Rizvan Mammadov

Experience

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  General Motors

  Aug 2000 - Jul 2001

  Accountant

  Bank, cash accounting; invoicing, updating database and monthly reports; prepare payroll, cash ledger, general ledger; tax returns; prepare monthly and quarterly Tax and other funds reports (VAT, Income tax, Property tax, Profit tax, Social Security Fund, Statistics etc.); Credit control

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  Alfa-Audit

  Sept 2002 - May 2003

  Accountant

  Prepare on a daily basis the Cash Disbursement Ledger and Cash Receipt Ledger; maintain subsidiary ledger for advances, receivables and payables; perform the posting of entries/ transactions; ensuring proper controls to be enforced and appropriate systems to be in place; to maintain all required supporting documentation; maintain all accounting records, files and ledgers; regular cash counts, supervise cash reconciliation; Program expenditures planning; Micro Projects financial operations; report to Grantors Show less

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  International Rescue Committee

  Jul 2003 - Jan 2004

  Branch Accountant

  Responsibilities: • Cost accounting and control over the micro project’s financial operations • Maintain all accounting records, files and ledgers, regular cash counts, cash reconciliation; • Planning of Grant expenditures; • Report to Grantors.

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  FH Bertling

  Jan 2004 - Sept 2012

  Finance Manager - Kazakhstan branches

  Responsibilities: • Management of Kazakhstan based four branches accounting departments with 8 staff; • Control over the tax and management accounting; • Cash Flow management; • Internal audit of monthly reports from the offices in Kazakhstan;• Submission of monthly reports to the Head of Management Accounting (UK) and Quarterly reports to the Group Accounting (Germany); • Planning and performance management;• Assisting CFO in maintaining IFRS based database and reconciling against local statutory reports;• Monthly close of books and sign off balance sheet accounts such as cash and bank, receivables, payables, work in progress, accruals, intercompany accounts etc.• Providing solid calculations on deferred tax accounts, profit tax and other tax balances;• Intra group reconciliations, ageing payables and receivables analysis, credit control and local statutory reports assurance. Show less

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  Bp

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2024

  Responsibilities:• Collaborate with functions, regions and central teams as a visualization ambassador to provide: - best practice guidance on Visualization; - answers and suggestions to technical Visualization queries on building reports, dashboards; - training to enhance capability in the Visualization arena and connectivity between stakeholders.• Presentation of best practices at the Upstream Finance Power Hours;• Development and ownership of the Upstream Finance Visualization digital portal / knowledge space / training resource leveraging the Microsoft O365 toolkit;• Support building best practice Visualization tools in Power BI / PowerApps / Power Automate to be used across Upstream Finance which leverage the latest functionality offered by Microsoft;• Help improve the Visualization capability of the Finance organization, both within home location, and other locations as needed;• Help identify opportunities to drive efficiencies and simplification into finance processes through leveraging Visualization and data analysis techniques and support others as needed to deliver these opportunities.Key achievements include:• Delivery as part of the wider team of the segment wide Quarterly Analytical Review Tool leveraging Power BI and Power Apps removing significant volumes of email, excel templates and PowerPoint slides;• Ownership and delivery of the brand-new interactive tools for the whole segment: Monthly Actuals Tool, Quarterly Actuals Tool, Latest Estimate Tool and the Quarterly Plan Submission Tool including delivery of Mobile App and an interactive report which together combined, enabled a modernized, simplified and more efficient process and enabled better quality speed insights to be developed. All the tools were built on Microsoft’s Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, SharePoint, Power Automate) at zero cost. Show less Responsibilities: • Contribute into robust Due Diligence and quarterly close processes and ensure Region financial results (GAIT) are free from material error and prepared in accordance with BP Accounting Policy (Group Reporting Manual). • Contribute to "Silent Running" in delivering the quarterly group reporting for BP net financial statements;• Lead quality analysis, compliance with the UK Tax legislation and reporting BP Pipeline (SCP) and TANAP UK tax packs. Keep up to date tax pack manuals;• Prepare and lead AIOC gross and BTC gross (net) Azeri Profit Tax Return (PTR). Keep up to date the manual;• Lead Group Financial Reporting (GFR) process and provide additional inputs for variance explanations. Provide required support for BP Segment Head Office charges correct allocation to region;• Contribute in implementation of a new Cash Basis Report in preparation of Profit Tax Return;• Contribute in implementation of Planning Management Information (PMI) Project;• Provide required support in New lease standard (IFRS 16) implementation in the region. Show less Responsibilities: • Manage, coach and develop the team to deliver the team’s peak performance; Areas of accountabilities: Offshore Base Operations / Reliability & Maintenance / Engineering / Logistics / Reservoir Development / IT&S and Wells;• Control over day to day procedures such as invoice proceeding, delegation of financial authorities, cost accounting and movements, risks and safety, people, due diligence, allocation of costs between PSA’s and in accordance with Annual Work Program and Budget lines and so on; • Management on effective business support including provision of accurate, reliable and timely actual Management Information reports with high quality quarter-on-quarter variance analysis; • Work with Budget Responsible Officers and Controllers to set up consistent and standardized reporting across all functions; • Operate robust value of work done and accruals process; • Ensure high quality support is provided to Accounting, Reporting & Control activities such as stats accounts, tax return analysis, etc. also to audits (E&Y, partner, etc.); • Continuous improvement on activities regarding new system implementations; • People motivation and task management; Compliance with Group Reporting Manual, IFRS and other policies in submission of financial reports and team deliveries;• Lead actualization part of Common Data Model project implementation. Building accurate mapping and master data attributes, upload templates and preparation of manuals. Show less Responsibilities: • Support Wells organization in cost reporting and performance management of its drilling activities. • Work closely with Wells Operations team on different cost management issues, preparation of forecasts, review of actual reports with variance analyses, verification of invoices and preparation of monthly accruals. • Support AFE and Well Reconciliation Finance analyst in preparation of wells Authority for Expenditure and analysis of actual vs. the planned spend; • Address requests from external and internal auditors and JV accounting and Group Accounts teams; • Budgeting and variance analysis; • Personnel and Overhead actual and budget finance related scope. Show less

  • Financial and Economic Modelling Advisor

    Nov 2023 - Jun 2024

  • Control & Assurance Advisor (Digital Transformation)

    Jan 2021 - Oct 2023

  • Finance Data Analyst (Digital Transformation)

    Dec 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Financial Reporting Analyst

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2018

  • General Accounting Team Leader

    Oct 2013 - Jan 2017

  • Finance Analyst (Wells)

    Sept 2012 - Oct 2013
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  State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR)

  Jul 2024 - now

  Advisor to Vice President at SOCAR