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Craig V. Peters, CPA

Email: cpeters89@ Cell: 480-250-9562

Summary

Over twenty years of accounting experience combined from public accounting positions in both Big Four and Small Market firms and Controllership positions with private and public companies ranging from $6M to $20B in annual revenues. Education and certification credentials include a Bachelor Degree in Accounting and CPA license.

Comprehensive experience and responsibilities across accounting, financial reporting and compliance, treasury, internal/external audit, tax, procurement and information technology functions. Core competencies include:

|Leadership – directing and managing record to report process |Managing the accounting closing process |

|Performance management and staff development |Systems integrations/migrations/implementations |

|Process mapping and improvement |Internal controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance |

Select Career Accomplishments

Led the merger integration of accounting personnel and systems for a Fortune 500 company (Western Refining Inc.’s acquisition of Northern Tier Energy)

Completed a 50 + point plan of acquisition integration of accounting personnel and systems for a Fortune 500 company (Western Refining Inc.’s acquisition of Giant Industries, Inc.)

Restructured accounting functions between multiple operating sites to achieve greater corporate control along with more local efficiencies

Completed integration of an small private business acquisition

Restructured and centralized the treasury process for all operating companies of a private company. Successfully negotiating a new $4.8M credit facility and implementing a uniform banking relationship across all entities

Brought financial statements in compliance with US GAAP and obtained a company’s first independently audited financial statement opinion

Developed a financial forecast model and prepared a three year business plan - helping achieve 120% of the plan goal for stakeholder value in the first year

Re-engineered numerous accounting and reporting processes to consistently achieve a closing and reporting deadline, reducing closing cycle times and improving controls

Designed or re-designed internal controls related to inventory control over rejected raw material, implementing daily reporting of rejects, decreasing supplier charge back time by more than one month

Created the standard cost method for inventory and COGS valuation along with the perpetual and physical inventory processes as part of implementing Syspro Impact Encore as the Company’s first ERP system

Created and implemented an aggressive A/R collection process reducing the DSO by 15%

Professional Experience

June 2017 – Present – Motiva Enterprises, LLC (A Saudi Aramco company) (Houston, Texas)

Independent oil refiner and marketer of refined products thru commercial, wholesale and retail channels. $20 Billion in annual revenue as a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Aramco concentrating in the Americas.

IT Manager – Finance Customer Business Solutions ( January 2018 – Present) – Lead IT application support and project delivery services for a portfolio of Finance business applications that include: SAP, Ariba, Kyriba, Avalara Zytax, PTMS, Onesource Sabrix, Corpsales, Blackline, Smartclose, Control Panel, PEGA 7, Teammate, Aris and Paragon

• Participating in a SAP ECC 6.0 to S4/Hana roadmap planning process

o Conducting S4/Hana platform education sessions partnered with SAP

• Developing the application support ways of working and service delivery methodologies with a team of 20+ on-site and offshore resources from a BPO application managed services provider

o Developed a Finance application portfolio monthly release management performance dashboard

• Leading Finance IT program delivery of 25 – 30 annual projects with an annual budget of $10 – 15 Million in spend

o Currently overseeing twelve in-flight projects with five project managers across Controllership, Tax, Credit, and Master Data functions related to financial reporting and consolidations, journal entry processing, sales/use tax compliance, application access, hydrocarbon inventory valuation and master data maintenance processes

o Successfully delivered six projects to date in 2018

Transformation and Business Integration Manager - Responsible for leading Finance process and technology transformation efforts cross functionally for Controllership, Treasury, BPA, Tax, Procurement, and Middleoffice (Trading Controls and Compliance, Risk and Credit) functions . Key system areas include SAP, RightAngle, SalesForce, Kyriba, Ariba, Emptoris, Paragon, Blackline, Pega.

• Leading an interface transformation effort for the simplification of AR/AP/GL data flows between RightAngle and SAP

• Partnering with the IT Project Management Office to develop/adopt Project Management protocols

• Co-managed the Enterprise Reporting & Analytics effort to deliver data warehouse and management reporting solutions

December 2007 – May 2017 - Western Refining, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona)

Independent oil refiner and marketer of refined products thru commercial, wholesale and retail channels plus fee based midstream logistics operations. $10 Billion in annual revenue with two public registrants: NYSE ticker symbols WNR, WNRL.

Corporate Controller - Responsible for Refining, Retail and Corporate accounting functions; functional group responsibilities include Accounting Operations; Accounts Payable, Settlement (hydrocarbon sales, purchases and exchange), Inventory (hydrocarbon and Retail stores), General Accounting, and Business Support with 125 direct and indirect reports located in four states. The General Accounting group is responsible for close and reconciling the general ledger with such areas as fixed assets, benefit, payroll, debt, derivatives, cash, stock compensation, equity investment, pensions and purchase accounting, inter-company accounting, inventory, related reconciliations consolidations and eliminations. The Business Support group provides, application support, master data management, and transaction KPI/KEI analysis services cross functionally to all areas involved with various accounting systems; JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Rapid Reports, Blackline, BNA, policyIQ, RightAngle, Concur, Avantis, Cass, CoStar, PDI Enterprise.

