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Elisabeth Mitten

Highlands Ranch

Summary

Finance professional with history of providing critical financial insights and supporting strategic initiatives. Known for strong focus on team collaboration and delivering reliable results in dynamic environments. Skilled in financial modeling and data analysis, with reputation for adaptability and reliability.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Financial Analyst

Blue Ridge Associates
07.2024 - Current
  • Provide cost performance management, report compilation, budget, and data analysis.
  • Analyze operational and financial data, create ad hoc financial and customer reports.
  • Prepare, import and monitor budgets and forecasts with long-term planning components.
  • Create and distribute Sage Dashboards to reflect company KPIs

Sr Financial Operations Analyst

DVW
03.2024 - 07.2024
  • Manage monthly and year end reporting, P&L, balance sheet, franchise reports.
  • Analyze operational and financial data, create ad hoc financial and customer reports.
  • Assist CPA with tax documentation.
  • Coordinate pricing updates and vendor payouts.

Sr Financial Systems Analyst

BELLCO CREDIT UNION
07.2023 - 03.2024
  • Create complex financial models and conduct ad hoc analysis with organization-wide impact for executive management, the Finance Committee, and the Board of Directors ensuring accuracy of data.
  • Prepare spreadsheets, graphs, charts, presentations and monthly financial reports, quarterly audits as well as ad-hoc reports as needed.
  • Design and develop financial and analytical across multiple systems and data sets to address organizational needs.
  • Design new business processes, including system analysis, development, and implementation.
  • Act as an Accounting/Finance liaison with other business users on systems-related initiatives.
  • Maintains systems and acts as administrator to the various software.
  • Coordinate and communicate Accounting/Finance department testing and implementation of new releases, new products, and improvements.
  • Ensure the accuracy of all outputs of the accounting/finance systems.
  • Identify operations and system weaknesses and ensure adequate internal controls are in place and maintained.

Financial Analyst

LOCKTON, INC
07.2022 - 07.2023
  • Using Power Query and Access, create a system of automated Excel data in a usable format for financial reports.
  • Analyze and interpret client data warehouse information.
  • Prepare spreadsheets, graphs, charts, diagrams, and other illustrative tools for presentations and reports.
  • Use financial modeler and other tools to predict the fiscal impact of health reform on client plans.
  • Underwrite renewals and prepare renewal and budget reports for assigned accounts.
  • Review reporting and data gathering processes and procedures for efficiency.

Financial Operations Analyst

DVW
05.2021 - 06.2022
  • Set Up a Bookkeeping system with a usable Chart of Accounts Quicken).
  • Built a Financial reporting structure for P&L, Balance Sheet, and Royalty Reporting.
  • Create a marketing plan, including creating a defined list for custom mailers.
  • Developed processes and user instructions.
  • Training staff on the use system.

Financial Analyst

CREATIVE FINANCIAL STAFFING / TENDER BELLY
12.2021 - 02.2022
  • Build out and automate COGS models. Create and automate financial reporting packages.
  • Increased efficiency of monthly financial reporting.

Project Analyst

ULTEIG
10.2020 - 04.2021
  • Responsibilities include collecting data from various sources and generating reporting packages that give actionable insights.
  • Create specifications for reports and analyses based on business needs and requests.
  • Created a dynamic project health status report used by engineers and upper management to gauge project performance.
  • Using Power Query, streamlined and automated manually entered reports to increase functionality and save man-hours.
  • Initiated bi-weekly status reporting.

Sr Data Analyst

AKRAYA / KAISER PERMANENTE
11.2019 - 02.2020
  • Analyze data for the AACC Transformation Group.
  • Built monthly financial and data reporting templates and successfully transferred Kaiser Permanente Analyst.

Operations Engineering Tech

DISCOVERY NATURAL RESOURCES
05.2018 - 05.2019
  • Analyze operational and financial data. Assemble, extract, and analyze data from various internal and external systems, including Power BI, WellView, AFE Navigator, and third-party well data.
  • Assist engineers and management in preparing technical reports, analyses, evaluations, and presentations.
  • Generate monthly well workover and LOE reports based on standard procedures to provide project performance tracking and ensure the accuracy of data.

Reserves Analyst

BILL BARRETT CORPORATION
10.2014 - 02.2017
  • Budget process using Aries, Access, and Excel: Create cashflows, spreadsheets, reports, and presentations, update timing, reserve/budget categories, status, production (monthly/daily, operated/non-operated), etc., as needed, update and manage competitor data.
  • Collaborate with other technicians and engineers in reservoir, production, geology, and operations to support reservoir analyses, budget procedures and reporting, look-backs, valuations, auditing, variances, and BOD presentations.
  • Created Excel financial forecast model based on type curve and base data that toggles between MBO, NGL, MBOE, and MMCF by year and by month and includes interactive factors of WI, NRI, differential risking year 1 and year 2, #wells per pad, start date.

