The stereotype of a financial or auditor is that he or she is "in the office" every day, doing all kinds of reports and analyses. However, Yu Meiping, the employee responsible for internal audit of Beiken Energy, is a person who does not follow the rules, he does not like "stay at the office", but likes "going out".
"My understanding of financial work is the centralization and summary of various business activities, reflecting the company's various business activities through the form of books and statements, and providing support and guarantee for business development." When Yu Meiping was the deputy general manager of finance of Beiken Energy and the financial manager of Southwest Company, he positioned his financial work in this way.
Now responsible for the company's internal audit work, he believes that internal audit needs to conduct independent and objective supervision, evaluation and suggestions on the company's financial revenue and expenditure, economic efficiency, internal control, risk management, etc., in order to promote the company to further improve the level of governance.
Based on his accurate positioning of the company's financial and audit work, the post-90s auditor believes that whether doing finance or audit, we can not only stay in front of the computer, but also need to go to the production line and various business departments to investigate, collect, discover and feedback real problems and data, and escort the company's fine management, analysis and decision-making.
Financial guy who likes to run the scene
"Do finance, only in-depth understanding of the company's main business, understand the production site, in order to better serve the company's business work." In the second month after joining Beiken Energy, Yu Meiping went to the construction site of Southwest Company for half a month to learn about the production and operation of the company's main business in detail. He said that if you are not familiar with the company's production site, there may be information asymmetry, resulting in deviations in financial data.
He gave an example, they found in the well team inventory, the same kind of mud material consumption, sometimes cost staff and mud engineers have some differences in the records, which requires the financial staff to verify the real situation, to avoid this information asymmetry caused by the data deviation, at the same time, but also to communicate and solve the problem.
"In particular, the accuracy of the data is particularly important in the assessment of individual Wells, because inaccurate cost and expenditure calculations may lead to deviations in the final assessment results." In 2023, Southwest Company began to implement a single well assessment system. By strictly calculating the cost and operating profit of a single well, the well crew with good cost control and high profit of a single well will be rewarded with a certain percentage to enhance the enthusiasm and initiative of the well crew, and thus improve the company's operating efficiency.
"As a financial person, I need to have a comprehensive understanding of the market, production, procurement, financing and other aspects of information to reduce the disconnect between finance and business." He said that only detailed and accurate data can provide a more accurate basis for the subsequent analysis, so as to provide the most accurate data reference for the company's various work, and ultimately provide a reliable basis for the scientific decision-making of the company's senior management.
From "authorities" to "bystanders"
In February 2023, Yu Meiping was transferred to become the head of internal audit at Beiken Energy. From the financial person to the auditor, the role has changed from "authority" to "spectator", but the same is his "going out", love communication characteristics.
After he took over the audit work of the company, the biggest challenge he faced was that the financial personnel of each subsidiary were not familiar with the work tasks and business operations of the company. At the same time, many financial personnel were not familiar with the audit business because they had not engaged in audit related work before.
To solve the problem that financial personnel are not familiar with the business of various departments of the company, it is still necessary to "go out" and have in-depth communication with marketing, production, procurement, personnel and other departments to understand the content of each sector, so as to lay a solid foundation for the audit work.
In this regard, Yu Meiping is also the first to follow the example. In the office, he communicates with purchasing, market development, human resources and other departments. At the job site, he communicates with the platform manager, cost officer and other key personnel about the site situation and requirements. In 2023, he led the audit team members to visit seven operation teams of Southwest Company and went to Shanxi to guide the internal audit work.
For the problem that financial personnel are not familiar with audit work, Yu Meiping standardized the audit work to improve the audit efficiency while rapidly improving the audit ability of financial personnel.
"Before the audit, we will make a detailed audit plan, break down the audit work list, list the audit data to be obtained, clarify the interview and inquiry objects, go to the site of the well team to understand what information, and follow up the audit data to determine where the implementation may be incomplete or unreasonable." In this way, he said, project team members who have not worked on the relevant work can get started quickly.
Not only that, Yu Meiping is also ready to make the standardized audit process into an Internal audit Work Guide, and make the audit work process, objectives, and content into a manual, so that everyone can understand it at a glance and use it immediately, and promote the company's internal audit work level and ability to continue to improve.
Postscript:
The realization of "integration of industry and finance" is a phased goal of financial management proposed by the leaders of joint stock companies in the past two years.
As a financial person, Yu Meiping led the finance Department of Southwest Company to initially achieve the goal of integrating industry and finance, continuously improving the timeliness and accuracy of Southwest Company's business analysis report, and providing financial data indicators for the management team of Southwest Company to make scientific decisions.
As an auditor, Yu Meiping improved the audit efficiency of internal audit work through standardization. Through internal audit, identify the defects existing in the business activities of secondary units and functional departments, promote their improvement and perfection, and help them control business risks and improve their management level.
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