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                                                 Career Objective                                                       

 

Results-driven, solutions-focused and goal-oriented professional, with exceptional leadership skills and an extensive background in all facets of Private- and Public-sector Financial Management, desiring a challenging and rewarding Executive-Level role within a successful and growth-oriented organization.

 

                                                         Profile                                                               

 

Ø  Offer over 22 years of outstanding Auditing and Accounting experience within varying capacities, including competencies in Project Management, Financial Analysis, Consolidated Finances, Audit Management, Operational Budgeting, Off-Balance Sheet Projections, Accounting-based Team Building, and Cost Management.

Ø  Adept at preparing consolidated financial statements and annual reports in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and to facilitate successful financial and compliance audits, as well as regulate legislatively-required governmental payments.

Ø  Skillful in the calculation of overhead allocation procedures, operations budgeting, and the associated examinations that bridge communications between financial and operations professionals.

Ø  Demonstrate outstanding administrative and organizational skills along with the capability to successfully perform independently or within a team-based environment to meet and/or exceed all operational goals and objectives.

 

                                           Professional Experience                                                

 

Harris County Auditor, Houston, TX

Audit Manager                                                                                                                       2007 C Present

Ø  Oversee all audit plan completion, engagements coordination and facilitation, auditing team(s) management, client relations establishment and maintenance, and Auditor Reports preparation and issuance.

Ø  Managed all engagement planning, auditing objectives development, and auditing risk assessments, while scheduling arrangements, determining various necessary resources, ensuring auditing resources are efficiently and effectively utilized, and establishing timelines for completion within allocated budget hours.

Ø  Effectively communicate results to audtiees and proactively and efficiently developed action plans to resolve any necessary issues.

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

   Successfully supervise 7 auditors (2 supervisors, 2 seniors, and 3 staff members), along with directing multiple engagements and reviewing performed work to ensure that it is in compliance with policies and procedures as well as the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.

 

Quanex Corporation, Houston, TX

Audit Manager                                                                                                                            2006 C 2007

Ø  Maintained responsibility for assisting the Director of a nationwide manufacturer of building product and specialty vehicle steel with the training and development of staff within a newly formed auditing department.

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

   Successfully installed and implemented Teammate Software (Automated Audit Workpapers) and trained staff and executive-level management on Workpaper creation and review processes, as well as assisting in the completion of SOX 404 testing by the year s end.

   Concurrently worked with the IT department to effectively set up a centralized repository for exception processing and tracking.

 

Comfort Systems U.S.A., Houston, TX

Audit Manager                                                                                                                             2004 C 2006

Ø  Completed documentation of Sarbanes-Oxley 404 control processes and activities for 45 company locations nationwide, while concurrently expanding internal audit scope to include more operational testing and data analysis.

Ø  Proactively assisted the Vice-President of Internal Controls in effectively developing an automated risk analysis tool which was used to compare relative risks associated with each location based on various key matrices.

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

   Created a streamlined in-house automated audit testing spreadsheet which allowed all audits performed thereafter to become paperless.

   Successfully developed an automated process which effectively analyzed monthly percentages of completed data compiled from all locations while observing trends and anomalies between companies, regions, sizes of businesses, etc.

   Investigated and closed out two major fraud investigations.

 

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Internal Auditing, Houston, TX

Contract Engagements                                                                                                                           2004

Ø  Prepared Sarbanes-Oxley 404 documentation and recommendations for a multi-national construction firm and a worldwide oilfield product and service corporation, respectively.

Ø  Carefully and efficiently analyzed business processes while focusing on areas of high risk, determining key control objectives, and documenting business unit-based control activities.

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

   Successfully made recommendations on areas noted as having significant weaknesses in order to enhance overall operational efficiency and business-related profitability.

 

Kerr-McGhee Corporation, Houston, TX / Oklahoma City, OK

Senior Staff Accountant I                                                                                                             2001 C 2003

Ø  Effectively provided operations, executive-level management, and financial institutions of a Fortune 500 company with accurate and timely accounting information pertinent to monthly activities while safeguarding the off-balance sheet status of projects to protect the financial stability of corporate-based oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, and the North Sea, as well as chemical plants in Mississippi, Georgia, Australia, and Germany.

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

   Managed off-balance sheet statuses for financial statements within a five-year period through the careful tracking of expenditures to ensure the prevention of excessive bank funding and force restatement of $900 million.

   Successfully communicated financial issues to operations personnel, including arranging for amended OBO JOA s, saving the company $3 million annually in overhead charges.

   Optimally negotiated an insurance settlement with a $500,000 deductible from an incident where the insurer was requiring a $2.5-million co-payment.

   Reconciled charges paid and billed to cumulative amounts which were funded, as well as pursued significant fluctuations from budgetary- to operations-based capacities, including discovering a $9-million charge error which would have forced cost overruns.

 

Staff Internal Auditor / Senior Internal Auditor                                                                             1996 C 2001

Ø  Led financial and operational audits within the Oil and Gas and Chemical fields, including directing compliance audits within the Safety and Environmental Affairs Division, contactor audits for company subcontractors, and joint venture audits for company interests outside of Oil and Gas operations.

Ø  Proactively assisted with financial audits, prepared annual reports with outside accounting firms, supported annual audit schedules, budget processing, and staffing audits, and developed optimal audit programs based upon specific risk analysis and auditee concerns.

Ø  Accurately reviewed business-related paperwork to ensure sufficient documentation to support audit findings before submitting reports to executive-level management.

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

   Recovered $10 million in refunds between 1997 and 2000 from various subcontractors during audits, after the development of Access Database utilities which efficiently tested 100% of contractor-based charges.

   Profitably worked with Chemical Operations at various international locations to ensure compliance with corporate-based policies and procedures and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

   Instituted productive internal controls within the Oracle Oil and Gas Revenue and Production, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Projects, and the General Ledger systems that singled out processing or data errors and flagged potential employee fraud.

 

~ Additional Experience ~

 

Kerr-McGhee Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK

Senior Accountant                                                                                                                       1992 C 1996

Associate Accountant                                                                                                                  1988 C 1992

Clerk II                                                                                                                                         1986 C 1988

 

                   Education, Certification, and Professional Memberships                         

 

B.S., Criminal Justice                                                                                           Oklahoma City University

Extensive Accounting / Business Coursework   University of Oklahoma / University of Central Oklahoma

 

Certified Internal Auditor                                                                              Institute of Internal Auditors

 

Oklahoma City Chapter Secretary, 1998                                                        Institute of Internal Auditors

Oklahoma City Chapter First Vice President, 1999                                        Institute of Internal Auditors