Honors and Awards
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Recognized by Aventine Hill Partners for Outstanding Performance in 2015.
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Member of the first US oil and gas company to search for oil in Laos.
Roland Aguilar
Project CFO | Senior Consultant
Roland Aguilar brings over 30 years of global and domestic finance and accounting experience to his clients. He is passionate about helping companies strengthen their financial and accounting processes. His expertise includes accounting, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), cash flow forecasting, running finance operations for foreign offices and international projects, monthly reporting and project accounting, general ledger and ERP systems, and oil and gas accounting (both revenue and joint interest billing). Roland graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Marketing (cum laude), obtaining a minor in Spanish, and completing a total of 30 hours in intermediate and advanced accounting.
By taking on new challenges, Roland has diversified his accounting background from that of his peers. On the operational side, he has extensive inventory and SKU tracking, COGS analysis and transfer pricing experience. In addition, fixed asset accounting, tax basis, and revenue management reporting (including Athena Health platform for clients). On the general ledger side, Roland has been sought out to support companies with accounting cleanup, intercompany cleanup, and consolidations. He is proud to be known for his meticulous nature and his internal/external clients have enjoyed solid deliverables like general ledger remapping across multiple databases, multiple currencies, languages, helping develop internal controls and document business processes.
Roland has worked for global and domestic Fortune 500 companies, high-net-worth individuals and private companies on domestic and international projects throughout his career. Roland's experiences include working for entrepreneurial companies like EOG and Hunt Oil (one of the largest privately-held companies in the US) and Enron International in the 1990s. He has also worked for international companies like the UK's Globeleq (power), the Dominican Republic's EGE Haina (power), OCI Solar Power, a Korean-owned renewable provider, and global driller, Tesco Drilling.
Though energy has been his core work, Roland has also worked in the biomedical industry with Acelity/KCI and medical devices, regenerative medicine, and biotechnology clients for The Energy CFO. He also has community affairs experience working for the City of Houston municipality.
Mentoring and Coaching
Helping Teams Excel
“Roland has a real gift for connecting with people and adapting to cultures quickly.”
Roland's technical and global expertise extends beyond advisory work. Throughout his career, he has been specifically engaged to mentor and coach client teams—including field supervisors, engineers, and accounting staff—in complex areas such as navigating ERP and reporting systems, financial planning and analysis, developing bottom-up budgets, transfer pricing, revenue recognition, tracking inventory, foreign currency translation issues, and US GAAP accounting. This hands-on training has been delivered to teams across diverse international locations, including Laos, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil, and Hungary.
Financial Modeling and Analysis
Roland is a modeling enthusiast who leverages the complexities of Excel and modern fintech tools to translate complex financial data into clear business insights. He specializes in creating budgets, forecasts, and custom dashboards that accelerate decision-making and improve the accuracy of financial and operational processes for our clients.
His experience is directly applicable to the life science and healthcare sectors. Roland develops tailored financial models to help clients determine the viability of new services, analyze profitability by physician or procedure, and assess the financial impact of changes in pricing or patient mix. Most recently, he leveraged pricing, cost, and purchasing data for a global medical device company to develop a custom dashboard for their world wide marketing team, providing actionable insights for tracking financial and non-financial perform
Budgeting and Cash Flow Forecasting
Roland's deep background in asset management and project accounting—including complex international projects—provides a rigorous foundation for financial planning. He excels at building robust, reliable bottom-up budgets and cash flow forecasts that are designed to make your annual plan a catalyst for growth. These plans serve as critical operational roadmaps, helping clients project cash needs, manage key milestones, and anticipate capital requirements.
Importantly, Roland actively manages these plans post-execution. This includes comparing actual performance against budgets and prior-year results, and then skillfully explaining variances to operating managers and senior leaders. This process ensures the executive team understands the root causes of financial results and can make immediate, corrective, and strategic decisions.
He provides executives and operating managers with detailed, forward-looking financial pictures, including pro forma financial statements, sales projections, detailed expense projections, capital budgets, and depreciation schedules. Roland leverages his experience managing complex, long-term asset forecasts—such as large intellectual patent property portfolios—to ensure your business planning is sophisticated, accurate, and scalable for sustained growth.