Vice President - Finance (Oil & Gas)

Position Title

Vice President - Finance (Oil & Gas)

Location: Denver

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Salary Range: $245,000 to $286,000

Job Summary

The VP of Finance is an executive-level position responsible for the forward Planning, Budgeting, Treasury, Hedging, M&A, Capital Markets and offering processes. This position helps to oversee the organization's financial operations to ensure financial health, and support high-level strategic planning / growth.

Essential Functions

• Collaborates across various business functions (Finance, Accounting, Corporate Development, Operations, Land, and Legal) to understand business needs, develop strategies, and ensure financial goals support business objectives
• Responsible for financial modeling and analytical tools to measure and forecast the impact of various economic scenarios, risks, and business changes
• Owns and develops the internal NAV Model for financial modeling related to various strategic objectives, M&A, hedging program, capital markets, etc.
• Partnership with Corporate Development to align financial needs of the business, partner on the corporate model, FP&A and forward looking forecast on a monthly basis
• Implement optimized financial processes to ensure timely internal reporting for real-time decision making, Board meetings, reporting, etc.
• Prepare presentations to Senior Management, the Board of Directors and external parties
• Maintain a database tracking the performance of corporate merger candidates, and works with Corp Development Team to model and evaluate
• Create and maintain working relationships with various external stakeholders, including, but not limited to investment bankers and commercial lenders
• Assist in the accounting aspects of acquisitions and divestitures
• Assist in preparation of Board reporting, earnings releases, and other management reporting requests
• Flexibility to own / attack special projects as needed

QUALIFICATIONS / Skills / Special Knowledge

• Bachelor's degree in business / finance / accounting
• MBA preferred
• Minimum of 10 years experience in oil and gas accounting
• Asset level experience with upstream oil and gas business
• Extensive oil and gas financial modeling experience
• Experience with Aires, oil and gas ERP systems ("e.g. Quorum") preferred
• Positive culture carrier, leads by example, a doer with an extreme ownership philosophy
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of financial statements and purchase accounts, discounted cash flow and internal rates of return
• Ability to work under pressure and overtime
• Demonstrate high degree of integrity

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Job is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires regular use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system
• The noise level in the office environment is usually quiet
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus
• Field work will be outdoors under variable weather conditions

Physical demands

• May require occasional lifting of heavy objects
• The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms

employee benefits

Prairie Operating Employee Co., LLC offers competitive compensation and benefits programs which include, but are not limited to, health care coverage, retirement plan, protection coverage, time off and leave programs, training and development opportunities and a range of allowances connected to specific work situations.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, marital status or veteran status.

Prairie Operating Employee Co., LLC reserves the right to modify this job description at its discretion at any time. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive and does not imply that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.”