Crude Volumes Accountant

Oxy•Houston, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Oxy produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Oxy primarily operates in the United States, Middle East and North Africa. Oxy strives to attract and retain talented employees by investing in their professional development and providing rewarding opportunities for personal growth. Our goal is to meet the highest employer standards by ensuring the health and safety of our employees, protecting the environment and positively impacting our communities where we do business. We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the position of Crude Volumes Accountant based in Houston, TX. Reporting to the Crude Marketing Accounting Supervisor, the Crude Volumes Accountant is responsible for actualizing and tracking crude oil volumes received from our production company and/or 3rd party customers, transported to market, placed in storage, and delivered to market.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or minimum of 21 hours of accounting with a business degree.
Energy Marketing industry experience (3+ years, minimum of 2 years in Crude Oil).
Some market knowledge of oil lease.
Experience working in a trading system, Horizon experience a plus.
Ability to communicate in a professional manner and establish effective working relationships with internal operations and external customers.
Collaborative spirit who displays a willingness to help others.
Capacity to maintain an optimistic and positive attitude.
Motivated, self-directed, and results-driven approach to work, also takes ownership of assigned tasks.
Ability to research and prepare analysis to respond to internal and external inquiries in a timely, professional, and thorough manner.
Creative thinker who can identify processes for continuous process improvement opportunities.
Ability to anticipate issues and how they impact the team or other stakeholders, and act on them in advance.
Ability to learn quickly and adapt and manage multiple priorities in a rapidly changing dynamic environment.
Employ fundamental accounting skills: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and account reconciliations.
Strong working proficiency and knowledge in Excel, i.e., mining/manipulating data.
Initiative to consistently meet internal and external deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of crude pipelines, lease actualization, and settlement.
Accounting experience in Energy Supply & Marketing.
Ability to read tariffs, pipeline statements, and contracts

Responsibilities

Regularly collaborate with a team of volume accountants to perform monthly volumetric allocations by analyzing lease, trucking, pipeline statements, and other transporter reports.
Reconcile transportation invoices to trading system, resolving discrepancies timely to process payment.
Reconcile actualized volumes per our trading system with our revenue accounting group for equity and 3rd party purchases and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
Accountable for contributing to monthly close.
Assist in customer disputes (pricing/volume).
Create, enhance, and maintain data for audit (Excel and Software based).
Collaborate with project team, product control, revenue accounting, and Operations to improve processes and provide reliable analysis.
Provide support and assistance to the settlements team, lease operations, and revenue accounting to research and resolve prior period volumetric discrepancies.
Analyze trading activity and explain variances between current month, prior month, and forecasts.
Reconciliation of general ledger accounts for inventory and related costs.
Review and record monthly journal entries to the general ledger for commodity transportation and fees for accruals and actualized activity.
Assist in testing and analysis for new trade system implementation and upgrades (Horizon and SAP ).
Gather supporting documents and provide explanations for audit requests for consolidated and stand-alone financial statements (as applicable).
Document and update desk procedures for assigned tasks.