Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

CFO & Operations | CFO & COO | 8 years of experience

**Availability**: 3 days per week

**📍Location**: Paris and fully remote (occasional travel possible)

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I leverage my expertise to help entrepreneurs structure and grow their businesses. Here's what I offer to improve your financial and operational performance:

*Business plan developmentand budget creation tailored to your growth objectives.

*Fundraising(dilutive and non-dilutive).

**Cash flow management and working capital improvement**, to ensure better liquidity and optimize your financial resources.

*Implementation of clear reporting and key performance indicator (KPI) trackingto facilitate decision-making.

*Structuring of accounting datato streamline financial information flow and analyze actual performance.

*Performance analysis(products, customers, marketing, inventory) to highlight opportunities and areas for improvement.

**Process optimization and automation**: I collaborate closely with your teams to integrate no-code tools like Airtable, to increase efficiency and productivity.
**Operations management**: logistics, inventory management, ERP... I help you structure these functions for smooth operations.

With a strong ability to adapt, I am operational, business-oriented, and effective in automating recurring tasks. I am also particularly skilled at producing clear and accessible analyses, and making data visually understandable. I excel at transforming complex data into simple, actionable visual information to facilitate decision-making.

I am proficient in indicators specific toRetail, E-commerce, Marketing, and Customer Care.

Feel free to contact me to discuss your challenges!

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris 10e Arrondissement (up to 15km)

Luckia Power
Part-time CFO-COO
May 2021 - Today (5 years and 1 month)
Paris, France
With 8 years of experience as CFO/COO in small fashion brands, I now support women and men entrepreneurs in building their brands by structuring their companies:
Definition of business plans, budgets, cash flow management focusing on working capital improvement.
Structuring of reporting, monitoring of key indicators, performance analyses for informed decision-making.
Structuring of data and selection of tools adapted to needs.
Automation of key processes: creation of collection plans, tracking of prototypes, launch of production orders, delivery tracking, inventory management. Using no-code tools, particularly Airtable.
Operations: logistics, ERP...
Softr Airtable
PATINE Paris
Head of Finance & Operations
September 2021 - March 2024 (2 years and 6 months)
Paris, France
Patineis a responsible fashion brand for women created in 2017. The ambition ofPatineis to create a new model of fashion brand aligned with environmental and social challenges. This includes:
Pre-order sales allowing for the production of the right quantities of items and avoiding overstock.
Measurement of the environmental impact of each item through Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). These analyses measure CO2 production, water consumption, and pollution inherent in the production of items. The goal is to have an impact well below market averages.
Obtaining the status of a mission-driven company and B-CORP certification.
My responsibilities at **Patine**:

- Finance and Administration -
Orchestration of the brand's first fundraising round, closed in December 2021.
👉 **Dilutive: €700K raised**, including €600K from the Patine community via the ethical crowdfunding platform Lita.
👉 Non-dilutive: €450K raisedfrom banks (including BPI).
Structuring of the annual budget adapted to the pre-order business model.
Structuring of cash flow management and working capital optimization.
Management of accounting relations: review of accounts, cut-off, inventory valuation, closing validation.
Management of banking relations.
HR Management: payroll, recruitment, contracts...
- Management Control -
Monthly sales reporting by product category.
Monitoring of permanent product inventory and validation of restocks.
Customer analysis.
- Operational Performance -
Creation of various tools for the development and production department (tracking and validation of margins, product performance...).
- Other -
Management of B-CORP certification.
Search and negotiation forPatine'snew premises.
Monitoring of works and management of project financing (historical bank and BPI).
CFO Operational Excellence Airtable Notions Accounting KPI Performance Management Shopify Fundraising B Corp Reporting
ADRESSE
Head of Finance, Management Control & Operations
February 2017 - May 2021 (4 years and 3 months)
Paris, France
ADRESSEis the menswear ready-to-wear brand that favors movement.ADRESSEis:
A team of over 20 people.
1 e-commerce site (www.adresse.paris), 2 Parisian stores, and 1 corner in a 4-star hotel.
My responsibilities at **ADRESSE**:

- Financial Management -
Definition of the annual budget and monthly P&L monitoring.
Cash flow management and working capital optimization.
Management of accounting relations: review of accounts, validation of quarterly statements and closings.
Management of banking relations.
- Management Control -
Monitoring of monthly profitability and margin levels.
Monitoring of point-of-sale performance.
Monitoring of collection and different department performance.
- Operational Performance -
Creation of various tools for the purchasing and production department (tracking of production costs, product performance monitoring, financial review of collection plans...).
Creation of various tools for the stores (weekly reporting, cash control...).
Process improvement: logistics and flow monitoring, reception/invoicing...
Microsoft Excel Management Control Chief Financial Officer Accounting Data Visualization