Benjamin Lambert

10 subsidiaries, 8 countries, €130M turnover, 1,500 FTEs. I support IT service companies, engineering firms, and design offices in managing their financial performance.

WHAT I DO

— Reliable margin: production valuation, work remaining, FAE, consultant cost of sales, actual TACE, margin per project.

— Structured management: reporting by agency and BU, budget and forecast, workload and cash flow forecasts, accelerated closing deadlines (management control and accounting).

— Reaching the next level: post-acquisition integration, subsidiary setup, ERP migration, finance team setup or reinforcement, interim management.

WHAT I HAVE DONE

— Reduced closing deadlines across 10 entities, for both management control and accounting

— Improved margin by deploying management control tools for operational managers

— Recruited and trained 3 subsidiary financial managers and 4 management controllers

— Integrated an acquired subsidiary and supported the creation of a subsidiary in the United States

— Deployed an ERP (IFS) in an international multi-currency environment

IT SERVICE COMPANY ENVIRONMENT

Daily rates and consultant cost of sales, TACE and inter-company, direct staffing vs. fixed fee and revenue recognition based on progress, backlog and staffing plan, management of decentralized agencies, transfer pricing and intercompany flows.

Assignments from 5 days to 6 months, on a daily rate or fixed fee basis, on-site or remote. France and international.

Contact me if your reporting is late, if your reported margin doesn't match your cash flow, or if your finance team hasn't kept up with your growth.

In parallel, I run a company:

Bar, restaurant, and event venue — Val d'Erdre-Auxence (49)

since May 2026

Creation and launch of a hospitality business with dual seasonality: bar-restaurant and summer-season open-air venue operations, hall rental and private events during the winter season.

Monthly turnover: €30K excl. tax.

- Company formation: articles of association, registration, legal and financial structuring, banking and insurance relations

- Business plan, cash flow forecast, and financing plan

- Negotiation and contract management: lease, suppliers, service providers, operating licenses

- Monthly P&L and cash flow management since opening

- Design and development of a management intranet integrating all reporting and operational monitoring tools: activity dashboards, P&L, cash register, food cost, purchasing and inventory, staff planning and monitoring, HACCP records

- Monitoring of operating ratios: food cost and raw material cost per recipe, gross margin per product category, payroll and hourly productivity, working capital requirement seasonality

- Development of operational management tools: cash register, activity reporting, purchasing and inventory tracking

- Day-to-day administrative and accounting management, relations with the accounting firm, tax and social declarations

- Recruitment, employment contracts, scheduling, and payroll under the HCR collective agreement

- Compliance framework development: HACCP and sanitary control plan, ERP, mandatory postings, applicable labor law

- Team structuring and delegation of daily operations to a floor manager

March 2022 – February 2026

Scope: 10 subsidiaries — USA, Canada, Netherlands (2), United Kingdom, Germany (3), Romania, India. €130M turnover, 1,500 FTEs.

ACHIEVEMENTS

- Reduced closing deadlines for both management control and accounting: revised calendar, standardized submissions, automated consistency checks

- Improved margin by deploying management control tools for operational staff

- Recruited and trained 3 subsidiary financial managers and 4 management controllers; established and autonomously managed the management control team for the region

- Financial integration of an acquired subsidiary

- Supported the creation of a subsidiary in the United States and the opening of new branches

- Key contact for subsidiaries for the group's ERP deployment (IFS)

MANAGEMENT AND CONSOLIDATION

- Monthly and quarterly consolidation and reporting for the 10 subsidiaries: P&L, balance sheet, annual budget, and quarterly revisions

- Performance analyses and corrective actions on activity, billing, costs, margin, forecasts, and cash flow

- Development of activity KPIs and management reports

- Multi-currency environment and intercompany flows (re-invoicing, transfer pricing, offshore production centers)

- Synthesis and monthly communication of results to general management

- Functional coordination of Regional Financial Managers (RAF) and cross-functional financial missions

OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONTROL — SII TECHNOLOGIES (GERMANY)

- Monitoring and control of production valuation, FAEs, margins, and work remaining on projects

- Monthly reports, forecasts, budgets, and cash flow

- Cost analyses and activity KPIs

- Data reliability checks in the ERP