MARY JANE MONTEZA
St. Petersburg
Summary
Trading and Operation professional with robust experience in financial markets, risk management, and strategic decision-making in Oil and Gas Industry. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing market conditions. Skilled in data analysis, portfolio management, and leveraging market trends for optimal outcomes. Respected for reliability, efficiency, and results-driven mindset.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Oil and Gas Trader / Operation Manager
Basrah Energy FZE
11.2023 - 03.2025
- Ensuring trades are executed accurately, settled on time, and comply with regulations.
- Collaborating with shipping partners to ensure timely and cost-effective transportation of oil products.
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with counterparties, suppliers.
- Monitoring trade P&L, managing costs, and ensuring revenue maximization.
- Identifying areas for operational improvements, implementing best practices, and ensuring legal compliance.
- Assessing and mitigating operational risks.
- Established and supervising team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
- Developing and managing budgets, and forecasting financial performance.
- Maintaining accurate records of all trade-related activities.
- Effectively communicating with traders, finance, legal, and other relevant departments.
- Assessed hourly market conditions to look for hedge opportunities.
- Monitored market trends and developed strategies to capitalize on potential opportunities.
Oil and Gas Assistant Trader / Cargo Operation Coordinator
SAA Trading Refined Oil Products Abroad
10.2017 - 11.2023
- Facilitates deals between buyers and sellers on Oil & Products
- Experience within a Market Risk environment in an oil trading company
- Knowledge of financial hedging on Oil & Products
- Coordinate and communicate effectively with traders, affiliates, chartering, finance, demurrage, accounts and legal departments and Management
- Check and approve logistic/shipping invoices from storage companies, agents, inspectors, and other counterparties
- Monitor trades P&L, and all costs such as disbursement accounts, inspection, claims and re-invoicing
- Liaise between customer and management to ensure smooth operations delivery
- Coordinate with the loading terminal and the destination facility to ensure smooth loading and unloading operation
- Ensure compliance with company standards and procedures
- Identify problems in operations process and resolve them in quickly and timely manner
- Maintain clear and accurate operations documents/procedures for reference purposes
- Responsible for ensuring that Purchase Orders are raised and approved
- Process Provisional Invoice & Commercial Invoice on a timely basis
- Ensure compliance with company standards and procedures
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships through regular communications
- Follow standard operating procedures for efficient business operations
- Maintain and update company databases.
- Oversaw day-to-day operations of large teams across several sites.
- Provided direction and guidance to internal teams in order to achieve targets.
- Introduced new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time.
Procurement Officer
Parts Mechanica Worldwide LLC
11.2015 - 10.2017
- Process purchase requisitions / orders within purchasing authority
- Invite, assess, and award/recommend supplier tenders, bids, quotations, and proposals
- Establish and negotiate contract terms and conditions and maintain supplier relationships
- Prepare and maintain purchasing records and reports
- To prepare detailed forward plans of work commitments
- Devising and using fruitful procurement and sourcing strategies
- Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries
- Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers and clients
- Coordinates deliveries
- To carry out all duties of the post in accordance with agreed procurement practices.
- Set up and negotiated contracts to obtain favorable pricing and delivery structures.
Sales Coordinator
Vanilla UAE Limited, Free Zone
05.2013 - 10.2015
- Providing Daily, Weekly, Monthly Sales Report for the Outlet Stores
- Processing Daily Orders
- Sales Invoicing
- Receiving and processing Sales Returns
- Follow up Clients orders
- Providing/Coordinating Sales Promos for Outlet Stores
- Monitoring Deliveries as per Orders
- Receiving/Processing Customer Request Orders
- Maintain communication with warehouse staff to ensure proper order
- Review bills, invoices, and purchase orders
- Ensure all payments are processed on time
- Create packing lists and update shipment information in database
- Organize files both manually and electronically
- Coordinate deliveries for repaired or returned items.
- Improved productivity by increasing customer communication and responding to feedback.
Office Staff / Assistant Accounting Clerk
New Eagle Arrastre Services, Inc, A” Public Market Ormoc City
02.2011 - 03.2013
- Calculate monthly earnings, retain earnings, and prepare a balance sheet
- Liquidity, profitability, and sustainability
- Audits, and prepare financial records include payroll information, accounts payable, accounts receivable
- Maintaining accounting records and preparing accounts and management information.
Education
Certified Nursing Assistant W KDHA Certificate - Nursing Assistance
Strong Point Educational And Trading Institute
08.2021
COMPUTER BASE ACCOUNTANCY - Accounting And Finance
AMA Computer College
05.2010
Skills
- Commodity trading
- Economic forecasting
- Trading operations
- Compliance adherence
- Multitasking Abilities
- Critical thinking
- Team collaboration
- Team leadership
- Self-motivation
- Task prioritization
- Schedule management
- Time management abilities
- Market and Competitor Research
- Business Growth Initiatives
- Operations and Procedural Knowledge
Languages
English
Full Professional
TAGALOG
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
BISAYA
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Oil and Gas Trader / Operation Manager
Basrah Energy FZE
11.2023 - 03.2025
Oil and Gas Assistant Trader / Cargo Operation Coordinator
SAA Trading Refined Oil Products Abroad
10.2017 - 11.2023
Procurement Officer
Parts Mechanica Worldwide LLC
11.2015 - 10.2017
Sales Coordinator
Vanilla UAE Limited, Free Zone
05.2013 - 10.2015
Office Staff / Assistant Accounting Clerk
New Eagle Arrastre Services, Inc, A” Public Market Ormoc City
02.2011 - 03.2013
COMPUTER BASE ACCOUNTANCY - Accounting And Finance
AMA Computer College
Certified Nursing Assistant W KDHA Certificate - Nursing Assistance
Strong Point Educational And Trading Institute
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