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Maria Montecillo
Finance, Projects, and Commercial Skills:
  • Strong understanding of license agreements, joint venture agreements, and PSA contracts
  • Experienced in investment analysis, financial modelling and valuation of capital projects
  • Skilled in contract negotiation and compliance
  • Strong collaboration and influencing skills
  • Effective communicator with proven ability to articulate messages to business stakeholders, partners, and cross-functional teams from all parts of the globe
  • Strong problem solving and analytical skills
  • Extensive, diverse and unique background in the Upstream and Midstream oil and gas businesses
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with expertise in joint venture, production and revenue accounting
  • Accomplished educator
Technical Skills:
  • Business Process Expert in SAP JVA, PRA, PSA modules
  • Highly skilled in business process modelling
  • Familiarity with SAP FICO, PS, MM, PM and BW solutions
  • Expert on ERP integration with SAP and non-SAP products
  • Strong experience in full life cycle SAP deployments
  • Experienced in release management using the Agile approach
 Professional Experience
Joint Venture Process Owner
BP International
Responsibilities:
  • Design authority, Subject Matter Expert and Single Point of Contact for JVA processes in the Western Hemisphere region
  • Lead Fit-Gap workshops to capture requirements
  • Assess, analyze and provide design for RTR solutions
  • Review JVA work requests, identify design options, and determine best solution by collaborating with other process owners to ensure end to end business process integration
  • Document the functional design and partner with technical team to ensure technical design meets business requirement
  • Provide configuration design and solve configuration design issues
  • Support deployment activities such as developing test scripts for user testing, preparing and delivering business process training, managing and providing user support, and all other activities related to the Western Hemisphere regions
Achievements/Projects:
Global Financial Template - Sustain: Upstream Mexico
  • Product owner and Single Point of Contact for JVA work requests (defects and enhancements)
  • Lead and coordinate requirements gathering sessions for work requests
  • Support, participate, and approve design for global and local JV as well as integrated RTR solutions
  • Define test scenarios, coordinate and manage user testing
  • Deliver JV refresher training
Global Financial Template - Upstream Americas Program: Alaska, Central Functions, Canada, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, and Trinidad and Tobago
  • Support and deliver business questionnaires
  • Lead  Fit-Gap sessions
  • Provide configuration design and toolkits for technical team
  • Define test scenarios, coordinate and manage testing, and deliver user training in later phases of the project
Additional Contributions:
  • Business process modelling of as-is processes in the Western Hemisphere regions
  • Spearheaded the creation of a global, industry-wide JV user community for best practices and led the group to influence SAP in delivering OSS notes (i.e. adding GOS features to JV master data screens and excluding cutback postings from JV in CO availability control)
  • Organized and hosted ASUG events as JV ASUG Chair
GFO Coordinator and Senior Balance Sheet Analyst, Gulf of Mexico
BP America
Responsibilities:
  • Provide core financial reporting, management information, and analysis
  • Plan, coordinate, and assure the monthly and quarterly financial close process
  • Coordinate, facilitate and support the working capital forecasting process for the Group Financial Outlook (GFO) submission
  • Serve as subject matter expert in Sarbanes Oxley evaluation projects
  • Define information requirements and direct priorities for Accenture outsourced accounting service providers
Achievements:
  • Developed a single working capital model and ensured the timely creation of the system which resulted in over $500k in savings a year
  • Recommended a cash initiative to accelerate the collection of $40m in overdue receivables
  • Identified a working capital opportunity which led to an overhaul of inventory management process and an expected cash improvement of over $100m a year
  • Participated in BP's quarterly global communication teleconferences as Communications Tag for North America
Senior Finance Revenue Analyst
BP America
Responsibilities:
  • Provided oversight, analysis and quality assurance of financial reporting relating to offshore production revenue by reviewing, verifying, and validating actual revenue results during the financial close process
  • Established, maintained, and monitored effective and efficient financial controls and reporting process
  • Provided guidance and input to senior management on production revenue related matters
Achievements:
  • Conducted discussions and oversaw compliance of Sarbanes Oxley
  • Streamlined the revenue accrual process which resulted in savings of $100k per year
  • Participated in a company task force to review, verify and validate BP's global oil and gas reserves in the aftermath of Shell's over-reporting of reserves
Commercial Analyst
BP America
Responsibilities:
  • Developed the asset business plan and monitored asset performance
  • Managed asset components of the company's financial outlook
  • Analyzed the asset portfolio to determine the fit with the company's business strategy
  • Performed the economic appraisal of capital investments as well as the post appraisal economics of completed projects
  • Managed and improved the capital expenditure and operating cost tracking systems
Achievements:
  • Designed and supervised the build of an asset monitoring system that streamlined the tracking of capital spending and accruals which resulted in saving of 100 man-hours per year
Operations Services Representative
BP America
Responsibilities:
  • Liaison between traders, marketers, accounting business services and the producing business
  • Interfaced with working interest owners, pipeline operators and non-operators regarding various Lower 48 onshore properties
  • Maximized the value of gas assets by managing pipeline and wellhead hydrocarbon inventory through daily monitoring of gas availability, scheduling and confirming of nominations
Achievements:
  • Successfully managed and optimized gas imbalances with partners and pipelines for 40 production areas in four states through effective communication of gas availability
Gas Supply Representative
Vastar Resources
Responsibilities:
  • Managed and negotiated marketing agreements with JV Partners and ensured contracts were implemented according to the terms of the agreements
  • Built relationships with gatherers and mainline pipeline companies to improve communication and properly coordinate production maintenance schedules with gathering and transportation providers to minimize production losses
Achievements:
  • Proactively converted all revenue sharing sales contracts into joint operating marketing agreements contributing to an additional $165k in cash flow
  • Discovered additional gas availability where the JV Partner was withholding production while waiting for reimbursement on facility spend which resulted in a cash collection of $145k
Production and Revenue Analyst
Vastar Resources
Responsibilities:
  • Managed accounting, recording, and reconciliation of oil and gas revenue for Lower 48 onshore properties to ensure timely and accurate reporting and payment of royalties and severance taxes
  • Interfaced with gas supply, field personnel, land, JV Partners, royalty owners, and state regulatory agencies
Achievements:
  • Spearheaded the periodic review of field recording methodologies to determine compliance with agreements, company policy, and industry standard procedures.
 Professional Accreditations
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Texas State Board of Public Accountancy
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Philippine Board of Accountancy
 University Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance
Tulane University, A.B. Freeman School of Business
Tulane Graduate Fellow
Graduate Special Studies, Computer Science / Information Systems
Tulane University, School of Science and Engineering
Rotary International Scholar
Master of Management (MM)
University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA), Accounting
University of the Philippines
 Other Accomplishments 
  • Developed and taught Exploration and Production Accounting Fundamentals courses on Production Revenue, Cash Calls and Joint Interest Billings as a corporate faculty
  • Mentored newly hired accounting graduates
  • Taught accounting, finance and general business courses to University undergraduate and graduate students
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