CFO Services Gas, LNG, and Energy Infrastructure
Custom Tailored Energy Finance Solutions
We custom-tailor our cfo solutions to fit your unique energy infrastructure project needs in a very complex oil and gas industry. We do this by taking a holistic view when constructing your processes and teams, as opposed to "cookie-cutter" approaches and solutions competitors offer. To get a better idea of what your scope of service might include, see these two examples below of more common services provided to growth companies and mature companies.
We make it easy for you to plug and play our services into your organization. We offer flexible service options that are designed to grow with you until such time when you truly need a full-time CFO. Our CFO Advisory Services includes a team of very experienced energy finance professionals and our services are designed to wrap around your accounting. Our services are delivered virtually (since 4Q 2017) and we utilize a remote Texas based workforce. Our firm utilizes cloud and automation tech stack along with specialized finance software to perform our analysis, 3-way rolling forecasts, and produce monthly management reports and dashboards. We also have experience with development and construction budgets, reconciling engineering forecasts, and modeling epc plans.
Not surprisingly, our custom solutions are often less expensive than other alternatives: executive search recruiters, staffing firms, CPA firms offering CFO services, other CFO advisory firms, independent contractors or CFOs, and management consultants.
Energy Infrastructure Projects
The Energy CFO® provides CFO Services, including financial modeling, to developers, operators, engineering and epc contractors of domestic and international energy and natural gas infrastructure and integrated LNG export projects (supply, production, refining, manufacturing, transport, distribution, etc.) destined for long term, spot, and/or commercial and industrial customers. For example:
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Energy LNG Gas Projects (United States)
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Energy Infrastructure
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Construction Projects
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Natural Gas Infrastructure and Gas Plants
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Upstream Oil and Gas Projects (onshore and offshore)
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Carbon Capture and Storage (CSS)
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Greenfield Oil and Gas Projects
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Brownfield and Energy Transition Projects
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Natural Gas Power Plants - See Downstream Energy
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US Natural Gas Exports
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LNG Export and LNG Import Terminals (Liquefaction or Regas)
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LNG Supply and Shipping
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Petroleum Export and Fuel Oil Terminals
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Methanol Fuel Projects
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Petrochemical Feedstock
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Engineering and Construction Companies
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Energy Services and Equipment Providers
When Only 10% to 20% Succeed, Your CFO Matters
"The Energy CFO's solution has saved our methanol energy development project a fortune and helped us scale quickly. We are going to save > $100,000 in project finance audit fees because the financial model is so organized and easy to follow."
International Energy Developer and Investment Banker
“We are more organized and confident at investor pitches. We know that our financial model and financial proformas have been vetted. We got a CFO that can answer tough questions. And we can reassure prospective investors that we have a reliable CFO Service Firm with the experience to help us scale our business."
Co-Founder of an Early Stage Upstream Oil and Gas Project
Why Outsource Your CFO Work
CFO Advisor | Fractional CFO | Financial Modeling
Hiring an outsourced CFO Advisor to help you manage your natural gas or LNG infrastructure and/or export project’s finances is a great way to strengthen and grow your business. For private companies, there are so many choices other than just hiring a full-time and part-time CFO. For example, a Fractional CFOs are outsourced cfos that are retained to work when you need them. Or maybe you want to limit CFO work to a special CFO Consulting project like financial modeling which is another form of outsourced cfo services we offer. Most of our services are virtual cfo services as most of your work can be completed remotely.
The first step is to understand how a CFO Advisor can help you. If you are not familiar with how outsourced cfo services can be used to strengthen your business, you may want to read our blog post about why oil and gas service companies are outsourcing cfo leadership.
If you are not familiar with the difference in the CFO vs. other financial roles such as Controller and/or Accountant, you may want to reference the following blog article first: What is a CFO And What Does A CFO Do? Generally speaking, a CFO helps strengthen your business by building on historical numbers produced by accounting and focusing on helping the CEO drive the company’s financial future.
