Yvette Guerin

Client: The Kooples (high-end ready-to-wear group)

Period: [April 2025 – September 2025]

Position: Transition Manager – General Accounting

Temporary support for the accounting department in a context of sensitive closings, internal restructuring, and accounting cleanup. Need for senior expertise to ensure the reliability of general accounts and compliance with tax and legal deadlines.

🔧 Missions performed:

• Review and justification of general accounts

• Processing of cut-off entries: accruals, prepaid expenses, revenue in advance, expenses due

• Analysis and regularization of suspense and clearing accounts

• Monitoring and correction of VAT discrepancies (collected VAT, deductible VAT, self-assessed VAT…)

• Control of consistency between accounting entries and consolidated reports

• Active participation in monthly and annual closings

• Support in preparing the tax return package (balance sheet, income statement, appendices)

• Regular exchanges with the CFO, statutory auditors, and operational departments (purchasing, logistics)

🛠️ Tools used:

CEGID – Advanced Excel (complex formulas, pivot tables, macros)

✅ Concrete results:

• Closings completed on time, with justified and documented accounts

• Complete cleanup of several critical accounts

• Improvement of tracking files and automation of repetitive manual tasks

• Better inter-departmental communication regarding accounting processes

Accounting Supervision

Establish and organize the company's accounting process, in compliance with

French and international accounting standards (PCG, IFRS).

Supervise the recording of accounting entries and the maintenance of general,

management, and treasury accounting.

Management and Organization:

Manage and lead a team of employees, ensuring their motivation, training, and

professional development.

Define and implement the operational unit's strategy, in line with the overall

company strategy.

Operations Management:

Manage the human, material, and financial resources of the unit.

Negotiate contracts and partnerships with suppliers and clients.

Ensure customer satisfaction

Administrative Management:

Establish and organize the company's administrative processes

Manage administrative staff (recruitment, training, payroll management)

Ensure the management of company contracts and agreements.

Financial Management:

Supervise all of the company's accounting activities (entry recording, accounting

maintenance, tax declarations)

Develop the company's budgets and monitor their execution.

Manage the company's treasury and optimize financial flows