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Description

Senior consultant with over 15 years of experience in various sectors: industry, energy, retail, public sector, pharmaceuticals. Expertise in financial reporting (P&L, Margins, COGS, Budget Monitoring, etc.), as well as change management. Excellent command of analysis and reporting tools (Excel, Power BI, etc.)

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 50km)

BINOMIAL
Management Control and Accounting Consultant
July 2022 - May 2025 (2 years and 10 months)
Paris, France
Support and process optimization for VSEs / SMEs (restaurants, services, retail)

Management Control
• Implementation of performance indicators (KPIs) and construction of automated dashboards (using Excel, Power BI, and Report One)
• Budget elaboration through the preparation of a budget model, leading meetings with various departments, and validation by senior management
• Monthly monitoring and analysis of actuals versus forecasts and justification of variances

Accounting
• Implementation of management accounting in collaboration with accounting teams and senior management to identify analytical dimensions (cost centers, projects, activities)
• Elaboration of shared cost allocation keys
• Monthly reconciliation of sales, purchases, and payroll entries with data from invoicing, purchasing, and payroll software
• Preparation of monthly cut-offs and provisions and monitoring of their accounting with the accounting department
• Elaboration of a monthly statement including P&L, cash flow, and statement of debts and receivables

Optimization
• Redesign of accounting processes to allocate entries to the correct analytical dimensions
• Update and optimization of income statement reporting files to include analytical dimensions
• Change management: training on new processes + support for accounting and operational teams (sales, purchasing, logistics, production)
• Leading meetings with accounting and operational teams
GENERAL MILLS
Management Control – Transition Management
February 2022 - July 2022 (5 months)
Paris, France
• Preparation of monthly data consolidation reports for the purchasing team (purchase prices and volumes for the current month and the next 12 months)
• Analysis of variances between actual, budgeted, and forecasted costs, impact on P&L
• Meetings with buyers to explain and summarize the causes, impacts, and anomalies observed
• Reporting of anomalies identified to IT teams and production sites regarding invoice entry and goods receipt processes
• Leading financial meetings with the Chief Financial Officer and the Purchasing Director to present a summary of variances and their P&L impacts
CATERPILLAR
Assistant to the General Manager – Management Control and Accounting
November 2019 - September 2021 (1 year and 10 months)
Tunisia
• Execution of the annual budget process
• Monthly monitoring of management indicators (sales, gross margins, operating expenses) and analysis of variances against budget
• Control of monthly accounting entries to ensure the accuracy of cut-offs (ensuring data quality)
• Preparation of quarterly financial reports for shareholders