Paula Waggoner-Aguilar, CPA, MST

Energy CFO & CEO | CFO Services | Oil & Gas | Renewable Energy | Energy Services at The Energy CFO, LLC
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San Antonio, Texas, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Professional working proficiency

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Katie Mehnert

Paula is an A++ professional to have at your side. Having an experienced corporate and entrepreneurial CFO on the Advisory Board of Pink Petro (a private corporation) has been instrumental as the company has experienced triple digit growth in a short period of time. Paula's knowledge of finance and operations helped me navigate the company through key decisions in our early stages of growth.

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Paula conducted a financial analysis of our company and implemented a host of best practices which I found to be valuable. She demonstrated a high degree of expertise and her meetings were clear and immediately actionable. She was sensitive to personalities and positions. In addition, her style was open and inviting to questions (and expressed appreciation for them). Paula is extremely enthusiastic about her work which is infectious. I certainly would recommend her for any growing organization.

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Credentials

  • Spotlight Reporting - Forecasting Expert
    Spotlight Reporting
    Jun, 2023
    - Sep, 2024
  • Data Analytics Certificate - Core Concepts
    AICPA
    Oct, 2022
    - Sep, 2024
  • Predictive Analytics and Forecasting Certificate
    AICPA
    Nov, 2021
    - Sep, 2024
  • Data Visualization Certificate
    AICPA
    Feb, 2021
    - Sep, 2024
  • Spotlight Reporting Certification - Advanced
    Spotlight Reporting
    Dec, 2020
    - Sep, 2024
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
    Texas State Board of Public Accountancy
    Aug, 1999
    - Sep, 2024
  • QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor
    QuickBooks Online Professional
    Jul, 2019
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Energy CFO & CEO | CFO Services | Oil & Gas | Renewable Energy | Energy Services
      • Apr 2013 - Present

      As Managing Chief Financial Officer, I serve as an Outsourced CFO or Fractional CFO to our firm's clients. I help our clients accelerate their growth by providing strategic advice, developing financial strategy, creating ST/LT forecast financial models, preparing operating and capital budgets, identifying capital alternatives for financing growth, improving cash flow management, interpret financial and operational reports, provide pricing and job costing support, analyze sales and customer… Show more As Managing Chief Financial Officer, I serve as an Outsourced CFO or Fractional CFO to our firm's clients. I help our clients accelerate their growth by providing strategic advice, developing financial strategy, creating ST/LT forecast financial models, preparing operating and capital budgets, identifying capital alternatives for financing growth, improving cash flow management, interpret financial and operational reports, provide pricing and job costing support, analyze sales and customer data, offering solutions to improve productivity or mitigate risks, help reduce costs, implement governance, provide updates to the board of directors, coach/mentor controllers to step into the CFO role, make impactful technology decisions, prepare owners and their businesses for investors. My CFO accomplishments include helping clients’ scale and transform their businesses and navigate through challenging business cycles. Recently, I helped a pipelines service client increase their company’s cash flow +800% over a 12-month period by focusing on planning, bid pricing, managing cash flow, cost control and accounting. I have also conceived multiple opportunities to improve clients’ profit margin by more than 2% of sales. As CEO, my primary role is to grow the P&L for The Energy CFO. I manage all aspects of the marketing and sales pipeline, contracting, developing and delivering firm services and solutions, making smart technology investments, and attracting the right talent. My CEO accomplishments include growing The Energy CFO’s top line revenues >30% YOY in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and increasing the firm’s operating profit +20% YOY in 2020. Several initiatives contributed to these results including designing and prototyping new services like Virtual CFO Services (2017), early adoption of fintech for our operations and working remotely (2018-2019), launching The Healthcare CFO subsidiary (2019), and retained CFO searches for clients who successful outgrow our services. Show less As Managing Chief Financial Officer, I serve as an Outsourced CFO or Fractional CFO to our firm's clients. I help our clients accelerate their growth by providing strategic advice, developing financial strategy, creating ST/LT forecast financial models, preparing operating and capital budgets, identifying capital alternatives for financing growth, improving cash flow management, interpret financial and operational reports, provide pricing and job costing support, analyze sales and customer… Show more As Managing Chief Financial Officer, I serve as an Outsourced CFO or Fractional CFO to our firm's clients. I help our clients accelerate their growth by providing strategic advice, developing financial strategy, creating ST/LT forecast financial models, preparing operating and capital budgets, identifying capital alternatives for financing growth, improving cash flow management, interpret financial and operational reports, provide pricing and job costing support, analyze sales and customer data, offering solutions to improve productivity or mitigate risks, help reduce costs, implement governance, provide updates to the board of directors, coach/mentor controllers to step into the CFO role, make impactful technology decisions, prepare owners and their businesses for investors. My CFO accomplishments include helping clients’ scale and transform their businesses and navigate through challenging business cycles. Recently, I helped a pipelines service client increase their company’s cash flow +800% over a 12-month period by focusing on planning, bid pricing, managing cash flow, cost control and accounting. I have also conceived multiple opportunities to improve clients’ profit margin by more than 2% of sales. As CEO, my primary role is to grow the P&L for The Energy CFO. I manage all aspects of the marketing and sales pipeline, contracting, developing and delivering firm services and solutions, making smart technology investments, and attracting the right talent. My CEO accomplishments include growing The Energy CFO’s top line revenues >30% YOY in 2018, 2019, and 2020 and increasing the firm’s operating profit +20% YOY in 2020. Several initiatives contributed to these results including designing and prototyping new services like Virtual CFO Services (2017), early adoption of fintech for our operations and working remotely (2018-2019), launching The Healthcare CFO subsidiary (2019), and retained CFO searches for clients who successful outgrow our services. Show less

