Job Title: Accountant

Location: DeSoto, TX (Dallas County)

Type of Role: Direct Hire/ Permanent

Full benefits provided including medical/dental/vision insurance 401K match

Overview

Petroplan has been a trusted, global talent solutions partner for nearly fifty years, specializing in supporting projects and connecting talented professionals in the Energy Industry.

We have partnered with a trusted client that is looking for an Accountant. This opportunity will be perfect for someone earlier in their career that is self-motivated and willing to learn.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

The overall responsibility is to assist the organization in basic accounting needs.

Responsibilities include:

• AP/AR processing
• Purchase requestions
• Receiving into accounting system
• Manufacture Order (MO) Processing/Reconciliation
• General Ledger
• Month End Inventory (Count/Reconciliation)
• Production/manufacture experience isn't a must but would be nice to have
• General ledger

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• Proactive self-starter, can-do attitude
• Basic accounting knowledge
• Experience with inventory management, manufacturing, materials handling, and AP/AR
• (Ideally) 2-3 years experience (this is an early-career position ideal for someone wanting to spread their wings and jumpstart their career)

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

Job Title: Director of FP&A

Location: Humble area (3 days in office 2 days remote)

Type of Role: Direct Hire/ Permanent

Full benefits provided including medical/dental/vision insurance 401K match

Overview

Petroplan has been a trusted, global talent solutions partner for nearly fifty years, specializing in supporting projects and connecting talented professionals in the Energy Industry.

We have partnered with an oil and gas company that is looking for a Director of FP&A.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

The overall responsibility is leading and managing all forms of Global Consolidated Forecasts (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow) on a monthly, quarterly and Annual basis as well as for developing and enhancing the strategic finance capability of the Company.

• Maintain all financial forecasts (including rolling quarterly forecasts), manage the consolidation process with accounting team, and provide analytical comments in periodic management report as well as providing constructive directions to the regions to improve financial performance and company valuation.
• Coordinate budgeting and forecasting efforts and design budget and forecast structure (jurisdiction, region, cost center, department; top-down, bottom-up)
• Prepare presentations and reports for key stakeholders (senior management, board, banks, etc.)
• Develop effective reporting tools for both local jurisdiction and consolidation level to help management understand business performance
• Investigate and make recommendations on additional tools or software to help improve the reporting process and implement in collaboration with the accounting team and IT as necessary
• Build relationships with the business and drive through process change as necessary to help improve financial transparency
• * Assist management team on ad hoc projects with analytical support to support business decisions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required, CPA preferred
• Proactive self-starter, effective communication skills, and highly analytical personality type
• (Ideally) 10 years' experience in a senior Treasury role with a Company with international operations
• Advanced Excel and model building experience / exposure
• Experience with Oracle a plus
• Project Management experience (this role will project management a number of strategic initiatives that move the needle on WIS's financial performance)

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

This is a great opportunity to join one of the largest integrated energy and commodity trading companies in the world.

We are looking for a hands-on technologist with experience in Risk development projects and exposure to the Commodities industry. Working on solutions for trading and risk users, you should have knowledge of market data and an understanding of its use in modelling and pricing for risk metrics and reporting. You must be passionate about technology and have experience developing Java-based, enterprise-wide solutions.

The successful candidate will be adept at partnering with end-users to elicit requirements, analyse problems, design solutions and lead teams to deliver tangible business value & benefit.

This role will report into the Head of Risk Technology working on a multi-year program of work developing a brand new greenfield risk platform, ensuring they meet architectural and engineering best practices and guidelines.

Collaborating with your peers, you will liaise closely with technologists across the global teams as well as our key business stakeholders, which includes the Global Head of Strategies and the Chief Risk Officer, to ensure solutions integrate into our landscape seamlessly.

You should have a delivery focused background in Agile environment, and a desire to identify and develop strategic solutions, whilst also constantly looking to challenge status-quo to bring your own ideas and strive for improvement.

