Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

Alternatively Administrative and Financial Director and Treasury and Financing Director with over 20 years of experience in complex environments (LBO, multi-site, multi-entity, cash flow difficulties, strong growth, and turnaround). Expert in Performance, IT, cash management, working capital optimization, international banking relations, financial strategy, structuring, and change management. Proven experience in team management (up to 10 direct reports, 30 functional), primarily with revenues between €250M and €1200M.

Key Skills

• Finance & Treasury: Management, cash management, LBO, debt, factoring, cash-flow forecast, liquidity, interest rate and currency hedging

• Performance: Financial transformation, financial analysis, cost optimization, revenue, EBITDA, inventory, profitability by activity

• Management: Hierarchical and functional supervision, change management and support

• Systems & Tools: Automation, SAP, Sage, Kyriba, Diapason, VBA, SQL, Python

• Strategy: Structuring, working capital optimization, annual budget, budget control, rolling forecast, banking relations, negotiations, securitization

• Legal and social affairs

• Languages: Professional English (B2), German (basic)

Languages

English
Fluent
German
Basic
French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 10km), Nantes (up to 50km), Angers (up to 50km), Cholet (up to 40km), Montaigu (up to 40km)

Groupe ERI (BTP)
Group Treasury and Financing Director
January 2024 - July 2025 (1 year and 6 months)
• Implemented a unified payment approval process (6 → 1)
• Reduced the banking pool (12 → 4 banks)
• Dematerialized payment runs
• Quarterly forecasts from the 1st month
• Educated production teams on financial management
• Management: 2 direct reports, 5 functional
Structuring Education LBO Debt Negotiation
Serenest Entreprise (Restauration collective)
Group Treasury Director
January 2023 - January 2024 (1 year)
• Created the treasury department (new position)
• 3-month cash flow forecasts (rolling forecast)
• Improved working capital and customer collections
• Implemented fast payment methods (direct debit, credit card)
Via location
Treasury and Accounting Manager
February 2022 - September 2022 (7 months)
• Supervised monthly accounting closings and data consolidation each month
• Daily treasury management
• Management: 9 people