Transition Accounts Receivable Manager

Les encaissements hebdomadaire du passif France Messageir et Presstais sont passés d'une moyenne de 70 800€ à 270 290€ grâce aux changements mis en place visant à améliorer les performances et la compétitivité de l'entreprise durant la restructuration/fusion.

London

• Developing and implementing Credit Control policies and procedures.
• Decrease DSO and bad debt provision
• Coaching the new team

London

• Helped the Finance dept. to turn the company cash positive within 2 months
• Increased the Cash collection by 40% in just 2 months
• Decreased DSO from 180 to 40 days within 6 months >3500 accounts
• Decreased churn rates by 40% by changing the processes
• Support global monthly RTB Financial Reporting – KPI
• Suggested and assisted the integration of CreditSafe into Saleforce in order to screen & monitor all accounts for bankruptcies, insolvencies and lower our exposure to credit risk
• Decreased bad debt provision (€12m > 540 days) by 50% by screening all dead accounts and negotiating Settlements of accounts with the remaining balance
• Managing third-party relationships including debt collection agencies and negotiating new rates

Paris

• Emergency 3 months' contract to assist the CFO managing AP & AR departments on site while looking for a new Finance Director.

Leeds

• Following the proven track record of achievements that exceeded goals in Masternaut France I was asked to pass on, coach, align the new credit processes across the organization

Paris

• Masternaut Group (€35 Million per year) required me to assess the French entity within a month in order to decide if the branch should closed, be relocated to UK & avoid bankruptcy.
• Managed the French entity to become cash positive within 5 months & exceeded UK results
• Created new team, new processes and policy
• Adjust contracts in order to bill all deliveries (creating an extra 2mil to be billed)
• Demonstrated ability to roll-up sleeves and work with team members in a hands-on management capacity
• Introduced Credit Check reports & credit limits in the system

• Credit Control specialist, Collections, Credit Manager - Senior Credit Controller – Transition - Manager - Consultation, Debt Management, Trainings, Creation & Relocation services.

London

• Managing a team of 5 credit controllers over the group of 16 entities reporting to the CFO
• Helped to integrate a newly acquired company and improved its DSO from 55% to 7% over 60 days within 4 months
• Decreased bad debts provision by 35%

London

Telecommunications Industry – www.interoute.com

• Group average collection per year = €445Mil - Coaching & supporting the Credit Managers across the group involving over 13 different entities worldwide (2012)
• Awarded “X Factor” employee 2011 from a diverse workforce
• Reduced DSO from 115 days to 45 days within 6 months
• Negotiated a worldwide new contracts saving over 40% ( up to £50K each year) in third party providers

London

• Specialising in the successful recovery of bad debts within the Finance and Telecom sectors

London

Telecommunications - (now Sybase) www.sybase.co.uk

• Responsible for managing the Credit Team and the consumer Sales Ledger for EMEA

London

• Defining, developing and implementing credit management policies and procedures.

London

Financial Market – www.bloomberg.com

• Supervising & coaching accounts receivable team of 10 with responsibility to hire and train new credit controllers
• In charge of $14M portfolio, reducing overdue balance over 60days from 10% to 1%, then maintaining stats at 0.40%

Market Research group – www.gfk.com

• Conducting in-depth pan-European studies, interviewing in French and Italian over the telephone and face-to-face

London

• Leading all aspects of Credit Control for French and Belgian companies

London

IT - www.Dell.com

• Efficiently co-ordinating debt collection policies, exclusively targeting government services.
• Recovering the equivalent to £1.8M in two months (invoices up to 4 years old)
• First-class problem solving skills