Key responsibilities

• Hands on development role
• Work closely with business users to understand processes and capture requirements
• Actively seek to identify and drive improvements and innovation
• Acquiring business knowledge and system knowledge to further individual development
• Represent and promote the company's IT, both internally and externally

Technical expertise

• Experience developing enterprise applications
• Strong core Java knowledge and development expertise
• Commodities or Financial Services background
• Risk knowledge including understanding of forward curves, volatility surfaces, pricing and risk metrics
• Service oriented technologies like REST, JSON, Protobuf, Spring Boot, Drop Wizard
• DevOps best practices using tools like JIRA, JUnit, GitLab, Artifactory, Docker, Kubernetes, Kibana, Prometheus
• Cloud - either AWS or Azure exposure and understanding of how it can be utilised in a hybrid environment
• SQL and relational database experience
• Web development using modern frameworks like ReactJS desirable

Non-technical Skills

• Agile methodology for delivering projects
• Fluent English
• Good communication and organisational skills
• Analytical and critical thinking with ability to problem solve complex issues
• Passion for technology and innovation
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

This is a great opportunity to join one of the largest integrated energy and commodity trading companies in the world.

We are looking for a hands-on IT Developer with experience in the Power & Gas Commodity markets of North America. You will work on full stack applications to support Front Office Trading across commodities and must be passionate about technology with experience developing enterprise-wide solutions.

You will need to partner with end-users to understand process, requirements and analyze problems to design solutions and ultimately deliver tangible business value & benefit.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for development and operations of Front Office applications, data warehouse hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Deliver technical solutions to evolve our trading platforms and solve business problems. This involves requirements gathering, identifying priorities, planning tasks and on-time delivery of solutions.
• Work with our internal staff and 3rd party IT consulting teams situated across the geographical locations to ensure solutions meets requirements and delivery projects on time.
• Lead operational excellence evolution: monitoring, alerting, predictive operations.
• Interact closely with global development teams on organization technology needs.

Skill and Experience

• BS or MS in Computer Science or relevant experience.
• 8-10 years' experience developing enterprise applications.
• Power & Gas Commodities background is a plus.
• Strong Python, Dash knowledge and development expertise.
• Strong UI development.
• AWS experience - RDS, Lambda, EC2, S3, VPC, SageMaker, ECR, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Athena, API Gateway, SQS, SNS.
• SQL/PLSQL and relational database experience - SQL Server, Snowflake MySQL, PostgresSQL.
• Building RESTful APIs, JSON.
• DevOps best practices using tools like GitLab, CI/CD, Docker and Kubernetes.
• iOS development is a plus.
• Linux/unix skills is a plus.ss
• Strong ability to lead and deliver projects to successful completion.
• Excellent context switcher and ability to multi-task.
• Excellent organizational, oral and written communication skills.
• Analytical and critical thinking with ability to problem solve complex issues
• Proven ability to rapidly solve business problems via lean/agile solution delivery methods.
• Highly motivated self-starter able to meet deadlines with limited supervision.
• Capacity to work within a team.
• Excellent customer services skills including positive attitude.
• Proven ability to work with development teams to deliver modern solutions
• Ability to travel to support solution delivery

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

An exciting opportunity exists to join Mercuria's Technology Team as an Endur Business Analyst. The successful candidate will be working as part of the Trading Development Technology team. As an OpenLink Endur Business Analyst the candidate will work with the development team and business to configure Endur to support ongoing business requirements and implement Endur solutions that integrates with internal systems.

Responsibilities

• Working with Commodities Trading business and technology to implement new business requirements in Endur integrating with internal Mercuria systems as required.
• Working with business teams to streamline and automate processes across Endur and internal systems.
• Supporting commodity trading business in Endur helping to troubleshoot issues and implement resolutions.
• As part of the global technology team, work with counterparts in other regions to define and align Endur practices and processes globally.
• Strategically assess requirements understanding when it is appropriate to apply an Endur solution and when it is appropriate to apply alternative solutions.
• Analyze and document business requirements and manage implementations.

