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Description

My challenge is to support you in achieving your projects!

As an operational transition manager, I have often been described as someone capable of managing multiple files in line with financial management decisions (design, organize, implement, improve, control). To interact with clients, suppliers, and other company departments.

Throughout my career, I have encountered new organizational practices, both through internal changes involving the implementation of new external organizations that have transformed the way employees work in companies. For which I had to adapt quickly to support the teams in place, particularly the transfer of activities from financial departments to shared service centers (SSC) based in France or Europe.

To be quickly operational and adaptable on topics of job continuity, replacements, and bringing things up to date and catching up on delays (reducing errors, shortening processing times, task allocation) within accounting organizations.

I intervene in contexts: social redundancy plans, site closures, recovery, continuity, increased activity, and mergers and acquisitions, situations that are even more delicate for organizations with significant social impact.

I participate in the optimization of accounting services through recruitment, training, and the implementation of operating procedures, accounting rules, and procedure manuals.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km), Issy-les-Moulineaux (up to 50km), Boulogne-Billancourt (up to 50km), Brest (up to 100km), Lille (up to 100km)

Zadig&Voltaire
Transition Manager, Head of Retail Accounting
March 2025 - July 2025 (4 months)
Paris, France
Context:
Secure the annual closing, improve processes in a challenging environment.

Scope:
France and Europe - 500 employees - Luxury ready-to-wear, turnover €400 million.

- Supervision of 3 Retail Accountants (B2C);
- Management of 60 stores in France and 19 in Europe, including boutiques and outlets.
- Participation in annual and monthly closing by D+10;
- Respond to auditor requests in France and Europe;
- Monitoring and management of bank accounts: 512, 511, and 531;
- Creation and implementation of a suspense account tracking sheet for each entity;
- Control, monitoring, and reconciliation of bank statements in euros and foreign currencies;
- Participation in projects: launch of gift cards and Alma installment payments in 3 or 4 installments;
- Update of the Store Book for boutiques;
- Creation and implementation of a tracking report for unrecorded bank entries and pending items in reconciliations, for the accounting teams;
- Update of the bank account review for 180 banks (euros and foreign currencies);
- Import of Kyriba bank files into Sage;
- FR GAAP;
- Tools: SAGE and Office Suite.
Altitude Infra
Transition Manager, Head of Accounts Receivable
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
October 2024 - November 2024 (2 months)
Val-de-Reuil, France
Context:
Participation in the implementation of the Group's Shared Service Center (SSC) based in Val de Reuil, Normandy.

Scope:
France - 900 employees - Major player in fiber optic installation, turnover €1 billion.

Achievements:
- Supervision: 4 accounts receivable clerks, including a temporary employee;
- Collections management: portfolio of 35 entities;
- Design and implementation: procedure for managing doubtful debts, accompanied by a redesign of tracking tables;
- Development and deployment: implementation of operating procedures for recording collections in Sage X3 and intercompany re-invoicing;
- Facilitation: 14 workshops dedicated to skills transfer to the general and accounts payable accounting departments;
- Analysis and review of accounts receivable: aging balance and monitoring of doubtful debts, in collaboration with all stakeholders;
- Control, justification, and reconciliation of accounts receivable;
- Cleaning and justification of intercompany accounts;
- Management and resolution of all requests related to accounts receivable;
- FR GAAP;
- Volume: 40,000 invoices;
- Tools: SAGE X3 and Office Suite.

Results:
Within a tight deadline, team cohesion was achieved through close, proactive, and participatory management. Key issues were quickly identified, enabling effective action and the implementation of concrete initiatives, such as organizing 14 workshops dedicated to skills transfer to the accounts payable and general accounting departments.
SAINT GOBAIN
Transition Manager, Head of Accounts Receivable
CIVIL ENGINEERING
September 2023 - January 2024 (5 months)
Compiègne, France
Context:
Participation in the transfer of 13 business units to the Group SSC in Avignon, as part of a social redundancy plan and a particularly sensitive human context.

Scope:
Manufacturing of high-performance construction material solutions, turnover €51.2 billion.

Objectives:
Maintain the management of business units within the Compiègne SSC until the transfer to the Group SSC.

Achievements:
- Supervision: 5 accounts receivable clerks;
- Team re-motivation: Ensure the team's professionalism until the end of the transfer process;
- Anticipation of team departures: Identification of departure risks during the three transfer waves to compensate for departures or absences;
- Planning and organization of transfer workshops: Planning and organization of workshops for the transfer of files in coordination with the Group SSC;
- Improvement of the cash flow forecasting tracking sheet: Redesign of the cash flow sheet;
- Implementation of operating procedures for the Group SSC: Develop operating procedures adapted to the needs of the Group SSC;
- Alert point: Follow up with Group clients over 120 days for the Abrasives BU, account cleanup;
- Accounts receivable analysis: Monitoring of collections, non-payments, and disputes for all business units, control, justification, and reconciliation;
- Problem resolution: Respond to all requests related to accounts receivable;
- Participation in monthly and annual closing: Ensure the reliability of accounts and the smooth running of the factoring sale;
- FR GAAP and SOX;
- Tools: SAP and Office Suite.

Results:
Ability to operate in a complex transfer environment, demonstrating skills in leadership, planning, process improvement, and proactive management with a results-oriented approach.
Team supervision Planning and organization of transfer workshops Accounts receivable analysis Participation in monthly and annual closing