Raven A. Rodriguez

Direct oversight of a dynamic multidisciplinary team of Accountants and Financial Analysts responsible for accounting operations of agency’s revenue, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, financial reporting, internal controls and audit review, budgetary accounting, and policy development and implementation.

• Provide technical oversight and financial guidance to executive leadership to enable strategic financial and tactical decisions ensuring the integrity of the agency’s financial position in accordance with existing laws, regulations, and financial guidelines. Anticipates effects of regulation and financial guideline changes to ensure agency’s reported revenues, liabilities and net position are compliant with applicable laws and accounting practices.
• Integral leading member of an internal financial management team receiving an unmodified opinion, without findings, of the annual FY 2023 Financial Statement Audit from KPMG.
• Review a variety of monthly reconciliations and general ledger processes to ensure financial statement accuracy and compliance.
• Develops and oversees implementation of accounting and reporting practices, procedures, and functionality improvements and enhancements into the agency’s PeopleSoft financial management system. Ensure robust monitoring of complex financial transactions and internal and external reporting requirements to achieve complete compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Serves as subject matter expert for researching, reviewing, analyzing, and reporting on agency’s obligation of cost programs (revenue), highly complex disbursement of appropriated funds transactions (accounts payable), operational accounting for asset processing, cash management, reporting and analysis, general ledger, systems development and analysis, and project management.
• Reviews agency Financial Statements, Agency Financial Report, and multiple reconciliations to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and validity of the agency’s financial position. Pursuant to the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA) ensures the agency has solid internal controls over financial reporting and the agency financial system accounting methodology is compliant with U.S. Standard General Ledger (USSGL) guidelines.
• Conduct comprehensive review and comparative analyses of cost submissions for twelve Other Federal Agency (OFA) costs to be recaptured for administering Part I of the Federal Power Act. Research, reviews, and validates required financial information from source documents into assigned financial systems within specified timeframes, reconciling any differences; appraises and confirms data integrity and consistency for conversion, processing, and reporting.
• Technical expert that creates, prepares, presents, and represents the Agency at the annual technical conference of the OFA analyses to internal senior officers and external energy industry attorneys, licensees, and staff.
• Review, analyze and interpret energy industry’s annual reports to enable the preparation and calculation of Oil, Gas, Electric and Hydropower annual charge revenue assessments totaling over $508M, enabling 100% appropriation offset.
• Develop policy with respect to accounting and financing program operations, determining accounting system adequacy and qualifying cooperating businesses and other aspects of related Commission programs.
• Led and developed team by providing leadership and guidance, performance management, setting and achieving key outcomes, providing ongoing training, and maintaining strong employee relationships.

Perform all aspects of financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and statement reporting to aid senior management with decision-making. Manage and develop financial management system operations, establish standards for accurate revenue and accounts receivable transactions, and enforce compliance with changes in federal legislation, policies and procedures.

• Establish revenue and accounts receivable transactions accurately in the financial accounting system. Reviews and analyzes financial management and ancillary support systems capabilities to determine their applicability to current and future operations. Identifies procedural and programmatic weaknesses or omissions and provide recommendations to initiate corrective actions.
• Plan and conduct comprehensive reviews and analyses of balances purported in the automated accounting system for their impact on the financial statements. The reviews encompass analyses of cash receipts, accounts receivable, revenue, and budgetary balances.
• Prepare year end revenue and receivable reports, updates to Commission rule makings and notices, including memoranda involving the application and interpretation of financial and accounting management procedures.
• Evaluate financial management controls for effectiveness and propriety; ensures compliance with internal financial management policy, external accounting policies and recommends and/or implements procedural changes to correct internal control deficiencies.