Marine Marketing Accountant at OXY, Inc. in Houston, Texas

Job Description:

Description

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) is an international oil and gas exploration and production company, and its OxyChem subsidiary is a major North American chemical manufacturer. We are one of the largest U.S. oil and gas companies, based on equity market capitalization, with more than 40,000 employees and contractors worldwide.

Our greatest asset has been and will continue to be our people. We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual to fill the position of Marketing Marine Accountant based in Houston, Texas.

Reporting to the Marketing Marine Accounting Supervisor, the Marketing Marine Accountant is responsible for actualizing and tracking crude oil volumes transported to market, placed in storage, and delivered to market.

The following are job duties expected of the Marketing Marine Accountant:

• Work with Operations and Front Office to ensure completeness and accuracy of crude vessels and tank inventory transactions recorded in the trading system.


• Perform month-end closing procedures and submit reports on-time in accordance with the department calendar and schedule


• Review and record monthly journal entries to the general ledger for commodity purchases, sales, transportation and fees for accruals and actualized activity


• Ensure that accounting procedures comply with GAAP requirements


• Analyze and prepare balance sheet account reconciliations and resolve reconciling differences on a timely basis


• Collaborate with the financial reporting team for balance sheet, income statement analysis and margin tie-outs


• Assist and participate in special projects on a regular basis


• Prepare PBC's for internal and external audit, assist with analysis and explanations


• Develop and maintain desk procedures as needed


• Manage relationships with and regularly provide support to front office, mid office, credit, and treasury


• Overtime will be required during critical times

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting or minimum 21 hours of accounting with a business degree


• Employ fundamental accounting skills: general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable and account reconciliations


• Relevant experience with crude actualizations and inventory valuation (WACOG)


• SAP experience is highly desirable


• Strong ability in managing and processing large quantities of data


• Ability to communicate in a professional manner and establish effective working relationships with internal operations and external customers


• Team-oriented spirit who displays a willingness to help others and lead by example


• Capacity to maintain an optimistic and positive attitude


• Motivated, self-directed and results-driven approach to work, also takes ownership of assigned tasks


• Ability to research and prepare analysis to respond to internal and external inquiries in a timely, professional and thorough manner


• Creative thinker who can identify processes for continuous process improvement opportunities


• Working proficiency and knowledge in Excel, i.e. mining/manipulating data.


• Initiative to consistently meet internal and external deadlines

Desired Qualification

• SAP software application experience


• Experience with Microsoft Excel


• Experience working in a trading system, Allegro experience a plus

Relocation: Will not be offered at this time.

Occidental does not offer sponsorship of employment-based nonimmigrant visa petitions for this role.

Oxy is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Individual with Disability/Veteran Status

Job

-Accounting

Primary Location

-United States-Texas-Houston

Organization

-OPC

Schedule

-Full-time

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