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With a taste for challenges, I make a short-term and lasting impact on high-stakes financial matters to achieve strategic objectives, by clarifying data and defining financial or operational organizations.
After more than 20 years of experience in financial management of SMEs and large groups with successful transformation and financial steering challenges, I offer SMEs and their leaders my skills as a part-time/transition CFO, as a Business Partner and Solver for the success of their financial and strategic projects with a results-oriented and rapid impact approach.
Areas of expertise
• Definition and implementation of financial and operational organizations and processes;
• Development of operational and financial steering (P&L, Cash-flow…);
• Planning: Business Plan (incl. M&A), Budget, modeling and structuring analyses;
• Definition & execution of finance IT transformations and performance steering;
• Management based on individual recognition and collective performance.
French
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Boulogne-Billancourt (up to 50km)
Experience
- SOGETRELBUSINESS UNIT CFO - REVENUE: €350MCIVIL ENGINEERINGDecember 2024 - December 2025 (1 year)• Member of the Management Committee – managing 25 employees including 3 Management Control managers.• Structuring of a financial, operational, and cash-flow KPI framework; acceleration of reporting cycles and data reliability for the Group.• Financial steering of €350M in revenue / €33M EBITDA, including 2 international subsidiaries (Belgium, Morocco) showing improvement (+€31M revenue / +1 point margin).• Budgetary and forecasting processes (budget, reforecast, 1–3 year business plan).• Activity cash-flow steering: one-third reduction in DSO+WIP cycle for small client accounts.• Definition and monitoring of the Finance IT transformation roadmap, including RFE pilot in 2025.• Contribution to structuring Group operations: LBO Due Diligence; restructuring work for the Belgian subsidiary and valuation for divestment.
- SFR BUSINESSFINANCE MANAGER – TELECOM B2B MANAGEMENT CONTROL - REVENUE: €1BNTELECOMMUNICATIONSJanuary 2017 - December 2024 (7 years and 11 months)• Restructuring and management of 5 financial controllers for a scope of €1BN in revenue.• B2B financial performance steering: leading business reviews, board presentations, action plan monitoring.• Responsibility for budget and reforecasts and associated action plans. 5-year Business Plan work and definition of B2B strategy.• Optimization of closing and reforecast processes (cycle reduced to D+4 from D+8).• Overhaul of the decision support system (datamarts, financial and operational KPIs).• Relations with statutory auditors, internal audits, and regulatory authorities.
- SFR BUSINESSSENIOR MANAGEMENT CONTROLLER THEN FINANCIAL CONTROLLER - REVENUE: €0.7BNTELECOMMUNICATIONSSeptember 2009 - January 2016 (6 years and 4 months)• Steering of closings, reporting, and budgetary processes for scopes up to €0.7BN in revenue.• Participation in major IT projects (billing systems, decision support tools).• Reduction of closing times (12 to 8 days) and B2B receivables from €125M to €80M.
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Education
- Specialized Master's Degree: Audit, Management Control, and Information SystemsSkema2001Mention Bien
- Master's Degree in Applied Economics: Management Control & AuditUniversité Dauphine2000