FINANCE DIRECTOR - INTERNATIONAL FP&A BUSINESS PARTNER

CONTROLLING

CONSOLIDATION

TEAM BUILDING AND MANAGEMENT

MANAGE US AND EMEA SITES

(start-up company), market leader for custom made flexible solar panels

• Business and Finance Interim Manager, in charge to design and implement the Financial Structure and processes for the NEOM Water and Energy Utility Company
• Build Financial Business model for 10 years plan. Capex management, Budget and Forecast cycles, quarterly closing P&L and BS

: ITRON (listed Nasdaq) - Head of Financial Planning & Analysis - Paris

• business partner for the water & heat solutions division (550m$ revenue) and coordination with head quarters in United States, reporting to division president and to cfo; direct reports 5 business regional controllers located in Usa, Brazil, Singapore and France
• part of global water strategy development team to move from product focused entity to solutions and services entity; designed and supported the financial and business path for this change

Main achievements:

• implemented a global process, to consolidate and monitor the business performance for North America, Emea, Latin America and Asia Pacific with regional controllers, sales vp’s and president
• profitability analysis and modelling to improve margins: results achieved $10m or 250 basis points margin improvement throughout selling price increase to offset commodity cost increase and divestiture of $3m non core business
• capital expenditure management and analysis of key projects: roi, pay-back and cash flow analysis, $15m new capex managed per year
• implemented a KPI reporting system to monitor product development performance, growth, operational discipline and people oriented, dashboard with 26 KPIs reported monthly
• implemented a global variable compensation plan for sales to support strategy to pivot from hardware to services and solutions
• implemented Sales Force CRM, Oracle ERP and Power-Bi dashboards in coordination with IT and head quarters
• business development, screening and financial review for product developments projects, ten r&d projects revised each quarter. Business plan preparation for new product introduction, one major new product launch each quarter
• preparation of board presentations for strategy and financial analysis of water division on regular basis
• investors relations, working closely with investor relations manager to prepare quarterly earnings release information for analysts, attended at analyst conferences
• M&A and three LBO refinancing, several due diligences for targeted acquisitions, and successful acquistion and integration of start up company for software analytics business
• business development, Set-up legal entity, open sales office and manufacturing plant in China
• implemented Principal Operating Company and new transfer pricing policy to support tax planning in coordination with tax department
• preparation of IPO for listing in Euronext Growth stock market for Solbian Energie Alternative

directly reporting to the COO in charge to implement a global transformation program to standardize processes and products, reduce complexity, share systems and transform the way to do business
* reduction of manufacturing foot print, closure of 3 manufacturing plants in europe
* portfolio profitability analysis and optimization, $1bn revenue and related margin analyzed and recommendations provided to executives how to increase potential of growth, profitability and reduce complexity
* r&d spending and projects evaluation and rationalization, $95m spending analyzed across europe and over 300 projects; set of recommendations provided to executives to rationalize and improve value added from r&d function
* divestiture of non core businesses, target to close 3 non core activities, one successful deal closed for the sale of $5m business in Netherlands. Legal entity rationalization, achieved closure of 5 legal entities out of 45 actives
* attended the " human potential project " program, one year training on commitment based management together with 100 top managers of the company