JoAnn Abendroth

9224 Wilcrest Drive

Houston, TX 77099
281-691-1323
ja80bf12@westpost.net

Job Summary:
Professional Financial Analyst with over 15 years of Financial Reporting in dive
rse work environments in the Oil and Gas Industry.
Skills
Account Analysis, Variance Analysis, Account Recon, Budget, Analysis and Allocat
ion Overheads, Audit analysis, Billing analysis, Accounts Payable, Accounts Rec
eivable, Month end entries
SAP Super User, JDEdwards, AS-400, Fades, Microsoft Word, Excel
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX 2002-2010 (Layoff due to Outsourcing pr
ocesses overseas)
Financial Analyst-Controllers
* Implemented, managed Overheads of $40M for41 business units for transparency,
clarity to customer
* Finance lead for Treasury & Holdings Co's ($9B) for stock option posting, inte
rest payments
Quarterly entries in A9 tax database and Taxi-Q
* Managed budget and profit and loss of Management Information for US Controller
s ($25M)
* Month end closing activities, project and sales order set up, general ledger e
ntries, income statement accruals, period end closing consolidation processes fo
r areas in Star gate for cost movement and recoveries
* Managed coordination of Budgets for Central Finance areas with team in Europe
for 17 business budgets (100M) to ensure data input and reconciled by due date.
* Collaborated with Price Waterhouse Coopers on Audit questions to ensure accura
cy of data input, documentation and understanding of entries.
* Monthly Status of Accounts and CAT Controls reporting, analyzing balances to e
nsure accuracy
* Designed restructure of Corporate Finance (CF) and Planning Finance & Investme
nt (PFIS) hierarchy for new organization Shell Finance Services with 6 business
areas within the SAP environment.
* Facilitated Train the trainer training for Order to Cash (Projects & Programme
s, Sales & Contracts) training module for SAP

Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX 2000-2002

Financial Analyst-Risk and Insurance
* Finance lead for Risk and Insurance to Code and Pay invoices and allocate Insu
rance Premiums (Property, Liability, Marine, Workers Compensation, Surety, etc)
of $300M to all US businesses per agreed methodology.
* Annual analysis / reconciliation of Risk & Insurance SLA's (Service Level Agre
ements) comparing time and costs to amounts billed to customers.
* Facilitated training of Global Diverse team on methodologies used for time wri
ting to recover costs from businesses and allocation of insurance premiums at Gl
obal Conference.
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX 1995-2000
Accounts Payable Clerk
* Provide Accounts Payable to Shell Refineries, Retail locations, Lubricants Pla
nt for Accounts Payable and Purchase order modules in Fades, AS400, JDEwards and
SAP systems.
* Processed 250+ invoices per day with minimal errors
* Verified goods receipts for purchase orders
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX 1984-1995
Clerk
* Various Administrative duties for Geophyicists
* Inventory, storage and maintenance of data pertaining to Exploration and Prod
uction lease sale records.
* Assisting personnel with request to retrieve and file records both on and o
ff site
* Ensuring that records are properly stored maintained within guidelines.