Victor Cuellar

About Victor Cuellar

I’m a finance executive and CPA with over 20 years of experience supporting capital-intensive businesses through growth, integration, and inflection points across energy, midstream, and infrastructure. My career has largely been spent inside operating environments where financial rigor, judgment, and calm execution matter.Across that time, I’ve consistently worked at points of transformation—helping organizations translate complexity into structure. Earlier in my career, this meant building and scaling financial and operational infrastructure around growth: supporting acquisitions, integrations, and greenfield development. More recently, my focus has extended to balance sheet and capital structure transformation—partnering with leadership, lenders, and investors on liquidity, asset valuation, and financial realignment during periods of business inflection.I’ve built and led finance organizations that connect accounting accuracy with forward-looking insight—supporting executives, boards, lenders, and investors as they evaluate tradeoffs around capital allocation, liquidity, and enterprise value. Much of my experience has been in transaction-adjacent and post-integration settings, with exposure across the full lifecycle: acquisition, integration, build-out, scaling, refinancing, and exit.Today, I’m continuing to deepen that foundation through the Executive MBA program at Rice University, sharpening how I frame decisions under uncertainty and how finance can serve as a true operating partner—not just a reporting function. I’m especially interested in how disciplined financial systems enable better decisions long before outcomes appear in the financial statements. My recent MBA work has focused on applied problems at the intersection of capital allocation, operations, and risk—ranging from energy transition economics to early-stage ventures and large-scale operational failures.I thrive in environments that value judgment, transparency, and long-term thinking—particularly in infrastructure and other asset-intensive businesses navigating complexity, where finance is expected to inform decisions early, not simply explain results after the fact. I’m most effective in settings where operating realities, capital allocation, and financial reporting are tightly connected.I’ve found that the most meaningful connections tend to form through curiosity, shared perspective, and thoughtful conversation. Perspective tends to deepen over time, and the exchanges I value most are those grounded in mutual learning.

Experience

1. Vice President Corporate Controller

   Blackbuck Resources

   Jul 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Promoted to Vice President while continuing to oversee all accounting functions, including AP, AR, General Ledger, and Financial Reporting, for a PE-backed midstream operator. Directed the monthly close, internal controls, and financial statement preparation to ensure accuracy, transparency, and timely reporting to executives, lenders, and investors.Redesigned the monthly reporting package and standardized KPIs, aligning actuals with financial models and enhancing forecast accuracy. Developed analytical tools and dashboards used by leadership to evaluate operational performance and strengthen decision-making.Played a key role in strategic financing and restructuring assessments, preparing lender schedules, supporting due diligence, and providing financial analysis across multiple proposed capital structures. Contributed to the successful refinancing, improving liquidity and extending the company’s financial runway.Strengthened internal controls and audit readiness by right-sizing processes to match operational scale, reducing audit adjustments and cycle time. Improved cash visibility, forecasting capability, and coordination with external tax advisors, ensuring compliance across sales, state, and federal tax requirements.Supported asset divestiture efforts by preparing carve-out financials, developing working capital and purchase-price schedules, managing data room materials, and responding to buyer and lender due-diligence requests.Led technical accounting and impairment analysis for divestiture transactions, producing audit-ready documentation and ensuring financial reporting accurately reflected operational activity and commercial terms.

Education

• Rice Business

  Executive MBA

  2024 — 2026

• Houston Christian University

  Bachelors of Business Administration, Accounting and Business Administration

• Emlyon Business School

  The AI Nexus: Legal and Data Challenges