Job Description

Specific Responsibilities

The Accountant I for Apache Corporation will be a member of Apache’s Expenditure & JIB department at the company’s Houston office reporting to the Accounting Manager - Expenditure.

• Perform routine accounting functions and tasks related to Ad Valorem tax processing, research, and reconciliations.
• Assist with month-end close, including overhead postings and providing Ad Valorem variance analysis explanations and other internal control procedures timely.
• Prepare monthly journal entries and 3rd party manual billings.
• Assist with JIB AR reconciliation and cash applications.
• Handle routine responses related to the position for: owner inquiries, operational Asset Team inquiries, and internal & external audit requests.
• Contribute on team projects and ad hoc management requests.
• Work directly with operational Asset Teams, as well as other groups internal to Apache, to problem solve and provide guidance, as needed.

Qualifications & Experience

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Accounting; other field of study may be considered when combined with a minimum of 12 completed accounting hours.
• Entry level to 1+ years of general accounting or auditing experience in the oil and gas industry.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Word, Teams, Excel, and Outlook.
• Knowledge and experience in SAP preferred.
• Holding or actively pursuing CPA designation preferred
• Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache's business success.
• Appropriately handles accounting issues and problems that arise; referring to higher-level staff, as needed.
• Possesses a basic knowledge of subject matter.
• Able to work independently in a fast-paced environment and meet monthly deadlines.
• Able to think critically and analyze work performed to identify potential issues and anomalies.
• Able to work well in a team setting with consistent and professional interactions and approachability with team members.
• Possesses good communication (written and verbal), interpersonal, administrative, and organizational abilities.

Competencies

The successful candidate will lead by example through successfully demonstrating the following:

• Core Competencies:
  • Communication: Writes, speaks, and presents information effectively and persuasively across communication setting;
  • Results: Pursues work with energy, drive, and results orientation to positively impact Apache’s business success;
  • Collaboration: Works in partnership with others and encourages different perspectives, while building and maintaining trust; and
  • Culture: Willingness and ability to align one’s behavior with the needs, priorities, and goals of Apache.

• Leadership Competencies:
  • Servant Leadership: Inspires and enables performance excellence through feedback, empathy, development and empowerment;
  • Strategic Mindset: Applies business acumen to see the big picture, understand business issues, and exhibit financial stewardship;
  • Change Leadership: Inspires change by challenging the status quo, generating support, and executing improvement projects to achieve business outcomes; and
  • Leading Effective Teams: Enables performance excellence through effective structure, delegation, and motivation.

Company Overview

Our primary product is energy, and where there is affordable, abundant energy, people are healthier, have access to better education, and are given greater opportunities to elevate their families to higher standards of living.

Nearly 3 billion people — roughly one-third of the global population — live without electricity or without clean cooking facilities. We are committed to providing energy in innovative and more sustainable ways to help raise the standard of living for those living in energy poverty and to meet the ongoing demands of people and economies around the world.

The products we deliver power increasingly cleaner electricity across the globe, fuel tractors and trucks, make fertilizer to keep the world's food supply on the table, and heat our schools, hospitals and businesses.

Our employees bring a wide range of talents and skills to the job every day to tackle complex business challenges. We believe in providing a truly rewarding work environment supported by a benefits platform that ranks among the best in our peer group. Our company offers career development opportunities where employees can grow personally and professionally. We promote employee benefits that cultivate a family-friendly work environment and focus on our employees' overall well-being.

We are committed to being a workplace where all employees are valued and can thrive with a sense of belonging. Our commitment to non-discriminatory, equal employment opportunities benefits our individual employees, our company and our external stakeholders; we are better as an organization when various experiences, ideas, and perspectives are brought to the table.

Apache Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of APA Corporation (NASDAQ:APA). Apache has operations in the United States, Egypt's Western Desert and the United Kingdom's North Sea and a sister company with exploration opportunities offshore Suriname. Whether supporting Apache, APA Corporation or one of its subsidiaries, team members are employed by Apache Corporation.

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Apache Statement on Hiring

To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to base all employment-related decisions and actions exclusively on employment-related criteria. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to provide broad dissemination of job opportunities, as consistent with the nature of the positions. To provide genuine equal opportunity to all people, it is the policy of Apache Corporation and its subsidiaries to review its employment-related policies and actions on a regular basis to ensure that their application is consistent with their intent.

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