Job SummaryThis senior level individual-contributor role leads complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning Land, Division Orders, Accounting, IT, Data & Analytics and other business partners. The position serves as the primary Land business lead for SAP and other major system, data and process initiatives, translating operating requirements into coordinated project plans, decisions, business requirements and implementation outcomes.
The role is accountable for driving work across functional boundaries, identifying dependencies and risks, coordinating subject-matter experts, and ensuring solutions support integrated Land and Accounting processes.
Job Duties & Responsibilities- Lead Land's business participation in SAP implementation, conversion, integration and stabilization activities
- Lead projects that cross Land, Division Orders, Revenue Accounting, Joint Interest Billing, Accounts Payable and related Accounting functions
- Define project scope, business objectives, requirements, success measures, risks, dependencies and decision points
- Build and maintain integrated plans for business requirements, data readiness, testing, training, implementation and post-go-live support
- Facilitate process-design sessions with Land, Division Orders, Accounting, IT and implementation partners
- Document current-state and future-state processes, including system handoffs, ownership, controls and exception handling
- Coordinate Land subject-matter experts while maintaining overall accountability for project progress and business outcomes
- Translate detailed Land and Accounting requirements into language understood by technical teams and external implementation partners
- Lead data-conversion readiness, reconciliation, validation and business sign-off activities
- Oversee user acceptance testing, defect prioritization, resolution tracking and readiness reporting
- Identify upstream and downstream impacts when changes are proposed to Land, SAP or Accounting processes
- Ensure operational and control requirements are incorporated into system and process design
- Escalate decisions, risks, resource constraints and unresolved cross-functional issues to leadership
- Develop change-management, communication, training and adoption plans
- Coordinate hypercare, issue stabilization and transition to sustainable operational support
- Mentor less-experienced Land Business Analysts and establish reusable project-delivery practices
- Evaluate opportunities to improve processes through workflow automation, improved data integration and AI-enabled solutions
Job Specific Skills- Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional business or technology projects
- Strong knowledge of oil and gas Land processes and their connection to Division Orders and Accounting
- Ability to lead through influence across teams without direct reporting authority
- Experience with enterprise system implementations, data conversions, integrations or major process redesign
- Demonstrated ability to write business requirements, map processes and drive decisions
- Understanding of internal controls, data ownership, reconciliations and operational readiness
- Strong facilitation, executive communication and issue-resolution skills
- Working knowledge of SAP is strongly preferred
- Familiarity with Land systems, Snowflake, reporting platforms and integration concepts is beneficial
- Ability to balance detailed process analysis with broader project outcomes and timelines
EducationMinimum: Bachelor's degree - from accredited university - Energy Management or MIS
ExperienceMinimum: 8 years related work experience
Expand Energy Corporation's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore in the United States.
