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Description

Experienced Management Controller,I support SMEs and mid-sized companies in steering their economic performance: margin improvement, cost control, and cash security,...

My role: transform accounting and operational data into concrete decisions to help managers and CFOs effectively steer their profitability.

🔹 Areas of intervention:

• Budget and forecast development and monitoring

• Implementation of relevant reporting and dashboards (Excel / Power BI)

• Analysis of actual vs. forecast variances and recommendations for corrective actions

• Monitoring and improvement of margins by activity, product, or client

• Optimization of working capital requirements and cash flow monitoring

• Structuring management control in contexts of growth or reorganization

🔹My approach: pragmatic, results-oriented, and focused on value creation.

I work closely with finance teams as well as operational staff to make numbers speak and transform them into decision-making levers.

🔹Objective: provide a clear, reliable, and actionable vision of performance management to support your company's strategy and profitability.

🔹Tools: Advanced Excel, Power BI, ERP (Sage, SAP, etc.)

Sectors: industry, agri-food, B2B services

🔹Types of assignments: group reporting, budget construction, margin analysis, cash monitoring, and steering tool redesign.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Portuguese
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Dinan (up to 50km), Rennes (up to 20km), Saint-Brieuc (up to 20km)

Le Gouessant
Management Controller - Division
AGRICULTURE
February 2023 - Today (3 years and 6 months)
Lamballe, France
-Steering of multi-company management control: monitoring industrial and commercial performance for 4 entities in the nutrition division,

-Implementation and animation of industrial KPIs: monitoring production costs, variance analysis (yield, losses, raw materials), supporting site managers in decision-making.

-Budget and forecast construction

-Consolidated reporting & ad hoc analyses: creation of customized dashboards for the division's management and support for strategic decision-making.

-Participation in structuring projects:
New factory 2027 (€18 million): financial modeling, investment monitoring, future cost simulation.
Deployment of a new divisional ERP: business needs expression, reference data preparation, management data structuring.
Industrial Management Control Multi-company Consolidation Financial Modeling Budget Steering Advanced Excel
Lactalis
Management Controller
AGRICULTURE
September 2021 - February 2023 (1 year and 5 months)
Châteaubourg, France
Responsible for steering commercial and industrial performance for two companies in the group (agri-food sector).

-Steering results and performance analysis: monitoring margins, production costs, and price/mix/volume variances; highlighting profitability improvement levers for commercial and industrial management.

-Monthly results production and forecasts: P&L consolidation and validation, steering management meetings with sales teams, developing sales and margin forecasts in coordination with factories.

-Creation and automation of steering tools: design of weekly and monthly dashboards (sales, margins, productivity, ...), reducing reporting times and improving financial visibility.

-Budgetary support and commitment control: contribution to annual budget construction, variance monitoring, and supporting operational staff in cost control.

-Continuous improvement: simplification of information reporting processes and validation of data from the ERP, for efficiency and decision-making reliability.

=> Results: improved forecast quality (+ accuracy / - closing variances), time savings on weekly reports, and better understanding of commercial profitability for management.
Budget Steering Microsoft Excel KPI Dashboards Margin Analysis
ECONOCOM
Group Management Controller
DIGITAL AND IT
April 2019 - September 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Puteaux, France
Reporting to the Group Finance Department, I was responsible for consolidated performance steering and reporting coordination with subsidiaries.

-Consolidated financial reporting: monthly production and analysis of results for top management (sales, margin, EBIT), data validation, and highlighting significant variances.

-Coordination of closings and forecasts: managing the financial information reporting process from subsidiaries, data validation, and action plan monitoring.

-Process and tool optimization: participation in the redesign of group reporting and automation of analyses (Excel/Power BI), for time savings and reliability.

=> Results: reduced closing times, validated consolidated reporting, and improved management visibility of entity performance.
Advanced Excel Financial Reporting