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Laurent Sarfati

Chief Financial Officer

€1,200/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Laurent

Previously an auditor in a large firm, I moved into Financial Management roles in demanding environments: luxury, international communications group, and then transition management within a creative agency undergoing acquisition.

Business Partner to teams, management, and shareholders, I combine financial expertise, a hands-on approach, and the ability to manage complex transformations.

My experiences have allowed me to develop strong interpersonal skills, as well as expertise in contractual negotiation, managing sensitive situations, and change management.

Key skills:
• Financial Management: budgets, group reporting, taxation, accounting up to balance sheet, managing tax audits (without recovery)
• Business & Performance: KPIs, client profitability, process optimization, key account contract negotiation
• Management: leadership of Finance, IT, and General Services departments (3 to 10 employees)
• Transformation: subsidiary mergers, supporting an acquisition through a Share Deal, CSR assessment (Ecovadis)
• HR: payroll, contracts, employee representative committee, HR monitoring
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ALTMANN+PARTNERS
    Transitional Chief Financial Officer
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    November 2024 - October 2025 (1 year)
    Paris, France
    • Implementation of a conciliation procedure via Share Deal:
    ◦ Management of the reconciliation with the AustraliaGad group
    ◦ Relations with judicial administrator, lawyers, and financial partners
    ◦ Negotiation with suppliers, banks, and administrations (CCSF)
    • Supervision of accounting, treasury management, and financing plan
    • Monitoring of client contracts and profitability indicators
    • Relations with the Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditors
    Acquisition Reporting Negotiation Accounting
  • CPH IMMOBILIER PARIS 15
    Real Estate Consultant and Team Leader
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    January 2021 - October 2024 (3 years and 10 months)
    Paris 15 Vaugirard, France
    • Business development and team leadership
    • Administrative and financial monitoring of the agency
    • Support for seller and buyer clients
    Property valuation
  • TBWA GROUPE (Omnicom)
    Chief Financial Officer
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    March 2000 - November 2018 (18 years and 9 months)
    Boulogne-Billancourt, France
    Role held successively in 3 subsidiaries: TBWA (2010 – Gross margin €18M (Revenue €40M) Gross margin €13M (Revenue €35M) Les Présidents Gross margin €10M (Revenue €20M)
    • Financial and budgetary management
    • Development and monitoring of budgets and group reporting
    • Implementation of dashboards and performance indicators (KPIs)
    • Supervision of accounting up to balance sheet and tax and social declarations
    • Relations with banks, statutory auditors, suppliers, and parent company
    • Management of finance, IT, and general services teams (3 to 10 people)
    • Negotiation of key account client contracts
    • Management of tax audits without recovery
    • Participation in subsidiary merger operations
    • Implementation of a CSR approach (Ecovadis platform)
    • Close collaboration with HR (payroll, contracts, employee representatives, health and safety committee)

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Education

  • Expert-comptable mémorialiste
    2012
    Expert-comptable mémorialiste
  • DSCG / DESCF
    12
    2012
    DSCG / DESCF

Certifications

  • Digitalization of the Finance Function (in progress)
    Université Dauphine
    2026

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