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Supervisor, Budget and Administration, The Williams Companies, (various projects)

START Date: 
September, 2010

Hired, supervised, trained, and mentored a team of four field office administrators.

Implemented Oracle Application for Operations and Tech Services Departments to ensure adherence of Williams Corporate and Midstream O&M and Capital procurement standards, procedures, and processes were adhered to in maintaining SOX compliant.  Provided ongoing training to field office administrators, project support and other personnel within LMM and ABA departments.

Prepared budgets and forecasts and made recommendation to management during the annual budget preparation and directed Laurel Mountain Midstream operations and maintenance (O&M) budget development, preparation, formulation, analysis, and execution in Williams's financial reporting system.

Monitor and analyze budgeting and accounting reports for maintaining expenditure controls, compiles data for LOS metric, Weekly Volume Reporting, Plant Balance Reports and other adhoc reports

Conduct monthly budget and forecast review meetings with operation manager, and area supervisors, prepared monthly variances, trending, detail transaction reports and forecast summaries.

Performed gap analyzes of Operations and Tech Services expenditures to determine accuracy and variance between budget and actual expenses for the extended forecast budgeting process

Examined budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations and Interpreted detailed cost accounting information and made recommendations regarding the efficient utilization of resources, budgets and the proper accounting for transactions to Operations & Tech Services management team.

Enter monthly Capital forecast information for Ops & Tech Service CAPEX Projects and Coordinated departmental capital projects, prepared monthly detailed cost analysis for Project Managers to identify and explain variances for work order and funding project

Serve as a SME and process owner for Williams Midstream with responsibilities for maintaining or creating standards, guidelines, and best practices.

Overseen RFP and Bid activities, vendors, and supplies; administers and monitors contracts for compliance and controls costs.

Reviewed and made recommendations to switch Utility provider for LMM large compressor; Enrolled LMM Utilities in Advantage IQ to secure the return of $540k security deposit.