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Rémi Lestavel

Chartered accountant | Outsourced CFO

€850/day
Lille, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Rémi

I have been a chartered accountant for 10 years, passionate about supporting business leaders and driven by a modern vision of consulting.
After 9 years of experience in a renowned firm, I chose to rethink business support by placing responsiveness and proximity at the heart of my approach.
I support SME leaders at every stage with a dual approach: the rigor of accounting expertise and an economic and strategic vision focused on performance. Thanks to my technical skills, I cover both daily management (accounting, cash flow, invoicing, regulatory monitoring) and advanced financial management (profitability optimization, working capital management, financing, fundraising).

My commitment is simple: to provide precise advice, responsive follow-up, and tailor-made solutions to secure business activities and stimulate company growth. My goal is to bring clarity, efficiency, and peace of mind so that you can fully concentrate on what truly matters: the development of your business.

Thanks to my skills, I am involved in:

✔️ Traditional accounting expertise missions,
✔️ Complete or partial outsourcing of the finance function,
✔️ Structuring and automating accounting processes,
✔️ Implementing KPIs and dashboards
✔️ Cash flow management and working capital optimization,
✔️ Profitability analysis, management control, and strategic recommendations,
✔️ External growth, transfer, or fundraising operations,
✔️ The leader's asset management.

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Lille (up to 30km), Dunkerque (up to 10km)

Experience

  • OPTEAM ADVISORY
    Chartered Accountant Partner
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    April 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)
    Lille, France
    💡OPTEAM ADVISORY was born from a strong conviction: SME leaders deserve responsive, committed, and strategic support.
    With my partner Pierre, we co-founded this firm after several years of joint experience. This project is the result of our shared vision for supporting SME leaders: that of an accounting firm that goes far beyond the numbers through responsive, strategic, and close support.

    📁 Our ambition: to rethink the role of the chartered accountant to become a true management partner, capable of meeting daily needs while helping to gain perspective.
    We combine accounting rigor with economic vision to support SMEs at every stage of their development. We cover all financial challenges with a tailor-made, digital, and human approach.

    Thanks to our complementary skills, we are involved in:

    ✔️ Traditional missions,
    ✔️ Complete or partial outsourcing of the finance function,
    ✔️ Structuring and automating accounting processes,
    ✔️ Implementing KPIs and dashboards
    ✔️ Cash flow management and working capital optimization,
    ✔️ Profitability analysis, management control, and strategic recommendations,
    ✔️ External growth, transfer, or fundraising operations,
    ✔️ The leader's asset management.

    🔍 Our expertise is structured around 3 pillars:
    ✅ Strategy-oriented expertise: management control, KPIs, business plans, profitability, fundraising, audits
    ✅ Real proximity to leaders: daily support, responsiveness, commitment to proximity.
    ✅ Tailor-made solutions: outsourcing of the finance function, digital tools, interactive dashboards, automated processes.

    🧭 OPTEAM ADVISORY is an agile, modern firm, grounded in the reality of SMEs. Our goal is simple: to bring clarity, efficiency, and peace of mind.
    Leadership Support Finance Microsoft Power BI Management Control CFO
  • Pansard et Associés
    Chartered Accountant - Manager of the Accounting Expertise Department
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    December 2015 - November 2024 (8 years and 11 months)
    Lille, France
    🔍 My experience at the firm Pansard et Associés marked a key stage in my career, broadening my perspectives and confronting me with high-stakes issues.
    As a legal audit referent, I strengthened my technical expertise while discovering a clientele composed exclusively of SMEs with varied and strategic needs.

    📁 I had the opportunity to lead a wide variety of high-value-added missions:

    • Decentralization of the finance function, supporting leaders in the daily management of administrative and financial tasks,
    • Implementation of management tools, by defining relevant KPIs and identifying areas for improvement,
    • Management control, through the analysis of profitability areas and the formulation of recommendations to optimize performance,
    • Financial management and cash flow management, through the creation of tailor-made dashboards and real-time monitoring of cash flows and working capital,
    • Turnaround missions, supporting companies in difficulty in stabilizing their financial situation,
    • Business valuations, particularly in transfer contexts,
    • M&A operations, mainly on the buyer's side, with strong involvement in the financial and strategic analysis of targets.

    👥 In parallel, I managed operational teams, supervising, training, and motivating employees towards common goals.
    This responsibility allowed me to develop a true managerial dimension, ensuring the skill development of the teams, the fluidity of coordination, and the quality of deliverables in contexts that were sometimes demanding in terms of deadlines and technicality.
  • SECD
    Chartered Accountant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    November 2008 - November 2015 (7 years)
    Dunkerque, France
    🔹 At the firm SECD, where I worked from 2008 to 2015, I had the opportunity to consolidate my skills and demonstrate my ability to independently manage a portfolio of over 70 clients.
    This portfolio covered a wide range of clients: small and medium-sized businesses in various sectors, liberal professions (BNC), and SCI (civil real estate companies) in particular.

    🎯 This diversity allowed me to develop great versatility and rigor, strengthen my autonomy, and quickly adapt to the specificities of each client.

    📁 Each mission was an opportunity to expand my accounting, tax, and relational knowledge—continuous learning that allowed me to build a solid foundation and provide real added value while maintaining a close relationship with clients.
    This experience not only allowed me to quickly improve my skills but also to understand the importance of agility, listening, and personalized advice in our profession.

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Education

  • Diploma of Chartered Accountancy
    Ordre des experts comptables
    2015
  • DSCG (Advanced Accounting and Management Diploma)
    ISEA
    2011

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