Susan Gittens

• Reported to the Principal and Board of Directors
• Directed all accounting operations, including A/R, A/P, payroll and general ledger
• Conducted annual budgeting process and provided quarterly forecasts to the Board resulting in approximately 11% reduction in operational cost over five years
• Oversaw external audits and addressed all audit findings
• Developed and maintained robust policies and procedures governing administrative operations with in the school
• Secretary to the Board: Liaised with Chairman and Directors on various financial and school issues
• Oversaw facilities management tasks such as maintenance requests for school buildings and attached facilities to ensure the functionality and safety of the work environment and playgrounds
• Procured textbooks, furniture, school and cleaning supplies for 350 plus students
• Managed health and pension plans for 50 staff members
• Supervised the school’s custodial staff and contractors employed by the school

Reported into the Vice President Finance.

• Managed BGTT’s equity in Atlantic LNG, to ensure key deliverables are achieved to minimize financial exposures for BGTT and its Joint Venture partners
• Functioned as BGTT’s shareholder representative at Atlantic LNG Finance & Tax committees
• Coordinated all joint venture partner activities such as supervision/preparation of monthly billings, cash calls, budget approvals and managing authorization for expenditures
• Fulfilled the role of Finance Committee representative for active Production Sharing Contracts providing all financial input
• Hosted quarterly meetings with Ministry of Energy sharing financial performance data, project updates and discussed resolving cost recovery audit issues
• Lead a team of three accountants managing revenues across the LNG gas chain

During the years 2001 to February 2005, I held various Finance Controller roles with in the Business Unit in several areas such as Market Development, Facilities Development and Corporate Functions

• The role of the Controller entailed providing assurance around the integrity of the Unit’s financial results and its internal control environment
• Development of the Unit’s Performance Contract, metrics and a system of reporting actual against monthly plan
• Developed and implemented a management information system to enable nine Corporate Functions to manage and report it accountabilities (Capital & Operating expenditure) separately from that of the Business Unit
• Achieved Unit’s Capital and Operating targets(respectively) of $87.9 in capital and $55.8 million US for the year by making appropriate timely interventions with upper management
• Managed a lease buy back transaction which resulted in saving the Business Unit $5.0 million US in lease payments over the life of the leases and also ensuring that the Business unit was in compliance with International Accounting Standards by the required date 1st January 2005
• Executed the Train 2/3 contracts from a financial and accounting perspective ensuring that all processes were in place to handle the accelerated start up (ca two months) of both Trains
• The advent of the Train 2/3 start up brought with it proportionally accounting for BPTT equity in Train 2/3
• This brought with it a complex cash cost component to the BU (ca $40MMUSD per year) associated with variable and non-variable Midstream costs
• Provided various project teams, Train 4, Atlas and Cannonball with input with respect to finance, timing of funding and required approvals

• Lead budget process for Service Unit
• Co-ordinate the Business Unit Resource Leadership Team (BURLT) dairy and meetings
• Made timely interventions on cost over runs and safety issues

• Responsible for the planning, directing and control of payroll functions
• Managing payroll’s link with HR
• Handle the management and execution of projects within payroll

• Coordinate the budget process for Service Groups
• Financial analysis, preparation of service cost reports and special ad hoc requests
• Expatriate payroll recordings including associated PAYE and related tax returns

• Directing and controlling the payable function, supervising and training staff
• Coordinating the month-end close process in order to meet delivery dates
• Development of monthly automated scorecards measuring the efficiency of the payable function for the Commercial managers
• Managing of projects to improve flow of transactions through the systems and accurate cost capture
• Analysis of data and generation of reports for Commercial Managers

• Responsible for controlling the processing stock receipts and the analysis of stock balances and freight allocation
• Managing of the Property Record Ledger Database to provide users with timely information on asset, appropriation and well costs
• Creation of reports for users from database for reconciliation purposes
• Liaising with auditors

• Liaise with Head Office Management on the strategic direction of the Company
• Member of onsite Management Team
• Manage and train the accounting staff, perform administrative duties
• Preparation of monthly management reports and analysis of variances
• Compiling monthly budgets and projected cashflow statements
• Treasury management
• Monitoring foreign debt collections

• Work together with clients in an advisory capacity
• Audit of firms in the banking, manufacture, hotel and distributive industries
• Preparation of audited financial statements for publishing purposes
• Preparation of Client’s taxation documents
• Planning assignments, job/resource co-ordination, preparation of detailed time and fee budgets
• Training of audit staff
• Execution of audits, directing the progress of field work and liaising with partners on the engagement status

• Preparation of financial statements, budgets and bank reconciliation’s and monthly income and expenditure statements
• Reviewing payroll procedures and the collecting and banking of course fees
• Supervising staff of five persons

• Responsibilities included the maintenance of client’s books and records
• Preparing financial statements and Value Added Tax returns for clients