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Description

💼 CFO / Outsourced Management Controller – structuring, performance, steering

Do you need to structure your finance function, better steer your profitability, or secure your financial reporting? I act as an outsourced Chief Financial Officer or an independent management controller to support growing, transforming, or performance-seeking companies.

👉 My goal: to provide you with a reliable, clear, and decision-oriented finance function.

I work alongside executives, investment funds, or operational management to control finances, structure data, ensure forecast reliability, and make numbers speak.

🔧 What I offer:

Implementation or redesign of monthly reporting and steering dashboards

Budget preparation and monitoring, forecasts, 3-5 year plans

Analytical management control: by BU, by project, by cost center

Monitoring of working capital requirements, cash management, and cash flow forecasting

Structuring of accounting processes (inventory, purchasing, fixed assets, closings)

Preparation for fundraising, audits, or due diligence

Digitalization of the finance function: document management, workflow automation, collaborative tools

Coaching and upskilling of internal teams

🧩 I have supported companies in over 10 sectors, often in high growth or with fund ownership (LBO, growth capital). I have also intervened in restructuring, merger, or external growth contexts.

🎯 My clients: SMEs, mid-cap companies, scale-ups, training centers, e-commerce, construction, biotech, logistics, industry...

📍Based in Marseille, I operate throughout France and internationally.

🗣 French – Fluent English – Multi-subsidiary or international group environment.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Marseille (up to 50km)

PERFICIENTUR
Company Manager – Consultant
January 2017 - Today (9 years and 5 months)
Marseille, France
Outsourced financial management
• Sectors: Aeronautics, Logistics, Construction, E-commerce, Biotech/Medtech, Training Center, Nautical, Public Lighting, Public Procurement
• LOGISTICS:
◦ Transformation of an SME into a group: revenue growth from €8M to €20M / 1 parent company and 4 subsidiaries
◦ External growth: financial analysis / business plan / synergies / financing
◦ Legal transformation – LBO project management
◦ Operating margin growth: Operating income multiplied by 18 – Operating income rate: 1.47% => 13.52%
◦ Inventory management
◦ Digitalization of the finance function: digitization of supplier invoices / Electronic Document Management / cash management via EBICS solution
◦ Administrative contract management
• CONSTRUCTION:
◦ Growth management: revenue growth from €4M to €7M
◦ Working capital requirement management: customer payment financing / reduction of collection times, WCR reduction (-20%)
◦ Operating margin improvement (Operating Income): Operating Income multiplied by 2 – Operating Income rate: 2.8% => 3.5% / expense rationalization / HR reorganization / process implementation:
◦ Management control: implementation of reporting to improve margin control and proposals for improvement on management operations
• E-COMMERCE: Revenue = €40M
◦ Digitalization of the finance function: implementation of EDM
◦ Implementation of management control: margin analysis – budget management: improvement of gross margin (24% => 31%) and contribution margin (7.8% => 9.1%)
◦ Inventory management: improvement of stock turnover: stock turnover: 88 days => 70 days (-20%)
◦ External growth analysis
◦ Business valuation
Financial Analysis Cash Management WCR Optimization LBO Budget Forecast
AIX MARSEILLE METROPOLE
Financial Engineering Consulting Mission
March 2016 - September 2016 (6 months)
Marseille, France
• Definition of the financing plan for a road project: Boulevard Urbain Sud (€300M)
• Structuring of project debt
• Analysis of financial risks on the project
• Recommendations on financing and project structure
SCHLUMBERGER
Data Analyst / Reliability Engineer
January 2015 - September 2015 (8 months)
Houston, TX, USA
• Data management
• Data analysis with statistical and probability models
• Development of explosives reliability models
• Risk analysis and management