Area Finance Lead

To bring value to the organisation by sharing my expertise to develop robust processes and systems, effective cost controls and delivery of financial results

July 2007 to August 2010 Area Finance Lead

• Advise Finance Manager on accounting policy and procedures
• Cost control and monitoring of projects.
• Advising engineers/accountants on proactively managing costs (actual and forecast).
• Liaising with all relevant parties – contractors, accountants, to ensure all costs are captured and booked
• Assessing commerciality of new projects
• Financial reporting and management information
• Long Term Planning
• Performance Management
• Training and mentoring of junior staff


August 2005 – May 2007 Performance Unit Controller

Responsible for
• Compliance with the Group and external accounting standards
• Timely, comprehensively researched and accurate submissions of business forecasts, related Management Information and other performance related materials.
• Ensuring risks to delivery are well understood and shared across the Business, with particular emphasis on capital expenditure pressures and opportunities and assurance on reserves reporting.
• Delivery and assurance of BP’s Control and Finance policies. Resolution of all financial and control issues
• Full ownership of actuals and forecasts by delivery teams and Performance Unit Leader
• Delivery of accurate quarterly and annual accounts.
• Ensuring an effective system of financial control. Acting as a control focal point for the business including the interface with other subsidiaries.
• Providing assurance and an independent view to the management team that financial control and accounting, credit, risk management and fraud control policies are consistent with Group Management Framework and Functional Standards.

Jan 2003 to July 2005 Well Cost Analyst

• Work with a team of consultants to implement a drilling cost management process to ensure delivery of +/- 3% between actual vs budgeted costs.
• Work with engineers to develop budgeted well costs using process stated above.
• Pro-actively manage and review well costs on a daily basis and provide engineers with feedback on actual costs and variances.
• Interact with service providers to facilitate timely submission of invoices and statements
• Develop weekly and monthly status reports. Set up meetings to review and to determine way forward.
• Reconcile costs timely and efficiently within 90days of well completion

Postgraduate: MBA in Finance (Distinction) - University of Oxford Brookes - London

Tertiary: BSc Industrial Management – University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

Secondary: St Francois Girl’s College (‘O’ and ‘A’ Levels)

Miscellaneous Courses: Project Management, Internal Control, Leadership skills, Performance Management, Economic Evaluation of Projects, Health Safety Security and the Environment (HSSE) plus other

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Word; Microsoft Project; Microsoft Access; PowerPoint

A dynamic motivated professional with over 25 years experience in Accounting/ Finance in the Oil and Gas Industry, who is detail-oriented, thorough, efficient and organized and whose achievements include:

• extensive experience in cost control both as an individual contributor and at a managerial level
• extensive experience in all accounting functional areas such as payroll, revenue, fixed assets, taxation, general accounting inclusive of invoice payments
• evaluation of projects for commerciality
• problem solving and strong analytical skills, with the ability to make well thought out decisions.
• excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• resourcefulness in the completion of projects, effective at multi-tasking