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Houston, TX, US

Houston, TX, US

Regional CFO for Americas with responsibility for Payroll, Billing, AR, AP, Tax, Audit, Treasury and FP&A.

Houston, TX, US

Led implementation of OneStream, opening of Shared Service Center in Asia, and several process improvements.

Entrepreneurial venture focused on: founding and operating start-ups; investment in start-ups; commercial, finance, strategy consulting. Extensive valuation and assessment of opportunities. Implementation of opportunities required strategic planning, project management, process development, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing and legal activities.

London, England, GB

Promoted to this newly created role. Generated clear understanding of business performance (spend in $ billions) and insights to create further value. Cross-functional delivery of operational improvements, including savings of $76 million per annum in supply chain costs. Operational locations included Permian, Marcellus, Duvernay in North America and plays.

London, England, GB

Recruited to assume newly created role due to commercial acumen, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Implemented a new contract negotiation and management process in North and South America ($10’s of billions per annum). Drove the Eastern Canada Supply Strategic Review providing leadership, financial analysis and modeling.

London, England, GB

Recruited to role for leadership experience to manage the accounting and settlement of #2 natural gas and power marketing company in North America. Restructured multinational team of 38 raising the level of talent. Effectively managed the integration of 2 acquisitions that increased the organization by 25%. Successfully offshored 22 positions to a shared.

London, England, GB

Promoted to global role in a new organization responsible to ensure effective financial control. Responsible for all US businesses, and the global Trading business. Standardized global frameworks for trading, offer-to-cash and reporting. Led the change in process to a more risk based methodology for monitoring control effectiveness. This was incorporated.

London, England, GB

Recruited to identify, document and audit the SOX control framework, including leading activities for inventory, offer to cash and fixed assets for Shell’s global Chemical business (Houston, Rotterdam, Singapore).

London, England, GB

Promoted to manage P&L, strategic planning and general controllership of a $700 million net sales business unit. Successfully designed and implemented a forecasting model. Implemented new Global SAP for business unit.

Contributed to the development of key distributor strategy and best practices for key account management.