    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • Healthcare CFO & CEO | CFO Services | Life Science | Physician Practices | Biotech | Medical Devices
      • Jun 2019 - Present

      As Managing Healthcare CFO, I serve as one of our Fractional CFOs or Virtual CFOs to our firm's clients. I help physician practices and healthcare executives grow their business, increase their financial intelligence, accelerate their working capital, make informed decisions, and achieve their objectives for their organization. I accomplish this by offering many of the same services as I do for The Energy CFO (see parent heading). These include outsourced cfo services, physician medical cfo… Show more As Managing Healthcare CFO, I serve as one of our Fractional CFOs or Virtual CFOs to our firm's clients. I help physician practices and healthcare executives grow their business, increase their financial intelligence, accelerate their working capital, make informed decisions, and achieve their objectives for their organization. I accomplish this by offering many of the same services as I do for The Energy CFO (see parent heading). These include outsourced cfo services, physician medical cfo services, financial planning and analysis, cash flow management and forecasting, profit consulting, data analysis, strategic advisory and board advisory services. I began diversifying our CFO firm and my experience as a CFO into life sciences in 2015. Over the years, The Energy CFO helped executives of startups and established regenerative medicine, biomaterials, medical devices, and planning for biomanufacturing for companies in and around San Antonio, Texas. We/I liked the challenge, enjoyed learning, took advantage of the opportunity to apply our financial knowledge and leadership, and offered a “fresh set of eyes” from an industry that also has a great deal of coding, billing, R&D costs (which is exploring, developing, commercializing, and producing in energy), global supply chain issues, regulations, and finance/accounting complexity. In June 2019, I rebranded The Energy CFO’s life sciences business in conjunction with starting up and launching a new subsidiary, The Healthcare CFO. I prototyped, packaged and launched a new tech-enabled virtual cfo service for the Healthcare sector, our Physician CFO Service. I secured our first family practice client before launching the company. I used my existing firm’s knowhow, team, and our tech stack to make this service both unique and affordable. I also provided 100% financing. In the medical practice market, our goal is to help independently owned small physician practices achieve financial success and keep their doors open. Show less As Managing Healthcare CFO, I serve as one of our Fractional CFOs or Virtual CFOs to our firm's clients. I help physician practices and healthcare executives grow their business, increase their financial intelligence, accelerate their working capital, make informed decisions, and achieve their objectives for their organization. I accomplish this by offering many of the same services as I do for The Energy CFO (see parent heading). These include outsourced cfo services, physician medical cfo… Show more As Managing Healthcare CFO, I serve as one of our Fractional CFOs or Virtual CFOs to our firm's clients. I help physician practices and healthcare executives grow their business, increase their financial intelligence, accelerate their working capital, make informed decisions, and achieve their objectives for their organization. I accomplish this by offering many of the same services as I do for The Energy CFO (see parent heading). These include outsourced cfo services, physician medical cfo services, financial planning and analysis, cash flow management and forecasting, profit consulting, data analysis, strategic advisory and board advisory services. I began diversifying our CFO firm and my experience as a CFO into life sciences in 2015. Over the years, The Energy CFO helped executives of startups and established regenerative medicine, biomaterials, medical devices, and planning for biomanufacturing for companies in and around San Antonio, Texas. We/I liked the challenge, enjoyed learning, took advantage of the opportunity to apply our financial knowledge and leadership, and offered a “fresh set of eyes” from an industry that also has a great deal of coding, billing, R&D costs (which is exploring, developing, commercializing, and producing in energy), global supply chain issues, regulations, and finance/accounting complexity. In June 2019, I rebranded The Energy CFO’s life sciences business in conjunction with starting up and launching a new subsidiary, The Healthcare CFO. I prototyped, packaged and launched a new tech-enabled virtual cfo service for the Healthcare sector, our Physician CFO Service. I secured our first family practice client before launching the company. I used my existing firm’s knowhow, team, and our tech stack to make this service both unique and affordable. I also provided 100% financing. In the medical practice market, our goal is to help independently owned small physician practices achieve financial success and keep their doors open. Show less

    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Corporate Controller | Vertically Integrated Shale Gas Producer | Oilfield Services | Midstream
      • Apr 2012 - Apr 2013
    • Fractional CFO | Oil and Gas | Private Equity | Energy Software | Content Licensing
      • May 2011 - Mar 2012
    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Director Investor Relations and Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
      • Mar 2009 - Dec 2009
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Global Gas Marketing Planner | Gas Commercialization | Oil and Gas Projects
      • Jan 2008 - Mar 2009

    • Manager Commercial Review Petroleum | Upstream Oil & Gas Projects | LNG | Chemicals
      • Nov 2006 - Dec 2007

    • Global Finance Manager | Global Gas and Power | Natural Gas and LNG Projects
      • Jan 2006 - Nov 2006

    • United States
    • Renewable Energy Power Generation
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Vice President and Business Controller | LNG Chief Financial Officer
      • Feb 2001 - Dec 2005
    • United States
    • Utilities
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • International Accounting Project Manager Gas and Power | Latin America
      • 1999 - 2001
    • Interim CFO | International Gas and Power | EPC and Asset Management
      • 1998 - 1999
    • United States
    • Oil and Gas
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Internal Auditor - Latin America | Oil Field Services | Equipment Manufacturing
      • 1996 - 1998
    • China
    • Accounting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Tax Accountant | Financial Audits | Commercial Real Estate | REITs
      • 1995 - 1996

Education

  • University of North Texas
    Master of Science - MS
    1994 - 1995
  • Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
    1995 - 1995
  • The University of Texas at Arlington
    Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA
    1989 - 1994

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