Freelancer profile translated to English.
Back to original languageAbout Christèle
Are you a business owner who needs financial management without hiring a full-time employee?
I am an outsourced CFO with extensive experience in VSEs/SMEs in France and internationally. I help structure your finances and transform your numbers into concrete decision-making tools.
Many VSE/SME owners manage their businesses without a clear vision of their profitability, cash flow, or the levers that could truly improve their daily performance.
🔍 Your challenges:
• Lack of time
• Lack of tools
• Lack of internal skills
🎯 My Role: Transform numbers into effective decision-making tools.
🧮 Understand your margins, identify what generates profit and what costs, so that every action has a measurable impact.
📊 Implement simple tools to optimize your cash flow and manage your business.
💰 Improve your profitability by adjusting prices, controlling expenses, and prioritizing the most profitable activities.
Results:
💡 Better visibility for strategic decision-making
🚀 Strengthened financial health of your company
✔️ Controlled business management
Accustomed to working with business owners, I adapt to the practical realities of the companies I support: limited resources, high operational pressure, and the need for pragmatic solutions.
🎯 Approach:
• Clear and educational analysis
• Concrete and quickly applicable solutions
• Strategic vision
• Operational mastery
🛠 Tools: Advanced Excel, ERP, Accounting Software
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Conversational
Russian
Basic
Can work on-site
Gap (up to 50km), Marseille (up to 50km), Toulon (up to 50km), Nice (up to 50km), Grenoble (up to 50km)
Experience
- MMVHR Manager Hotel ClubTRAVEL AND TOURISMDecember 2023 - April 2024 (4 months)Bourg-Saint-Maurice, FranceHotel Club (Number of employees: 60)• Management of seasonal staff (Onboarding formalities, Contracts, Payroll data, Advances, End of contracts, Schedules and hour tracking).• Accounting management and monthly account review with variance analysis.• Team management and conflict resolution.
- ATELIER DU SAVONAdministrative and Financial ManagerFASHION AND COSMETICSOctober 2021 - December 2023 (2 years and 2 months)Draguignan, FranceArtisanal Soap Factory (Number of employees: 12)Highlights:• Support for new buyers during the transition phase in administrative, accounting, and operational aspects of the company (methodology transfer and team structuring).• Implementation of a new industry-specific ERP for production management (Cisa).• Validation of a significant subsidy package (for export development and production tool modernization).Financial Missions:• Develop the annual budget and control costs according to forecasts.• Prepare monthly financial reports and analyze variances.• Ensure follow-up of customer receivables and supplier payments.• Monitor cash flow situation to proactively propose solutions in case of tension or surplus.• Conduct continuous cost analysis to optimize performance.• Manage relationships with external service providers (Accounting firm, Insurance, Banks...).HR Missions:• Review of legal obligations (Postings, Registers, Collective agreement…).• Implementation of a training plan to enhance internal skills (Preparation of OPCO funding applications).• Drafting of the DUERP (Single Document for Workplace Risk Assessment).• Staff management (Contracts, Payroll data, Schedules for communication to the accounting firm).• Operational management of the production team (Production planning and daily performance monitoring).
- ThalasseoAdministrative and Financial ManagerTRAVEL AND TOURISMMarch 2019 - October 2021 (2 years and 7 months)Aix-en-Provence, FranceFrench leader in online Thalasso stay sales (Number of employees: 25)Highlights:• Change of CEO during tenure.• Adaptation of processes during the COVID crisis (Internal booking and stay postponement workflow, Partial unemployment, etc.).Financial Missions:• Develop the annual budget and control costs according to forecasts.• Prepare monthly financial reports and analyze variances.• Ensure follow-up of receivables and supplier payments.• Monitor cash flow situation to proactively propose solutions in case of tension or surplus.• Conduct continuous cost analysis to optimize performance.• Improve management tools and action plan for accounting software change (Sage X3).• Manage relationships with external service providers (Accounting firm, Insurance, Banks...).HR Missions:• Reorganization of the Accounting department: Training for external outsourced provider (Madagascar) for Supplier Invoice data entry, Recruitment of an apprentice internally.• Staff management (Contracts, Payroll data, Schedules for communication to the accounting firm).
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Education
- Master Grande Ecole, Specialization in Accounting/Management Control/Finance, Accounting and FinanceEM Strasbourg Business School - HEC Montréal2014Master Grande Ecole, Spécialité Comptabilité/Contrôle/Finance, Comptabilité et finance
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)University of Hertfordshire / EDHEC Business School2011Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)