Marketing Marine Accounting Supervisor

About the role

The Marketing Marine Accounting Supervisor will hold a highly visible position within the company and will assist the Accounting Director execute the accurate and timely reporting of accounting tasks and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, train, and develop a 3+ person team specializing in crude marine volumes actualizations and settlements;
• Cultivate a strong team culture within the group to encourage collaboration and cross training within the team;
• Oversee the volumes actualizations and settlements process for all crude marine activity ensuring that it is completed on-time and accurately.
• Ensure payable invoices are reconciled to the trading system and paid on-time.
• Ensure sales invoices are sent timely to ensure cash is received on-time.
• Assist team in researching volume discrepancies.
• Review monthly/daily cash forecasts and identify ways to improve accuracy of a 3 month forecast.
• Provide working capital variance explanations to treasury weekly, or as needed.
• Assist team in research and settlement of aged receivables and payables.
• Perform month-end closing procedures and submit reports on-time in accordance with the department calendar and schedule.
• Analyze inventory and explain volumetric variances between current month, prior month, and forecasts.
• Perform month-end closing procedures and submit reports on-time in accordance with the department calendar and schedule.
• Review, approve, and understand account reconciliations ensuring that reconciling items are addressed timely.
• Collaborate with the financial analysis team for balance sheet and income statement analysis and margin tie-outs.
• Create measurable metrics within the team to hold staff accountable for their assigned tasks.
• Aid in ad hoc reports and special assignments when needed (i.e., system implementation (Allegro 8, SAP)).
• Provide assistance to the analysis team for audit and tax requests (internal and external).
• Manage relationships with and regularly provide support to front office, mid office, credit, and treasury.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance with at least 21 hours of accounting.
• Energy Marketing industry experience (10 + years).
• Relevant marine and/or crude specific experience as a Volume Actualizations or Settlements Supervisor (5+ years).
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills.
• Highly motivated and has the ability to manage, motivate, and develop a large team to ensure deadlines are met.
• Efficiently delegates tasks and manages work allocation amongst team to ensure deadlines are met.
• Team-oriented spirit who displays a willingness to help others within the organization as a whole.
• Motivated, self-directed and results-driven approach to work, also takes ownership of assigned tasks.
• Strong communication skills.
• Creative thinker who can identify processes for continuous process improvement opportunities.
• Strong decision-making skills who can independently solve problems for his/her team.
• Ability to anticipate issues and how they impact the team or other stakeholders, and act on them in advance.
• Demonstrated ability to streamline and improve processes.
• Working proficiency and knowledge in Excel, i.e. mining/manipulating data.
• Quick learner who is enthusiastic about using technology and is tech-savvy.
• Experience using a trading system, Allegro 8 experience a plus.