The energy industry – oil & gas sector in particular – is bracing itself for a massive wave of retirements over the short to medium term, which has been dubbed “The Great Shift Change.” As the industry prepares for this turnover, companies are looking to the next generation of candidates with skills ranging from finance, geology, engineering, law, etc.

Additionally, lots of exciting opportunities are opening up in various renewable energy sectors as technological advancements rapidly disrupt traditional utility business models. The energy efficiency business is also growing by leaps and bounds, as significant cost saving benefits associated with using less energy are an easy sell for most businesses.  

With these issues in mind, Breaking Energy highlights a few interesting energy jobs on a weekly basis.     

Accountant – Gas Marketing 

Anadarko; The Woodlands, TX, US

Job Summary
This position is located in the Anadarko Corporate office in The Woodlands, TX and is a member of the Operational Gas Marketing Team within the Corporate Accounting Organization (CAO). The primary responsibility of the position is to support domestic Marketing and Midstream operations offices in reporting and recording accounting activities.

Qualifications

• This position requires a minimum of +2 years relevant experience preferably in oil and gas accounting.
• Experience in public accounting is a plus.
• Strong Microsoft Office usage (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with an emphasis in Excel is required.
• This position requires strong verbal and written communication skills; the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization and with external representatives; and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Additional requirements of the position are analytical and research skills, and the ability to produce results under tight deadlines.
• The ability to multi-task is also required.

Responsibilities

• Account for all sources and dispositions of gas in the downstream/upstream chain.
• Balance all activity on assigned pipelines and record transactions as necessary to generate pipeline margins and cost of gas sold reports.
• This position works closely with and provides support to the Marketing Operations, Midstream and Revenue Accounting Departments.
• Verify volumes in gas marketing systems to pipeline statements for third party purchases, sales and transportation transactions.
• Reconcile equity purchases to pipeline and other supporting documents.
• Verify prices/rates in marketing system as needed for purchases, sales and transport transactions.
• Prepare transportation and purchase invoices for payment including obtaining appropriate approvals.
• Prepare invoices for third party sales customers.
• Prepare journal entries for related activity on assigned pipelines.
• Analyze monthly variances and provide explanations to management.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts.
• Assist with the collection of receivables and resolution of disputes.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance or equivalent work experience.

Certification / Licenses

CPA preferred but not required.
Grade and salary will be commensurate with relevant education and experience.

Travel Requirements

Up to 10% travel time may be required

Work Schedule
This position is eligible for the 9/80 work schedule.

Discover your strengths and invest in your future by applying today.

Senior Business Analyst Learning 

Shell; London/Netherlands

The successful application is responsible for supporting, as an alayst, the strategic roadmap that will enable Learning to a) optimize their user experience, b) simplify their business processes in order to, c) move to a refreshed learning landscape leading up to and beyond 2017.

This requires:
– Understanding of the business strategy and processes
– Understanding of the technology use in the industry and with Shell peer group
– Expectation setting about IT opportunities and limitations to the business
– Pro-active attitude and willingness to challenge business
-Ability to deliver what we commit to our stakeholders

The BI BA in Learning reports to the IMIT Manager Learning – is responsible for supporting the IMIT Manager with flawless IT project delivery and reliable and secure IT operations and as such leader of the Natural Team (BI, DV and SOM) overseeing all delivery to the business.

The BI BA in Learning must integrate strategic knowledge and planning skills, IT and technology understanding, stakeholder engagement skills, support and project expertise, and a keen “value delivery mindset” to be successful and support the BI.

We are looking for university degree top notch experienced hires from recognised Universities, who have:

• preferably worked at top tier strategy consulting firm, boutique strategy firm, or consulting in a big 4 accountancy firm so has rounded consultant skillset including communications, strong quantatitive analysis skills and strategic thinking
• Challenger mindset, excellent relationship skills (at senior executive levels) and brings both external mindset and team working to the fore
• HR experience is preferred, but not required. You have IT affinity and can work in an IT environment and are confident with systems, data, process and people considerations in matrix and complex organisations
• You can manage delivery of the strategy through a complex matrix organization utilizing your skill in delivery through others
• Demonstrated ability to work with multi-cultural teams to deliver high-quality output in short timeframes and to take accountability
• Planning and coordination of own and/or team’s work activities, to meet commitments and quality expectations; brings delegation and motivation skills to the team and encourages collaboration to get the best out of people

You will have the following personal traits:

• Strong communication skills (speaking, writing, listening)
• Confident , poised, ability to relate to senior client executives
• Leadership abilities – transfer vision into results; team motivator and strong leader
• Strong interest in broadening skills, as opposed to being narrowly focused

Discover your strengths and invest in your future by applying today.

Developer Job 

SuccessFactors; Sunnyvale, CA, US

EXPECATIONS AND TASKS
As a Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to accelerate the innovation and delivery of the Ariba products.  You will collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers to   expand the Ariba Cloud to cover every corner of the globe.  You will have the opportunity to work on internet scale level problems and complex business problems.  You will work with Java, HANA, Hadoop, and Ariba Cloud technologies. To succeed in this position you must be incredibly smart, passionate about the user experience and be very results-oriented to get things done.

• Work in core components for the Ariba cloud that include persistence, meta-data model, object model framework, common data server, customization framework, UI frameworks
• Master the art of the framework design and modeling, understand the impact of object model design in a large-scale multi-tenant on-demand environment
• You will be member of the core Ariba cloud engineering team
• Work on solving scalability and performance problems

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of development experience developing production grade software
• Strong programming skills, as well as the ability to read and code review complex code bases written by others
• Ability to work independently and take on ownership of large projects in a very dynamic and adaptive environment
• Excellent coding skills in Java
• Hands on experience with at least one scripting language (ie Java Script, perl)
• Good Database concepts and experience with at least 1 database technology (ie SQL or NoSQL)
• Experience solving internet scale problems
• Experience working on cloud (on-demand) software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Discover your strengths and invest in your future by applying today.