AFE Project Consultant

ADDISON GROUP / SM ENERGY
06.2014 - 09.2014
  • Project to review AFE policy and procedures to ensure compliance with SEC and Corp Engineering reserves policy with regards to well (DCE, Well work, Recompletion) and expenditure type (Capital, Expense) and well classification (Development, Exploration).
  • Created a decision tree outlining the process as a user tool to facilitate selection.

Analyst/Backbone Training Coordinator

AMERAPEX CORP / BP
10.2012 - 09.2013
  • Project: Provides varied support functions to the BP's Backbone Training Team, including the backbone administrator of Virtual Training Assistant (VTA), Change, Authorization, and Training Administration (CATA), and local ACCESS db of users.
  • Utilize VTA, CATA, and Microsoft Office software tools to manage Backbone training data and produce reports.
  • Provide administrative support of VTA, including assistance in managing select user accounts, Backbone course assignments, course schedules, and completion records.
  • Generate Backbone training completion reports and metrics and support system migrations as required.
  • Update/create leadership reports.
  • Provide VTA user support for Backbone online training: answering how-to questions, playback troubleshooting, entering rosters, electronic records retention, and records research.
  • Assist Communications with training-related communications.

Accounting Analyst

SOURCE ENERGY
08.2011 - 04.2012
  • Provided AP support, month-end close, financial reporting (LOE, LOS, AFE), tax audit support, AFE creation, and cost tracking.

Wellview Technician

NORTHWEST TECHNICAL SERVICES / ConocoPhillips
04.2010 - 10.2010
  • Provided Wellview support for the Wells Group within ConocoPhillips Alaska, including troubleshooting installation and connectivity difficulties, helpdesk support, running daily reports, updating wellbore schematics, and providing backup for the Drilling Wellview Technician.
  • The job required a monthly trip to Kuparuk on Alaska's North Slope

Budget Analyst >>Sr. Business Lead >>Data Analyst

AMERAPEX CORP / BP
10.2006 - 04.2010
  • Data Analyst (2010): Served on a short-term project transferring new-hire data records from MS Excel to MS Access for BP’s North Slope Field Technicians.
  • Created and presented reports for tracking technician-specific training.
  • Senior Business Lead (2008 to 2009): Provided support to the Denali Alaska Gas Pipeline A2B Data Management Team (DMT), including cost and performance management.
  • Served as a liaison between DMT and Project Services for all project controls, including budgeting, forecasting, contract supervision, and resource allocation.
  • Reviewed contracts for the data manager.
  • Performed work-in-progress Actual to Incurred dollars submission.
  • Prepared budgets and forecasts with long-term planning components.
  • Supervised DMT subcontract managers for adherence to project scope, schedule, cost, and deliverables.
  • Selected and managed the DMT Data Analyst and Subcontract Project Leads.
  • Facilitated weekly project meetings, ensuring compliance.
  • Produced reports and presented performance reviews at weekly and monthly meetings.
  • Created and distributed a DMT newsletter promoting awareness of business intelligence and value.
  • Authored Communication Bulletins, increasing engagement and adherence to processes and procedures.
  • Developed and executed strategic project vision, roadmap, and charter document.
  • Budget Analyst (2006 to 2008): Provided cost performance management, report compilation, budget, and data analysis for an Automation Fire and Gas Program.
  • Served as a liaison between Automation, Fire & Gas Group, Project Services, and Commercial for project controls, including budgeting, forecasting, and contract supervision.
  • Prepared budgets, forecasting, and long-term strategic plans, including variance reports.
  • Managed Authorization for Expenditures; AFE program represented over $165M combined capital and expense.
  • Created and maintained overhead allocation and distributed overhead costs across all open AFEs by percentage.
  • Developed performance review reports. Strong understanding of Cost Extraction SAP/Brio query, Man-hours, and Equipment CMMS.
  • Subject matter expert in BP Capital Information Processes, various stages, and requirements.
  • Knowledgeable in Automation, Fire and Gas (AF&G) Workflows for AFE processes.
  • Coordinated and developed project work-in-progress (WIP), commitment and estimate-at-complete (EAC.
  • Served as Lead reviewing AF&G AFE status and progress; troubleshoot “red-light” issues with project leads.
  • Facilitated meetings to review AFE costs, contingency costs, and estimates with project leads.
  • Spearheaded allocation AFE, which consolidated program/overhead costs and spread them equitably among AFEs.