Skills/background

• 2 - 5 years working with and configuring Endur
• 2 - 5 years working in Commodities Trading industry including knowledge of North American Power and Gas trading products and trade life cycle
• Strong knowledge across breadth of OpenLink Endur system
• Experience defining and implementing Endur configuration changes to support new products and configure all related artefacts and processes
• Knowledge of Endur database model, SQL skills
• Experience with Endur V16 or higher is a plus

Competencies

• Strong academic record to degree level
• Fluent English
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

POSITION OVERVIEW: Lead the company's Corporate focused information technology business transformation process by fully leveraging established SDLC and project management methodology. Work directly with assigned business unit and clients, evaluate their needs, analyze the options and provide effective and resourceful business IT solutions.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Function as a key contributor to a software development team
• Ability to operate across various levels of the organization
• Proven ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments

• Possess excellent interpersonal and strong communication skills
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, exhibit strong listening and feedback skills
• Proven ability to thrive/be successful in a fast-paced corporate environment
• Track record of delivering on deadlines
• Excellent analytical skills and close attention to detail

• Ability to motivate and coach project team members including developers, other project managers/coordinators, miscellaneous IT staff, and management in SDLC
• Ability to quickly understand and explain complicated processes clearly
• Ability to quickly analyze and identify more efficient workflows/processes
• Ability to serve as a change agent in the organization

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner with the company's business units as well as internal teams to lead core program initiatives
• Responsible for negotiating scope and representing the company's IT to different business units and stakeholders
• Lead the identification of project or program purpose, scope, deliverables, benefits, priority, stakeholders, and success criteria
• During evaluation of scope, ensure project strategy is in place to align with overall program goals

• Collaborate with other PMs, business analysts, subject matter experts, and project sponsors to determine optimal solution options as it relates to project scope
• Lead stakeholders and other project team members to prioritize collected requirements
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of current solution and implementation approach
• Collect and report project status and metrics to the team manager as required
• Provide analysis of and make recommendations for improvement of project team processes

• Develop strategic communication plan and present status, risks, costs, and goals to stakeholders
• During solution identification provide business requirements, implementation costs, timing, and scope guidance
• Participate in managing the company's SDLC for solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized, are stable and scalable
• Coordinate and participate in the vetting of 3rd party vendors throughout the RFP/SOW process
• Help lead and direct 3rd party vendors in vended software implementation projects

• Recommend process improvements both in business processes and in the SDLC
• Perform other tasks as needed to deliver successful solutions
• Complete all required project management documentation
• Ensure staffing and training requirements are met to ensure a seamless turnover to services support team post-implementation
• Perform job duties with minimal supervision

• Mentor and make recommendations for improvement to less experienced team members
• Other duties assigned as needed

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, management information systems, engineering, math, business from an accredited university or equivalent experience and certifications
• 4 years of experience in the domains of IT Project Management, PMP, and enterprise system implementation experience preferred
• Experience in the integration and implementation of different technology platforms on a software development team
• Track record of successfully leading the implementation of different types of cross-functional projects on time and under budget

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to engage in repetitive motions, including movements of the hands, wrists, or fingers
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods

• Ability to speak, including expressing oneself or exchanging information with others
• Ability to hear, including perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction
• Ability to see and distinguish shapes with or without corrective eyewear
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound
• May be required to lift objects less than 25 pounds, occasionally

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

POSITION OVERVIEW: As an ETRM Operations Developer II for the company, the successful candidate will be responsible for technically analyzing, enhancing, supporting, and troubleshooting in-house developed solutions and data interfaces with the company's Enterprise Trade and Risk Management (ETRM) systems. The successful candidate will work both directly and indirectly with analysts, business personnel, and other ETRM Developers to evaluate needs, analyze options and provide effective and resourceful technical solutions.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop preventative customizations to the company's ETRM system. These will be modifications or enhancements to the company's ETRM system that prevent or handle specific future user-encountered or back-end process breaks.
• Troubleshoot, analyze, and otherwise identify and develop solutions to ETRM system issues escalated to the Operations Development team by ETRM Analysts or other ETRM personnel.
• Collaborate with teams in multiple geographic locations. Users are located in both Oklahoma City and Houston offices. Position may include occasional travel to remote offices.
• Exhibit a desire to continue growth of software skills, including new platforms and applications not previously used.
• Exhibit a strong customer service focus.
• Work with other team members in a rotating on-call support cycle.
• Effectively execute multiple assignments and projects with some oversight and according to defined quality and output standards.
• Exhibit understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.
• Identify resources, including other team members, business analysts, and subject matter experts, and procure their input to determine ETRM solution options.
• Solicit feedback on performance in new tasks.
• Work with ETRM Operations Development Supervisor to determine urgency and priority for tasks, escalate issues of exceptional nature.
• Discuss, share, and seek relevant information, opinions, and judgements to support ETRM system troubleshooting and problem solving.
• Take initiative to ensure ETRM project and issue resolution outcomes meet requirements.
• Perform other tasks as needed to deliver successful solutions and otherwise contribute to the overall stability of the company's ETRM system.

