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Description

Senior Financial Controller | Europe & Africa | 24 sites | SAP – Power BI – Advanced Excel

Experienced financial controller, I manage the financial performance of 24 sites across Europe and Africa. My role combines strategic analysis, operational support, and mastery of decision-making tools.

✅ Specialist in budget control, forecasts, closing, and variance analysis

✅ Business partner serving operational teams to optimize performance

✅ Advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, SAP – automated reporting, dynamic dashboards

✅ Involvement in profitability, pricing, cost reduction, and digitalization projects

My goal: to help you steer your business with precision, efficiency, and agility.

Available for one-off or long-term assignments, in-person or remote. Let's discuss your needs!

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Arabic
Native or bilingual
Spanish
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Valeo
Industrial Management Controller
AUTOMOBILE
November 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 1 month)
Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Production of monthly and quarterly business group reporting.
Preparation, coordination, and analysis of the weekly best estimate.
• Communication between the group, product groups, and production sites.
• Preparation of schedules and closing files.
• Fulfillment of requests from various departments with the required data.
• Preparation of dashboards and monitoring of performance indicators.
zumtobel group
Industrial Management Controller
TECH
December 2021 - September 2023 (1 year and 9 months)
Paris, France
• Production, monitoring, and control of monthly and quarterly reporting.
• Analysis and explanation of variances between actuals, forecasts, and budget.
• Participation in the development of the budget and business plan: Guarantee of the consistency of figures reported by the sites and verification of compliance with group objectives.
• Support to the management controllers of product groups and production sites.
• Editing and updating the business group's two websites (internal and external).
• Preparation of dashboards and development of existing ones.
• Support for various employees on software aspects (SAP, HANA, EPM, etc.).
Gestamp
Industrial Management Controller
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
September 2023 - December 2024 (1 year and 3 months)
Paris, France
• Validation of purchase requests.

Daily KPI monitoring.
• Monthly analysis of the establishment's performance.
Analysis and monitoring of stocks.
• Proposal for improvement of management procedures and optimization of financial information flows.
• Establishment of the budget and integration of budget elements into the monthly and quarterly results monitoring grids.
• Implementation of reporting tools for management.
• Alert on deviations and initiation of corrective measures.
• Participation in the costing and monthly monitoring of action plans for objective deployment.
• Provision of monthly forecasts to accounting.
• Facilitation and leadership of meetings (QRQC).
• Participation in monthly inventory operations and year-end physical inventory.
• Participation in DOPA 2024.