Project Specialist

NORTHWEST TECHNICAL SERVICES / MARATHON OIL
10.2005 - 10.2006
  • Performed cost and performance management work for the Marathon Oil Company, a client of Northwest Technical Services.
  • Processed Actual-to-Incurred dollar submissions, tracking, and reporting.
  • Prepared, submitted and tracked Authorization-for-Expenditure (AFE).
  • Represented a $70M combined capital and expense AFE program.
  • Prepared budgets, forecasting, and long-term strategic plans, including variance reports.
  • Created a system to track over-budget capital and expense.
  • Extracted and analyzed cost data from the SAP Business Warehouse.
  • Created and maintained a cost-tracking system to monitor capital and expenses.
  • Performed annual capital and expense budgeting.
  • Formulated insightful, data-driven reports to present at weekly and monthly performance review meetings.
  • Created a beneficial interactive AFE system for in-field use.
  • Conducted Performance Management presentations.

Planning Analyst

FOREST OIL CORPORATION
02.2001 - 09.2005
  • Performed cost and performance management, including creating and maintaining engineering, operational, financial, and reserves databases, resulting in increased efficiency and cost control.
  • Managed actual-to-incurred dollar submission, tracking, and reporting.
  • Submitted Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) and Federal Reports.
  • Oversaw Authorization-of-Expenditure (AFE), including submissions and tracking.
  • Served as administrator and in-house expert for ARIES.
  • Ran ARIES economics and decline curves and maintained the integrity of data.
  • Provided budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning assistance.
  • Created a system to track over-budget capital and expense AFEs.
  • Prepared and presented cost and production performance review reports at weekly/monthly meetings.
  • Extracted and analyzed cost data from the DAVE accounting system.
  • Created and maintained a cost tracking system for capital and expense costs.
  • Produced annual capital and expense budgeting.
  • Applied data analysis tools to solve operational control and to monitor problems with cost tracking and reporting.
  • Developed high quality data transfer interfaces between financial and production programs.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Program Administration

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska
05-1991

Skills

  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Variance & Trend Analysis
  • Account Reconciliation Analysis & Reporting
  • KPI Dashboard & Presentation Design
  • Data-Drive Decision Making
  • Strategic planning
  • Business operations analysis

Accomplishments

    · Created an excel forecast tool that allowed engineers to quickly change economic model via key variables. (savings: 40-man hours per quarter)

    · Using Power Query and Access, created a system of automation for over 200 excel spreadsheets and other data into usable format for financial reports. Eliminated hand entry of data. (Savings: 30-man hours per month * 3 analysts)

    · Consolidated morning reports within one document using lookups to decrease hand entered production and financial forecast data. (savings: 10-man hours per week)

Timeline

Sr Financial Analyst

Blue Ridge Associates
07.2024 - Current

Sr Financial Operations Analyst

DVW
03.2024 - 07.2024

Sr Financial Systems Analyst

BELLCO CREDIT UNION
07.2023 - 03.2024

Financial Analyst

LOCKTON, INC
07.2022 - 07.2023

Financial Analyst

CREATIVE FINANCIAL STAFFING / TENDER BELLY
12.2021 - 02.2022

Financial Operations Analyst

DVW
05.2021 - 06.2022

Project Analyst

ULTEIG
10.2020 - 04.2021

Sr Data Analyst

AKRAYA / KAISER PERMANENTE
11.2019 - 02.2020

Operations Engineering Tech

DISCOVERY NATURAL RESOURCES
05.2018 - 05.2019

Reserves Analyst

BILL BARRETT CORPORATION
10.2014 - 02.2017

AFE Project Consultant

ADDISON GROUP / SM ENERGY
06.2014 - 09.2014

Analyst/Backbone Training Coordinator

AMERAPEX CORP / BP
10.2012 - 09.2013

Accounting Analyst

SOURCE ENERGY
08.2011 - 04.2012

Wellview Technician

NORTHWEST TECHNICAL SERVICES / ConocoPhillips
04.2010 - 10.2010

Budget Analyst >>Sr. Business Lead >>Data Analyst

AMERAPEX CORP / BP
10.2006 - 04.2010

Project Specialist

NORTHWEST TECHNICAL SERVICES / MARATHON OIL
10.2005 - 10.2006

Planning Analyst

FOREST OIL CORPORATION
02.2001 - 09.2005

Bachelor of Arts - Program Administration

University of Alaska Anchorage

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