About François
- **Strategic Business Plan (5 years)**: Development of a comprehensive financial model (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet) aligned with your objectives, with flexible parameterization for "what-if" analyses and integration for actual tracking. A robust tool for decision-making and investor communication.
- **Annual Budget Process**: Facilitating the definition of the target P&L with management, structuring the "bottom-up" data collection from teams, coordinating steps, and rigorous consolidation for an operational N+1 budget.
- **Fundraising Support (Seed, Series A+, Debt)**: Process management (investor, investment bank interface), preparation of key documents (Teaser, Info Memo, Financial Due Diligence).
- **Strategic Financial Consulting**: Expertise in Restructuring (strategic pivot, cost/margin optimization), identification of essential KPIs, structuring finance teams for growth, cash management and financing solutions, selection and implementation of financial tools.
French
Native or bilingual
English
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Experience
- GojobChief Financial OfficerHUMAN RESOURCESDecember 2021 - Today (4 years and 6 months)Paris, FranceGojob is an impact company, a member of French Tech 120 (a government support program for the 120 highest-performing French startups)-> Scope (France & USA): Financing, accounting, management control & investor relations, credit/cash management, Finance Data.-> Recruitment and then management of about ten people to scale the finance team-> Participation in several fundraising rounds: drafting Info Memo with the investment bank, managing due diligence and related Q&A sessions, etc.
- YOUNITEDManager - StrategyBANKING AND INSURANCEDecember 2020 - December 2021 (1 year)Paris, FranceYounited is a French unicorn, listed on the Paris stock exchange since January 2025-> Preparation and presentation of ad hoc reports (financial and strategic analyses) for top management and shareholders (including BPI France, Goldman Sachs, Bridgepoint, and Eurazeo).-> Full management of the 3-year financial planning process in direct collaboration with the co-founders, country CEOs (5 countries), CFO & CTO.-> Participation in due diligence work for a fundraising round ($170m).
- PwC AdvisoryManager - Mergers & Acquisitions / Transaction ServicesCONSULTING AND AUDITSMay 2018 - December 2020 (2 years and 7 months)Paris, France-> Execution of +25 financial due diligence projects for investment funds and corporates in an international context-> Analysis and restatement of target company's financial history: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and KPIs.-> Preparation of aggregates for company valuation: recurring result (normalized EBITDA), Net Debt / Equity, normalized Working Capital.-> Critical review of business plans (P&L and projected Cash Flows)-> Supervision and training of junior staff (teams of 2 to 4 people).
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Education
- Master in Corporate Finance (Grande École program)Neoma Business School2015
- CFA Level 1CFA Institute2017