Analyst - Account Services / SR (Hybrid) (Finance)
Position Description
This position is within Kinder Morgan's Midstream group, reporting to the Manager Account Services. The successful candidate will be responsible for setting up and maintaining contractual pricing and transactional level information for various product types (gas, oil, condensate, NGL) covered under a wide spectrum of agreements (purchase, sale, transport, storage, treating, gathering, gas processing, balancing, etc.). Previous experience in the energy industry within the deal/rate capture or accounting/invoicing departments would align well with this position. Candidates should understand upstream and downstream departmental relations and will work closely with Marketing, Contract Administration, Scheduling, Accounting, Legal, and IT.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Effectively communicates with a broad base of internal and external customers, while ensuring all transactions are fully and accurately captured
- Ability to comprehend and follow the workflow from contract creation to invoicing
- Requires accurate/efficient nomination, price and rate entry as well as detailed analysis to maintain special pricing terms and formulas
- Ensures that prices/rates loaded for billing and consistent with executed contract language
- Critical hands-on work reviewing and providing feedback on the various contracts being negotiated
- Verification of all relevant index publications and postings as well as all inflationary indices used to settle agreements processed in multiple system applications.
- Develop thorough understanding of proprietary DART system, and running required reports and summaries with regard to contract information, rates and charges, penalties, cash out, etc.
- Participate in development and testing of processes in DART relating to Midstream Account Services
- Troubleshoots issues when data does not interface to downstream systems and communicates/coordinates resolution with affected stakeholders
- Processes and analyzes multiple ad hoc queries and canned system reports used to identify discrepancies
- Researches and resolves customer inquiries and anticipates/prevents potential future issues
- Validates time-sensitive third party transaction confirmations against system data and coordinates with account managers to resolve differences in a timely manner
- Analyzes data to provide updated forecast information and researches/responds to flash vs actual variances
- Extracts/analyzes data to satisfy various governmental reporting requirements
- Researches and responds timely to internal and external data requests
- Helps coordinate audit requests and provides necessary support to satisfy these requests
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel is essential to successfully manage complex transactions
- Analyze and fully understand complex issues or events while resolving competing priorities
- Provides training and assistance to team members and other departments
- Assists the team in problem resolution and project work as well as systems design and testing
- Evaluates and makes recommendations on process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy
- Verifies data set-up in systems for compliance with ASC 606 and related SOX requirements
*Job level commensurate with experience/skill set
Position Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or related field. Relative energy industry work experience may be considered as a substitute for a degree.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and establish relationships and communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
- Working in a team environment as well as working autonomously with limited direct supervision
- Ability to achieve results with accuracy, a sense of urgency and strong attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize workload in fast paced and frequently changing environment
- Must possess strong organization and time management skills
- Keen analytical skills to successfully troubleshoot and resolve issues
- Familiarity with NAESB and non-standard contracts with emphasis on sales, purchase, transport, storage, gathering and processing agreements and their underlying deal/rate structure
- Ability to review draft contract language to verify charges are processed systematically, identify exceptions and provide recommendations and alternative solutions prior to execution of the agreement
- Ability to persuasively present ideas and results to peers and management
- Aptitude for documenting business procedures and systems test cases with an acute ability to discern exceptions
- Special projects and other daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly assignments as required
- Occasional overtime may be required
Above the minimum requirements, not required but advantageous in this position:
- Prior exposure with the current systems applications (DART, TIPS, QLM)
- Ability to develop ad hoc queries and reports (MS Excel Macro/SQL)
- Plant processing experience
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