• Responsible for the monthly consolidated closing process

o Created a close cycle monitoring process to track and report percentage complete status during closing

• Managed the accounting organization thru a 50 + point multi-year acquisition transition plan integrating disparate legacy processes, systems and redundant or decentralized work groups

o Completed a chart of accounts conversion in JD Edwards

o Migrated two legacy ERP systems into JD Edwards for core financials; A/R, A/P, G/L

o Replaced Hyperion Enterprise with Rapid Reports for financial reporting and accounting data analytics

o Implemented Blackline Systems financial close suite; account reconciliations, task,

o Implemented OpenLink RightAngle to migrate three legacy settlement systems into one

o Reduced legacy headcount by 15 FTEs thru business process improvements, system integration efficiencies and centralization of accounting services

▪ Consolidated six legacy Accounts Payable groups into a Corporate shared services group

▪ Restructured the Settlement operations from a segment function to a Corporate shared services group

• Oversaw the annual Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 compliance effort

o Implemented policyIQ Governance, Risk and Compliance solution for improved compliance process efficiencies

o Streamlined control framework documentation through elimination of 40 process flow and RCM documents

• Improved the technical accounting function to include; structured transaction research, training programs, GAAP implementation oversight, and user library for company policies and position papers

o Participated in a U.S. GAAP versus IFRS assessment in anticipation of the U.S adopting IFRS

o Led implementation of ASU’s and organizing adoption of the new Revenue Recognition ASC 606

September 2006 – November 2007 - OEM Group of Companies: OEM Surplus, Inc., OEM Spares, Inc., Trillium SubFab Services, Inc. (Phoenix, Arizona)

$20 Million annual revenues supplier to the semi-conductor manufacturing industry, offering a range of business lines including distribution of parts for OEM equipment, Fab equipment repair services and refurbishment and sale of used capital equipment.

Chief Financial Officer - Responsible for leadership of all corporate administration: finance, accounting, treasury, human resources, information technology and office administration centralized in Phoenix, AZ with operation sites in Austin, TX and Portland, OR).

June 2004 – August 2006 - Ernst & Young, LLP (Phoenix, Arizona)

$14 Billion annual revenues professional services firm offering a range of services including accounting and auditing, tax reporting and operations, tax advisory, business risk services, technology and security risk services.

Manager, Business Risk Services - Responsible for planning and executing various client engagements in the Oil and Gas and Health Sciences Industries. Engagements primarily consisted of internal audit outsource or co-source arrangements such as risk assessment, audit plan development, audit execution, operational process audits as well as Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance support.

June 2001- June 2004 - CreaMiser Products Corporation (Phoenix, Arizona)

$6 Million annual revenues privately held beverage dispensing product manufacturer and beverage packaging distributor with points of distribution touching all 48 contiguous states in the U.S.

Controller promoted to Chief Financial Officer/VP of Finance & Purchasing - Responsible for leading finance, accounting, budgeting, tax, treasury, audit, purchasing, and human resources functions.

April 2000–April 2001 - Polynorm Automotive North America, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan)

$50 Million annual revenues U.S. metal parts manufacture subsidiary of a $500 Million annual revenues international company publicly traded on the Amsterdam Exchange processing approximately 100M class B and C parts annually.

Controller - Responsible for managing the finance, accounting, payroll, audit and treasury functions for U.S. operations that included three plants in Michigan. U.S. subsidiary reported locally in U.S. GAAP and in Dutch GAAP for parent company reporting.

March 1998–April 2000 - American Mailers, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan)

$20 Million annual revenues privately held direct mail services company processing approximately 400M mail pieces annually in two plants in Michigan and Illinois.

Controller - Responsible for leading the finance, accounting, treasury, purchasing, and human resources functions for three separate corporate entities.

September 1995-March 1998 - Gary L. Figurski, P.C./American Express Tax & Business Services, Inc. (Detroit, Michigan)

Public accounting with concentration in compilation, review, tax and audit services for small business clients.

Staff Accountant promoted to Senior Accountant - Responsible for numerous clients in a broad range of industries including; service, retail, manufacturing, wholesale, vending, construction and professional services with annual revenues ranging from $0.5M – 20M. Prepared monthly financial statement compilations, tax filings; corporate, partnership and individual income tax, property, sales and use and payroll

Education:

Obtained a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree in December 1994 from Walsh College of Accountancy in Troy, Michigan, earning Honors Distinction with a 3.52 GPA on a 4.0 scale

Professional Credentials:

Received a Michigan CPA license (September 1997) after successfully passing all four parts of the uniform CPA examination on my first attempt (November 1996). Obtained an Arizona CPA license (April 2005).

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