Samuel A.

External CFO/Financial Director missions, including:

Mar23-Sept23: CFO / Plug In Digital (Video Game Production/Distribution) under the supervision of the President / Revenue: €30M and headcount: 150 in 2023 / International Group; 4 companies / Under LBO:

• Structuring and ensuring the reliability of financial information, redesigning reporting/budget/forecast processes/models

• Implementing cash management, preparing projections, optimizing working capital requirements

• Evolving accounting choices, implementing consolidated Group reporting

• Monitoring and modeling bank covenants

• Integrating acquisitions, optimizing Group operations including fiscal integration mechanics

• Structuring finance processes / developing the finance IT environment, structuring the ERP roadmap

• Reorganizing and managing a team of 4 people, Recruitment, Handover/onboarding of CFO

Mar22-Sept22: CFO / CASTALIE (Environment, Water) under the supervision of the President / Revenue: €10M and headcount: 120 in 2021 / under LBO:

• Restructuring IT Finance team/processes/roadmap, Recruitment

• Optimizing closing/reporting processes, producing reports

• Creating a financial captive and an operational subsidiary

• Reconstructing the budget, Managing and implementing cash projections, Taking over financing files, Redefining purchasing processes

• Recruiting a Financial Director and handover

Dec21-Jun22: Financial Director / YellowKorner (Publishing, Retail) under the supervision of the CEO and founders / Revenue: €40M and headcount: 300 in 2021 / International Group of 20 companies / under LBO:

• Managing accounting/finance teams

• 360° audit (Organization, IT, HR) of the finance function

• Defining action plans to optimize the productivity of the finance function

• Implementing the action plan selected with management

• Taking charge of financial management

• Modeling and producing monthly/quarterly reports

Jul21-Jan22: Financial Director / SUDAC, VEOLIA Subsidiary (Energy) under the supervision of the CEO and BU Financial Director / Revenue: €18M and headcount: 120 in 2021 / 11 Establishments / Post-acquisition context:

• Team management (8 collaborators)

• Producing and presenting monthly reports/Business Reviews to CFOs and Regional CEOs

• Optimizing management accounting and reporting process

• Producing and presenting budgets

• Monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing working capital requirements, Credit Control, CAPEX

• Monitoring IT transfers (Reporting tools: Oracle, HRIS: ADP)

• Updating insurance coverages,

• Developing and improving steering tools

• Recommending optimizations for accounts and steering

• Monitoring applicable IFRS standards

Mai17-Jan19: Financial Director / PIETONS CORP. (Communication / Events) under the supervision of the Manager / Revenue: €6M and headcount: 16 in 2018 / Group of 5 companies:

• Optimizing/Redesigning the legal structure: Supervising share transfers/mergers, Valuing subsidiaries, Implementing the intercompany recharges process

• Conducting an audit and implementing recommendations: Monitoring team time, Rationalizing external service provider usage, Optimizing quote pricing

• Monthly control of general accounting/Account closing/Liaison with the chartered accountant and the statutory auditor

• Creating a subsidiary/Launching a new activity (Le Jardin suspendu): Formalities, Producing business plans, Negotiating financing

Jan17-Jan18: Finance Assistant / H4D (Digital Health) under the supervision of the President / Revenue: €630K and Headcount: 17 in 2017 / Start-up / 3 venture capital funds as shareholders:

• Fundraising (> €1M), Preparing financing files, Identifying and consulting banks, Negotiating

• Assisting with fundraising: Managing the dataroom preparation

• Finance liaison for investment funds holding shares

Mai16-Jan18: Financial Director / Sous Les Fraises (Urban Agriculture) under the supervision of the President / Revenue: €600K and headcount: 10 in 2017 / Start-up / Business Angels as shareholders:

• Optimizing the business model, Reviewing general sales/purchase terms, Implementing and carrying out customer reminders, Introducing a budgeting approach, Producing the budget

• Obtaining BPI grant (approx. €100K), Optimizing executive compensation

• Producing a simplified quarterly financial report, Controlling general accounting, Account closing, Supervising monthly payroll (outsourced), Processing payments, Implementing and carrying out administrative archiving, Liaison with Chartered Accountant/Banks/Insurers/Lawyers

• Recruiting a Financial Controller and handover

Sept15-May17: Financial Director / Laboratoires ERSA (Parapharmacy) under the supervision of the President / Revenue: €20M and headcount: 93 in 2017 / Group of 3 companies / under LBO:

• Creating the finance department: Internalizing accounting, Recruiting/Onboarding/Managing an accountant and a Controller of General Accounting, Recruiting a Financial Director with handover, Deploying the CEGID module, Implementing management accounting, Liaison with the integrator

• Optimizing payroll (outsourced): Monthly review of payroll elements, URSSAF claims for previous years (gain +€144k), Deploying Nibelis HRIS, Recruiting an HR manager

• Creating a subsidiary: Formalities, Producing business plans, Maintaining accounting records, Integration into CEGID

• Optimizing working capital requirements: Repositioning payments, Implementing leaseback contracts

• Producing monthly reports/budgets/budget monitoring, Monthly control of general accounting, Account closing, Validating purchase requests, Processing payments

Other:

Provided training on "Due diligence and investment processes", "Business economic reality", and "Financial analysis" for investment managers and bankers.

Digital Health / Group of 3 companies including 2 foreign subsidiaries / Revenue: from €630K to €5.5M and headcount: from 17 to 65 between 2017 and 2020 / Hypergrowth-Structuring-Business Model Change / 7 venture capital funds as shareholders:

• Fundraising (> €25M) / Fundraising research: Loans, Grants, Tax credits (>€5M)

• Creation of Finance, Legal, HR, and Purchasing departments

• Taking over/Internalizing general accounting, Implementing management accounting, Producing account closing

• Designing and producing monthly reporting, Producing and monitoring budgets, Optimizing the budgeting process, Identifying and monitoring KPIs

• Updating social law aspects, Redrafting contracts, Implementing Time Management System, Implementing the Social and Economic Committee (CSE), Recruiting over 40 employees, Implementing an onboarding process, Managing disputes, Company representative to employee representative bodies, Implementing and managing performance/objective/bonus processes, annual calculation of raises/bonuses

• Business Partner: Pricing, Offer construction, CRM/Sales Administration process optimization; (Re)negotiating purchasing contracts; International deployment (adapting offers/contracts by country), Creating foreign subsidiaries (US, Iberian & Italy); Legal liaison

• Member of the Management Committee, participation in Board of Directors meetings

Agri-food & Medical Packaging Industry / Listed Multinational in Melbourne / France scope: 16 companies including 3 foreign subsidiaries (Portugal, Romania, Morocco), 20 production sites / France scope: approx. €900M revenue and 2500 employees in 2010 / Post-merger, Restructuring, Harmonization, Identification and implementation of synergies

• Supervision and support of accounting (30 people), payroll (6 people), controlling (17 people) departments

• Monthly accounting control, Management of monthly/annual closings

• Harmonization of reporting models/Production of monthly reports

• Management and coordination of the budgeting process

• Production/monitoring of budgets, Variance analysis, Validation and allocation of purchases

• Corporate law management

• Identification and Implementation of synergies: Harmonization of ERPs (SAP), Creation of shared accounting/payroll services, Harmonization of processes, Staff restructuring