Paul Beecham
Senior financial translator
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
I work as an EN>FR in-house translator for Societe Generale Bank in Paris, specialising in foreign exchange and bond markets.
Having gained strong financial expertise over the last twelve years, I am now able to meet very tight deadlines - most documents are to be returned within the next hour - and deal with extremely large volumes - 10000 words every Thursday. I translate at a rate of 1000 words/hour using no CAT tools.
In parallel to my full-time job, I have worked as a freelance translator in various fields - pharmaceuticals, IT, aeronautics, political science - and done some English voice-over for a group of cardiologists.
I have a master's degree in translation and can work both from English into French and French into English, having dual nationality.
I'm open to job offers in my fields of expertise - whether translation or finance - and would like to join an international organisation or a larger bank.
Feel free to contact me.
Having gained strong financial expertise over the last twelve years, I am now able to meet very tight deadlines - most documents are to be returned within the next hour - and deal with extremely large volumes - 10000 words every Thursday. I translate at a rate of 1000 words/hour using no CAT tools.
In parallel to my full-time job, I have worked as a freelance translator in various fields - pharmaceuticals, IT, aeronautics, political science - and done some English voice-over for a group of cardiologists.
I have a master's degree in translation and can work both from English into French and French into English, having dual nationality.
I'm open to job offers in my fields of expertise - whether translation or finance - and would like to join an international organisation or a larger bank.
Feel free to contact me.
Senior financial translator
Société Générale (SGCIB)
Since June 1999
- Translation (EN>FR) of all documents written by SG Research's financial analysts, strategists and technical analysts and sent to the Company's Top Clients and Sales Team
- Translation of Dailies, Weeklies, PowerPoint slides, press releases (Moci, La Tribune and Agefi)
- Supervision of internal and external translations, proof-reading, editing for the Forex and Fixed-Income Translation Team
- Recruitment and training of both full-time and freelance translators
- Linguistic advice to Forex & Fixed-Income Strategists and Technical Analysts
- Terminology advice to the other translators in the team
- Development of a VBA-based automated translation software using a 32000-word financial glossary
- Translation of Euromoney Survey Questionnaires every year
Freelance Translator
Snecma
January 2002
to January 2004
- English technical editing (specifications, accounting, procurement, Websites)
Freelance Translator
Sciences Po
January 2003
to January 2003
- Translated "The Second Twentieth Century" into English, a 400-page book written by the director of the Science Po MBA.
Freelance Translator
CIO Magazine
January 2002
to January 2003
- Editing of French IT translations for CIO Magazine.
Freelance Translator
Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson
January 1996
to January 2002
- Medical translations (clinical trials on aspergillosis, cardiology, hypertension) from English into French
Freelance Translator
Sanofi-Synthélabo
January 1999
to January 1999
- Translation and English dubbing of cardiologists interviewed for the creation of CD-ROM distributed to other cardiologists as part of their professional training
Professional translator specialised in international affairs
Business English
DEUG Langues, Littératures, Civilisations Etrangères (LLCE)
Institut catholique de Paris
September 1996
English literature
- Financial markets (Forex, fixed income, commodities, corporate, credit)
- Economics
- Technical analysis
- Marketing authorization (MA) applications
- Cardiology
- Clinical trials
- Microsoft Office 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Visual Basic for Excel
- Photoshop
- Acrobat