Jacinth Smiley, Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer at LyondellBasell will be presenting at the upcoming Chief Financial Officer Summit!

marcus evans is proud to announce Jacinth Smiley, Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer at LyondellBasell as a speaker at the Chief Financial Officer Summit that will take place on May 9-11, 2019 at the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, Palm Beach, Florida.

Jacinth Smiley is an accomplished Senior Finance Executive and Certified Public Accountant with demonstrated leadership experience across multiple industries, including financial services and has worked throughout the USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia.  She lives the meaning of strategic business partner and seizes every opportunity to get intimate with the business, leveraging her breadth of expertise to drive growth, margin expansion and business effectiveness. She has gained significant experience in financial reporting, accounting, capital management, investor relations and international operations.  She has demonstrated her ability to be adaptable and agile, building businesses and teams from the ground up, restructuring poor performing segments leading and navigating through different cycles. Jacinth is boundary-less and truly enjoys interacting and working with all functions and levels of the organization. She is direct, decisive, passionate, prides herself on her drive and execution and is an inspirational leader.

Currently as Vice President & Chief Accounting Officer at LyondellBasell, a ~$50 billion enterprise value publicly-traded chemical company, Jacinth oversees the Accounting function, where she is spearheading efforts to transform the function into being a “trusted advisor”, embedding effective controls, re-tooling the processes and building a strong talent pipeline.  In addition, she is leading the Finance due diligence on a major transaction while integrating a recently acquired global business.

Previously, Jacinth spent twenty years with General Electric (GE) in different Finance roles across multiple industries.  In her most recent role with GE as Chief Financial Officer North America for GE Oil & Gas, a $10 billion revenue business, she partnered with the Chief Executive Officer to establish the Region, develop and execute the go-to-market strategy, assess monitor and restructure the commercial team based on sales effectiveness while implementing strong operating rhythm to drive rigor and intensity around delivering on financial targets.  Jacinth also brought her solid financial services background to bear in bringing creative financing solutions to customers to enable exclusive long-term equipment and services volume. She has held other senior financial and accounting roles within GE Capital and the GE industrial businesses, including Chief Financial Officer, Global Controller, Integration Leader, Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, and Transformation Leader.

At the upcoming CFO Summit, Jacinth will take part in a keynote panel discussion on Women in Finance. In recent years, issues of diversity and inclusion have been in the spotlight across industries from the business world to Hollywood. And while the broader D&I challenge is something all functions of businesses must begin to tackle, the elephant in the room for finance is, and continues to be, the lack of women representation – both in leadership and across all tiers of the department.

In a traditionally male dominated field, what steps can CFOs make to start to empower and develop female talent? What inherent biases exist in the recruitment and hiring process? And most importantly, why should finance leaders look at lack of diversity as a business-critical issue? This session will bring together a group of top finance executives to discuss a topic that too often, leaders shy away from. Join us as we have an honest, straightforward discussion on how we can begin to make strides in the diversity and women in finance and why it is every leader’s responsibility to begin ensuring steps are made in theright direction.

For more information on the CFO Summit please visit:

https://events.marcusevans-events.com/cfo-na-summit-2019/