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Hello, I am Santiana.
Outsourced CFO for start-ups/SMEs, I help founders structure their finances, maintain control over their cash flow, and manage their growth with clarity.
I set up financial models, clarify your financial data so that you can make strategic decisions at the right time.
🔧 What I can help you with:
➡️ Budgets & forecasts: modeling, business plans, solid proposals to convince (and anticipate).
➡️ Financial reporting: creation of personalized dashboards (P&L, WC, KPIs) to track the right indicators.
➡️ Cash flow & financing: implementation of tools to maintain control over cash flows, secure, optimize.
➡️ Management control: structuring internal processes, monitoring costs, ensuring data reliability.
➡️ Payroll management at the end of the month
💻 I work in particular with Pennylane to centralize and automate your accounting data.
If you need someone to help you see more clearly on the financial side, I would be delighted to discuss it
🎯 5 years of experience in finance:
-3 years in management control & audit (including €45M of projects managed at ACTED)
-2 years as an outsourced RAF for ambitious startups. I notably supported Hylight, a fast-growing deeptech, on its post-fundraising financial challenges and in its structuring strategy.
English
Native or bilingual
French
Native or bilingual
Swahili
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 20km)
Experience
- HylightFinancial AnalystAVIATION AND AEROSPACESeptember 2023 - Today (2 years and 9 months)Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
- Financial reporting: Weekly and monthly update of KPI figures, analyses, and reconciliation of financial flows
- Invoice tracking: management of the tracking and collection process, identification of anomalies or payment delays
- Supplier invoices: Monthly management in Pennylane
- Close collaboration with founders and engineers to align financial and operational objectives, to optimize cash flow and budget management
- ACTEDManagement ControllerCIVIC AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONSSeptember 2021 - August 2023 (1 year and 11 months)Paris, FranceI was a financial controller responsible for supervising ACTED's projects in 6 countries for a portfolio of 45 million euros. My tasks included:
- Preparing and validating budget proposals for calls for tenders from institutional donors.
- Analyzing budget allocations to ensure the eligibility of expenses.
- Reviewing and approving financial reports.
- Ensuring that project expenses remain within the planned budget, within the planned framework and within the allotted time.
- Identifying project-related risks, planning their mitigation and coordinating with all parties involved.
- Verifying bank reconciliations and managing reminders for donor/partner invoices.
- Providing daily technical support to financial staff in the field in accounting, procedures and audit, training.
- Reviewing the semi-annual and annual closing of accounting accounts.
- Preparing payments to suppliers and monitoring payment deadlines
- Review and validation of financial information before any contract signature
- Conforama FranceFinancing OfficerRETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)October 2017 - February 2020 (2 years and 4 months)Paris, FranceFollowing training organized by BNP-Paribas, I was responsible for completing loan applications, verifying credit analysis summaries, analyzing client files and using data to recommend payment plans.
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Education
- Master 2 International FinanceAmerican Business School of Paris2021Formation intégrée en quatre ans et demi pour acquérir les connaissances clés en analyse et évaluation financières. Cours: Portfolio Management, Money & Banking, Audit Control & Risks Management, Intertional Economics, Principles of Accounting..etc
Certifications
- Fundamentals of quantitative analysisUniversity of Pennsylvania2021
Skill set (19)
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