUM LAUDE
          
 
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