SKILLS:

• Strong verbal and oral communication skills, ability to interact with end users
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related field a plus
• 3 years of SQL Server (T-SQL) development
• 3 years of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (C# preferred)
• Experience with SSIS and SSRS a plus
• Experience with DevOps a plus

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.

The successful candidate is adept at partnering with end-users to log issues, analyse issues, provide tactical/strategical solutions and ultimately deliver tangible business value & benefit.
This role will report into the Head of Application Support - North America working on different business systems critical for the trading life cycle.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting of Commodity Trading and live position applications during trading hours.
• Support of CTRM and connected upstream/downstream applications for Intraday and End of day activities.
• Take appropriate actions to ensure that time-critical batch steps run. This may involve root cause analysis of issues and taking appropriate corrective actions (fixing curves, excluding deals/portfolios etc.).
• Monitor applications availability and report issues pro-actively.
• Communicate with clients/vendors as required: inform/follow-up for incident progress, notify them of impending changes or agreed outages
• Good organizational skills in managing issues, projects and communicating to the stake holders.
• Fast turnaround of client requests.
• Log and prioritize tickets in the ticketing system.
• Work with the Service Desk to ensure requests are routed to appropriate resource in order to be resolved quickly and efficiently
• Escalate service requests that require 3rd level support
• Improve client service, perception, and satisfaction.

Technical expertise

• 5 years of work experience in IT industry.
• Minimum 4 years of working experience in energy trading domain.
• Must have experience of working on trading floor and supporting traders during peak hours.
• Must have knowledge of OpenLink Endur system (North American Gas and Power)
• Working knowledge of Endur OpenJVS programming.
• Good experience with CTRM Application support including upstream/downstream systems. (E.g. Understands business workflow, trade life cycle and operations)
• Working knowledge of ISO power markets and FTR trade booking
• Must have business knowledge of North American Gas and Power trade life cycle.
• Programming skills using JAVA or .Net or any programming language.
• Diagnosis skills of technical issues related to programs in Java, .Net or any other programming language.
• Understanding of databases and analysing SQL scripts.
• Should be able to support team members in different geographical regions.
• Motivated and willing to learn and work on different systems 3rd party and in-house developed

Non-technical Skills

• Fluent in English
• Excellent communication skills to interact with various stakeholders both internal and external.
• Ability to work under intense pressure and manage/prioritize multiple requests/projects independently.
• Analytical and critical thinking with ability to problem solve complex issues
• Self-motivated, able to multitask and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work with geographically distributed team.
• Adapt to changes quickly and communicate effectively.

About Petroplan

Petroplan is the trusted, specialist global Talent Solutions partner of choice for employers and professionals in the Energy sector. Since 1976, Petroplan has been here to help people like you make the most of the opportunities available and find the best fit for you as an individual.

Over 10,000 placements in more than 55 countries for over 550 clients across 65 disciplines.

In an industry where skilled and experienced professionals are increasingly sought after resource, we appreciate the true value of what you have to offer. What's more, we understand that different things are important to different people in today's world of work - it's about making exactly the right connections for you as an individual.

Our reputation for contractor and candidate care, understanding what makes you tick, and finding you the best match is second-to-none. We understand the industry inside-out and seek to understand YOU and your motivations in the same way. We take the time to evaluate your individual strengths, understand the most important things to you, and establish exactly what you're looking for from your next role.