Strategic Advisory For Projects and Facilities
We offer a range of strategic CFO advisory and consulting services tailored to fit your specific needs including:
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Business development budgets
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Critical thinking through business plans and structuring
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Strategic partnering
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Strategy guidance and strategic planning
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SWOT assessments
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Energy Infrastructure Financial Modeling
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Petrochemical Feedstock Financial Modeling
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Construction Budgets and Forecasts
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Risk management and mitigation
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Sales and marketing business plan
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Corporate Finance
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Asset or portfolio optimization
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Benchmarking competitors
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Organizational development
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Investment Decisions (BD, Organic, Asset Purchases, Joint Ventures, M&A)
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Capital structuring
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Preparing companies for sale
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Transaction Advisory Services
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Mergers and Acquisitions (“M&A”) Support
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Post Acquisition M&A Transition
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We Help You Develop Your Profit Playbook
And Build A Strong Financial Offense To Help Your Project Gain Momentum and Scale
Cash Forecasting
13 Week Cash Flow
Cash Planning Sources/Uses
Rolling Cash Forecasts
Development and Construction Costs
Financial Planning
Bottom up Budgets and Forecasts
Various Financial Models in Excel
Scenario Analysis
Finance back office and systems
Business Intelligence
Management Reports
Financial Reporting
3 Way Forecasting
KPI Dashboards
We Want Your Natural Gas Project To Thrive
Owning and running a private company is tough enough. Developing and funding a. Your least abundant resource is time and when you are growing - you never have enough cash. These are common growing pains we see clients struggling with:
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Owners are overrun with too many responsibilities - working and running the company.
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Unfamiliarity with what is going on with the financial health and the performance of their companies.
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Not getting relevant and impactful information they need to aid in decision making.
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Encountering growth resistance points and frustrated with an inability to make traction.
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Feeling something is off or there is a gap, but not exactly sure what "it" is.
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Not getting candid feedback, constructive guidance, or practical solutions to tackle problems.
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Dealing with gaps in organizational design and governance.
We have experience helping clients with these issues and much more. What we do is help you see the big picture and understand how the administrative and operational pieces of your business impact your profitability, cash flow, and/or hold back growth so you can take action.
Delivering Value To Energy Infrastructure Clients
Save Time and
Save Money
Outsource your CFO work to us and optimize your time. Our CFO Services are designed to save you time and find ways to save you money. You will still be in control, but you will get more done so your company can make more money
Understand Your Finances
We analyze your financial health, performance, and operation information and meet with you monthly to provide you with our analysis, insights, guidance, and recommendations. We will explain finance and accounting concepts you have questions about.
Make Informed
Bus. Decisions
Get timely and relevant business intelligence, scenario analysis, and financial advice to help you make informed decisions. We help identify and narrow down alternatives
based on your objectives.
Build Leader Confidence
We help maximize the Return on Investment on your money and sweat equity invested in your business. Our services not only help you increase your financial acumen, but also build confidence in your business leadership.
Transform Your Business
We help you strategize,
plan for growth, devise action plans, budget, forecast cash, create financial projections, secure debt/equity funding, pricing, costing, reduce costs, improve margins, & monitor performance.
Hire The Energy CFO
CFO LNG | CFO Gas Bio
CFO Construction
Paula Waggoner-Aguilar, CPA
Our CFO Firm
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The Energy CFO is a 9-year old CFO Advisory and Consulting Firm headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
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We are a small giant in our field and we specialize in helping entrepreneurial organizations.
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Most of our clients stay with us for a number of years.
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We are owned and run by an award-winning CFO/CPA and former Global Fortune 500 executive.
Our CFO Team
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Combined energy finance work experience of 100+ years.
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Strong business, strategic, operational, and financial acumen.
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Hard working independent critical thinkers.
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Worked for Fortune 500 and private companies across the energy value chain and around the globe.
Energy, CFO, and Business Awards
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NAWBO's prestigious "2019 Woman Business Owner of the Year".
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Business Journal's "Who's Who In Energy" for 3 consecutive years.
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Business Journal's 2014 "Best CFO for Private Companies".
Get Started Today - Its Easy!
1. Contact us to schedule an initial consultation.
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Complete our prospective client form or
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Leave us a voice mail or
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Email us directly
2. We have a Zoom listening session.
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Learn more about your company
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Understand your objectives: business, financial, and personal
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Assess whether our service is a good fit for your business
3. We will provide you with a service proposal and price quote.
4. Sign our service agreement and we are ready to begin.