Lance Baird
Commercially-focused, results-driven collaborative finance leader | FP&A, Operational Finance, Forecasting, M&A, Acquisition Integration and Due Diligence.
- Role
- Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at The Council on Recovery
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lance Baird
I am a commercially-minded finance leader who excels at change management, developing people and driving results. My experience is a broad mix of finance and accounting operations, strategic planning and M&A. My operational finance experience includes FP & A, accounting, reporting and treasury. I have 20 years of M&A, corporate development and valuation experience across multiple sectors including target screening, economic modeling, due diligence, integration/separation planning and execution, synergy assessment and capture, and operating model design.
Experience
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Nov 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Responsible for Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, IT, Facilities and Administration departments.
Education
University of St. Thomas
BA, Economics
1990 — 1991
SMU Cox School of Business
MBA, Finance
1997 — 1999
Skills
- Downstream Oil & Gas
- Energy
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Finance
- Petroleum
- Forecasting
- Project Finance
- Valuation
- Internal Controls
- Business Process Improvement
- Financial Analysis
- Risk Management
- Due Diligence
- Financial Modeling
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