Jean Sébastien Marchal

Plug&Play finance manager, management control specialist with solid skills in information systems and the business environment.

Passionate about finding solutions and coaching teams, I offer my services, for example:

Interim management and transition management of financial direction:

✔ Coaching of management control and accounting teams

✔ Management of finance and accounting IT projects

✔ Organization of a management control department

✔ Audit of financial processes, information flow robotization

Leadership:

✔ In-depth profitability analyses, with identification of root causes

✔ Factual diagnoses and action plan proposals

✔ Identification of key KPIs

✔ Negotiation of key business model points (price, margin, etc.)

✔ Challenging the organization's status quo

✔ Promotion of innovative methods: zero base, creative process, SCORE

Finance:

✔ Detailed, multidimensional business plans over short and long terms, in partnership with business teams

✔ Creation of modeling and planning tools: sales, P&L, balance sheet, provisions, etc.

✔ Implementation and analysis of IFRS standards

✔ Management of inventory and logistics costs

✔ Design of cost and profit center allocation methodologies

💡 Any other financial challenge requiring complexity management, adaptability, and creativity

In my career, I had the opportunity to work for 12 years in the automotive industry, and to leave my mark by successfully completing transformation projects for management control and cost accounting methods and tools.

This playground was also a great place to conduct detailed analyses with many dimensions, all in international contexts, with high levels of variability and uncertainty.