Paul Symonds Email & Phone Number

Aberdeen, Gb

Houston, Texas, Us

Services finance business partner

Houston, Texas, Us

Oilfield Equipment - Services & OffshoreControllership business partner - revenue recognition review, deal review, compliance & S-OX reviews

Houston, Texas, Us

Oilfield Equipment - Subsea Equipment Projects & ServicesControllership business partner - revenue recognition review, deal review, compliance & S-OX reviews

Houston, Texas, Us

Global FP&A manager for Services and Offshore business unit within Oilfield Equipment at Baker Hughes.Supporting Services & Offshore CFO and business partneringLeading the current quarter operating profit / margins review (weekly)Quarterly financial performance reviewQuarterly financial planningBusiness performance analytics and support

Houston, Texas, Us

GE Oil & Gas: Subsea Services and Drilling / Baker Hughes (a GE Company): Oilfield EquipmentResponsible for:Leadership of Close & reporting for >15 legal entitiesFinancial controller of a legal entity with >$1bn T/ONear-shoring finance team to shared service centre & ongoing engagement/leadershipManaging the Statutory reporting process for all UK entitiesClosing and balance sheet reporting across business unitProject management of Hyperion implementationDriving Oracle ERP & financial reporting systems improvement/simplificationControllership simplification/transformation inititiatives

Boston, Ma, Us

GE International / Global Growth & Operations (GGO)Driving finance transformation projects, ERP process automation, simplification and standardization of corporate ledger & sub-ledger tools/processes. Working with global leaders on scalable solutions to simplify/automate processes.Providing financial analysis & support for Lean / Transformation / cost out initiatives.

Boston, Ma, Us

GE CorporateResponsible for driving Statutory & Tax filing compliance to GE policy. Supporting global policy training, communication and implementation. Leading regional project managers in CAP and Workout methodologies. Oversight of 9 global project managers. Project manager for Germany pilot (Frankfurt). Running CAP workouts / presenting at various GE sites (UK, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, India, China).

Boston, Ma, Us

GE Capital EMEA, Commercial Distribution Finance (Commercial Lending)SLT member of the Europe CDF leadership team responsible for oversight, goal setting and achievement for CDF EMEA, across Europe and participating in a joint venture in the Middle East. Providing robust financial leadership, setting and performance measuring against growth targets, driving cost consciousness and control, ensuring compliance to all internal and external commitments. Evaluating pricing decisions and supporting commercial decision-making. Leading a team comprising Accounting and FP&A.. Working cross functionally with Capital Markets, Legal, Regulatory, and technical accounting to ensure optimum entity structures and funding exist for the business unit and to facilitate growth.

Boston, Ma, Us

GE Capital / GE Commercial Finance / GE Capital SolutionsEurope FP&A Leader for Risk & Asset Management functions (Commercial Leasing &. Lending)Business finance partner:Responsible for driving improvement in:performance reporting (Financial)reviewing and challenging business plans (Planning)ensuring proper control and compliance (Compliance)commercial / business support (Commercial)Accountable for delivering insight and recommendations to drive financial and operational excellence at European level for the Asset management & Risk functions, delivering improvements in financial/reporting insight and improved financial accountability and control.Ensuring compliance with US GAAP requirements (FAS5, FAS13; FAS114, FAS144)

London , Gb

Managing the financial planning activity (short / mid and long term) of T-Mobile UK (Now EE), recommending initiatives to improve business performance and profitability. Managing a team of 6 senior finance and MBA level professionals. Preparation and delivery of forecast, budget and strategic financial plan information to senior management.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Leading the delivery of annual budgets and forecasts, 3 and 10 year plans, maintaining the business valuation modelling and reporting. Preparing strategic review (Goodwill impairment valuation) documentation and presenting this to the T-Mobile International management, and T-Mobile UK (now EE) directorate.

London, Gb

One of three European regional commercial finance managers, reporting to the Director of Financial Planning and Business Support. Managing a team of 10, two in continental Europe, responsible for the production of regional management information, budgets and forecasts, supporting the regional Finance Director and Managing Director, and providing regional information to the group function. Liasing and supporting local country controllers to standardise, co-ordinate and consolidate management reporting.

London, Gb

Managing a team of 3, responsible for reporting revenue and gross margin. Ensuring accurate reporting and control procedures were managed and maintained. Liaison with other departments to improve reporting process. This area encompasses very high data volumes, with tight deadlines. Stabilisation of revenue & margin reporting, working with credit control and operations to minimise revenue leakage and automate order to billing cycle.

London, Gb

Preparation of quarterly revenue forecasts (weekly); Analysis of revenue performance; Full year re-forecast (quarterly) Quarterly 12 month rolling business review; and 2002 budget preparation. Ad hoc reporting including revenue comparatives by business channel and analysis of revenue churn rates across the Corporate and Wholesale channels. Provide CFO with analytics on customer churn, booking to billing metrics and customer profitability.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Preparation of European forecasting and modelling in order to drive operational performance and decision support. Assisting in the preparation and review of the annual budget, and recommending on target setting. Analysis and interpretation of results, providing performance measurement using key metrics to European VP’s and US Controllers. Liaison with European financial controllers (France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, UK).Assistance in management of revenue recognition in line with US GAAP.

Houston, Texas, Us

(Pioneer concrete ltd acquired by Hanson Plc - 2000)Management accountant for UK Southern region.Preparation of monthly management reports, variance analysis (actual/budget), and Directorate reports.Consolidation and review of monthly forecasts. Monthly balance sheet reconciliations. Liaison with Senior Managers and Directors. Capex modelling using Discounted Cash Flow techniques. Assisting in Budget and 12 month rolling forecast preparation. Resolving operational reporting and process-flow issues. Finance Reporting SAP Super-user. Supervision of Assistant Accountant function.

Houston, Texas, Us

Consolidation of Financial Reports for Schlumberger subsidiaries (6 in total) In a shared service centre.Fixed Asset Review and Processing, CAPEX budget/expenditure tracking.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for the monthly financial reporting / monthly close processes for various oilfield services product lines & annual budget. Preparation and reporting of the Balance Sheet Notes / reconciliations. Inventory reporting and accounting. Preparation of Year-end financial reports on Assets/Liabilities.Finance manager for BP Forties JV project, Big Orange XVIII stimulation vessel, Drilling Fluids, Sand Control.

Uk And Ireland, Gb

Previously: French Jarvie MachargSpecialised in on-site accounting / spreadsheet automation advisory with clients and supporting Profit related bonus scheme calculations with audit partners

Acma; Cgma

Ll.M, Commercial Law Masters

Ba Hons 2.1, Legal & Administrative Studies

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