Job Title: Finance Assistant/ AP Clerk

Location: Houston, TX

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 our trusted client that is looking for a Finance Assistant/ AP Clerk. This is a remarkable opportunity to grow your career and have an impact on the organization!

Job Duties & Responsibilities

The overall responsibility is to support and guide to the project teams in the commercial and financial aspects of the project.

• Ensure all bills are prepared and compile client invoices
• Work closely with Project Accountant
• Ensure timely and accurate invoicing of all projects and invoices
• Check all the information to support an invoice is available in a timely manner
• Ensure month end data is available for compilation of monthly accounts
• Summarize timesheet information for billing purposes
• Assist with compliance and coding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
• Proactive self-starter, effective communication skills, problem-solver, and excellent at meeting/exceeding deadlines
• Previous AP Experience with International experience a plus
• Experience with SAP/ Oracle 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.

Job Title: Accounting Manager

Location: Houston, TX

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 our trusted client that is looking for an Accounting Manager. This is a remarkable opportunity to run a team and have an impact on the organization!

Job Duties & Responsibilities

The overall responsibility is to support and guide to the project teams in the commercial and financial aspects of the project.

• Understand the commercial terms and administration requirements for the contract to support delivery teams in managing and mitigating risks associated with contract delivery
• Proactively provide advice and support to the Project Teams regarding the contractual and commercial aspects of the contracts
• Collate all relevant start-up information for jobs/phases and instigate contract set up as appropriate
• Ensure all contract documentation is managed via the contract database and that access rights to the database are maintained for the project
• Act as the commercial focal point for Client Commercial contact and attend Client meetings as required
• Preparation of Client monthly reports including but not limited to value of works, forecast of spend, commitments, annual budgets, business plans and contract incentive schemes
• Monitor the on-going financial performance of each job by preparing monthly management accounts, forecasts and budgets and ensure all commercial and financial reporting deadlines are met
• Support the Projects Team by providing ongoing and regular commercial analysis and information regarding expenditures, commitments, forecasts and the financial performance of the contract
• Ensure that internal cost reporting for the contract meets with corporate accounting and Commercial department requirements and that ongoing analysis is being made to track recovery against costs and highlight and resolve any associated issues in a timely manner
• Monitor and provide feedback relative to KPI performance and highlight areas where improvement is necessary to optimise financial return.
• Check accuracy of Third Party Invoices against subcontract agreements and approve same as compliance checker where required
• Identify where AFE amendments may be required to cover contract changes and provide support in their drafting and submission
• Ensure all activities across the project are undertaken in line with client approval process (AFEs) and Petrofac DOA prior to commencement
• Liaise with the team to assist in preparation and review of invoices to ensure they presented to the Client correctly and in a timely manner such that they are paid in line with contract terms and ensure approval by project management is obtained
• Monitor outstanding debtors and ensure that any commercial problems are addressed, and that cash collection is optimised supporting the delivery teams
• Provision of commercial support in the preparation of tenders and new business proposals
• Ensure contract commercial reviews are in place and ensure that specific commercial issues, risks and opportunities requiring management are understood and communicated
• Ownership of contract commercial structure such as sell rates for on and offshore personnel are updated as required and prepare the rates for the annual rate review process and for purposes of contract variations
• Ensure recovery for all indirect costs across the business is managed through rates or commercial structures. IT, Software, PPE, Mob/demob etc.
• Identify ongoing opportunities for revenue growth and cost minimisation such that contract margins are enhanced
• Ensure Labour and 3rd party reconciliations are done on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Perform all tasks and prepare all information in accordance with the company's policies, processes and procedures
• Develop reporting capabilities and structure utilising new systems (incl Power BI) and features to improve data and appearance and support consistency across the business and function
• Develop and manage the capture of On and Offshore time including reporting
• Deliver contract and commercial audit programmes as agreed with the business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• Experience with budgeting, re-forecasting, cost-reporting and monthly accounts, and IFRS
• Proactive self-starter, effective communication skills, and highly analytical personality type
• 5-8 years' Accounting experience
• Leadership/mentorship experience required
• Experience with SAP/ Oracle 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.

Summary
Provides oversight for all aspects of Electrical Systems Integrity which spans managing HV substations, field electrical power distribution, facility low voltage systems to PLC controls. Good all round electrical systems knowledge across a wide variety of equipment.

Responsibilities

• To be the Responsible Person Electrical (RPE) for the field operation ensuring electrical safety standards are followed and quality of electrical installations to NEC (National Electrical Code) requirements.
• Managing high voltage switching operations at the two Surge operated substations and powerline infrastructure as well as periodically optimizing the voltage regulation at the stations.
• Manage the maintenance program for the substations and inspection and repair of the powerline infrastructure.
• Manages the data and logic integrity in all control systems to ensure they are consistent and function as designed.
• Ensures safety system cause & effect charts are up to date and that they are validated in accordance with policy.
• Coordinates the effort to update cygnet from the field end as facilities upgrades and well tie-backs are made and ensures data integrity.
• Conduct electrical authorization of field personnel to work at appropriate voltage levels on systems (from low voltage DC controls up to high voltage).
• Maintains Surge arc flash program and manages the integrity of all test equipment.
• Carries out various electrical system diagnostic measurements to determine the health and performance of electrical and electronic systems.
• Maintain quality of the electrical systems equipment in the CMMS (Computerized maintenance management system) from PLC's to HV circuit breakers.
• Coordinating field corrective maintenance tasks through the CMMS work order system for area of responsibility.
• Work closely with the Corrective and Preventive Maintenance work teams as well as the Construction team on equipment related issues.
• Work closely with the Production Optimization team to coordinate activities that involves electrical power delivery.
• Work closely with the Land team on any new powerline extensions for the appropriate right of way needs.
• Work closely with the Houston Engineering team as well as the SCADA coordinator

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong safety culture and process leadership particularly with respect to electrical systems.
• Ability to read and understand electrical and controls documents and design drawings.
• Familiar with 3 phase LV and HV power systems operation and installations.
• Understand control schemes and ability to learn new systems and equipment.

Qualifications

• Position is based in Moss Creek field office (~ 17 miles north of Big Spring, Texas).
• Associate's degree or bachelor's degree required; Electrical Engineer preferred.
• Must be willing to work outside of core hours and handle call-outs.
• 10 years' experience with electrical systems, including substation operation, LV electrical systems and controls.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience across a wide range of electrical systems and voltage levels. No barriers on working on a wide variety of electrical equipment and systems.

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 Responsibilities:

• Monitoring project milestones and ensuring that they are met by communicating with project managers
• Reviewing cost reports to ensure expenses are within budget guidelines
• Analyzing project schedules to identify delays or problems that may occur in the future
• Reviewing reports from key team members to ensure that they contain accurate information about project status
• Recommending changes to project objectives or strategies to improve performance
• Coordinating with clients or customers to identify and resolve any issues that may arise during the project
• Analyzing the financial status of projects to identify areas where costs could be reduced or where additional funding may be required
• Preparing reports detailing project status and providing recommendations for improvement
• Coordinating meetings with stakeholders to discuss project status or changes that may be required
• Ability to manage technology assets and IT solutions to provide highly innovative and cutting-edge reports, graphics, presentations and dashboard solutions

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred and 4-6 years of relevant experience.
• Able to work under pressure, producing high quality deliverables while meeting delivery dates
• Previous experience leading and controlling projects and project teams both locally and remote is desired.

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 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)
• 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.