Directeur Financier

(International Partnership - Rev € 2 billion-90 countries)

(Rev € 450m – 45 Legal entities - 40 FTE at Corporate and 40 FTE in Regions)

• Finance management for French businesses (3.700 FTE in Audit, Accounting, Advisory, Tax, Legal, CSR)
  • 3 Departments in Paris: Accounting, Controlling, Treasury
  • Harmonisation of processes across the Regions (9) and Offices (37)
• Legal and Corporate Services
  • Legal support and General affairs
  • Production (Time sheets, Travel expenses), Planning and General Services Departments supervision
• Special projects
  • M&A
  • Synergies and Savings program for support functions - Real Estate review
  • Tax audit management

(Listed - Euronext) (Rev €4 billion – 4 countries) France & Sweden

Finance Transformation Director (Interim assignment) – PMO (Led 30 Workshops with 60 Managers)

• Organization and Responsibilities across Functions (France and Nordic countries)
• Hard close & Fast close projects - Change of Accounting and Reporting processes
• Support to France Finance and HR SSC (350 FTE) - IS improvements (Finance – Procurement – HR - Legal)
• Interaction with majority shareholder Ramsay Health Care (listed on Sydney Stock Exchange)

(Revenue € 300m - 22 countries – 70 FTE in scope)

• Finance management: Review of Accounting processes and Management accounts structure
• M&A: 3 acquisitions (UK, Germany, Poland) – Legal entities strike-off

(Revenue € 10 billion - 40 countries) France & Italy

South Europe Zone (Revenue € 250m –3 countries - 40 FTE in scope) Rome & Milan

• Support Functions (Finance-HR-Legal- IT/IS -Procurement) management in Italy, Spain and Romania
• International Chamber of Commerce international arbitration: local lead of legal procedures
• Negotiation with Italian authorities and UE: Calabria AR (€ 120m) and UE subsidies (POR - € 100m)

• Risks & Internal control :
  • Risk Committee
  • Risk mapping
  • SOX compliance
  • Corporate procedures and policies

Owned by Private Equity (Chequers Capital) (Revenue € 800m - Facilities in 16 countries: Europe - USA - Brazil)

• Organisation & Reporting tools : Implementation of reliable reporting process and rolling forecasts
• Internal audit : Design of formalised assessment (scope, work programmes, report templates, action plans

Software for digital TV (Revenue € 130m - 800 FTE - 4 companies (France, US, UK) & 2 Offices (China, Malaysia)

• Design of methods and tools (Budgets / Closing) - Implementation of a monthly reporting
• M&A (USA, UK) & Opening of Sales representation offices (Beijing and Kuala-Lumpur)

• General audits :
  • Industrial facilities
  • Trading and Rep. offices
  • Risks and Controls
• Specific audits :
  • Capex
  • Performance plan
  • Commercial organisation
  • Fx risk management
  • Scrap sale process

Revenue € 100m – 58 plants and 320 contracts – 600 FTE

• Closing process
• Improvement of Forecast process
• Implementation of a Contracts database