Business Finance Manager
3SI Group
Total years of experience :24 years, 10 Months
- Budget and Business Plan :
Work on communication documents in accordance with the Group expectations (ppt, Excel…)
Ensure deadline compliance
Meet all the Subsidiaries and challenge them on the coherence of their forecasts
Assess financial aspects of the business and development plan
Ensure business action consistency between Subsidiary strategy and Group strategy
Consolidate budget and business plan at a Domain level
Secure cash indicators such as free cash flow, working capital, net cash position with Group’s treasury manager & Subsidiaries’ CFO
Review monthly and annual forecasts
- Monitoring of various Subsidiaries (JM Bruneau France-Belgium-Germany-Spain, Mondial Relay France-Spain-Belgium, Mezzo France-Tunisia, Otto Office France-Germany) :
Assess commercial reality
Assess economic reality
Ensure achievement of objectives
Monthly reporting to the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee
Prepare reports for analyses and presentations
Consolidate the monthly reporting at a Domain level
Ensure deadline compliance
- Warning and Advice role towards the Board of Directors :
Specific studies requested by the Board of Directors
- Milestones : close support of the Subsidiaries in difficulty
Build a board with general and specific KPI
Implement action plan with Subsidiary Managers
Challenge the Managers for relevant adjustment actions when needed
Prepare reports for presentation to shareholders
- Financial projects : contribute to the development of finance within the Group
Harmonized P & L - permit to consolidate all the Subsidiaries P & L into one
Forecasting process - adapt the financial tools and the financial schedule to optimize information reliability
Financial calendar - harmonize and tally with the deadlines to obtain the best calendar in respect to the Shareholders and Group expectations
Organization and resources - define the best financial department organization and the optimum financial staff for financial departments within the Group
Finance Manager (14 Million € Turnover)
- Manage and Supervise the Accounts Department (Chief accountant, accountants)
- Ensure that appropriate financial regulations and controls are in place and in use at all times
- Ensure that all financial reporting obligations are met
- Take responsibility for overall coordination, management and delivery of the Business Plan
- Prepare and review detailed Budgets for approval by Top Management
- Draft, monitor and assess the financial aspects of the business and development plan
- Make regular reports to the Top Management on income, expenditure and any budget variance
- Assess options for coordinating the activities, procedures and systems so as to promote internal control policies and practices
- Maintain periodic financial control of the businesses within agreed budget guidelines of Top Management
- Ensure that all finances are properly implemented and monitored
Human Resources Manager (202 employees)
- Manage and Oversee the HR Department (HR and wages)
- Plan, develop and implement strategy for HR management and development, including recruitment and selection of policy practices, pay and conditions, contracts, training and development, employee succession planning, culture and behavior development, performance appraisals and quality management enhancement.
- Oversee management and employee relations to ensure a highly effective workforce capable of achieving business goals and objectives while maintaining legal compliance
- Partnership with the management team to assess organizational development needs and fill the lacks in order to develop an efficient, capable workforce through a relevant organizational pattern, communications, training, development and coaching
- Implement and follow up appropriate systems for measuring necessary aspects of HR development
- Supervise the payroll process
- Manage and control departmental expenditure within agreed budgets
- Downsizing Plan - minus 92 employees between 2008 and 2009
(700 Millions € Outstanding)
- Take responsibility for overall coordination, management and delivery of the Risk data for the business plan
- Prepare and review detailed budgets for approval by Top Management
- Implement, Modeling and Monitoring of Risk KPI
- Efficiency studies and Income Optimization
- Regular reports to the Top Management
- Create and implement a new provisioning method
- Implement the provisioning method in new countries (Greece, Portugal, Hungary, Czech Rep & Slovakia)
- Set up the risk cost per generation and contagion
- Monitoring of actions taken in Marketing Partnership Cofidis/3Suisses Belgium and Cofidis Belgium/Cofidis France (Brand Awareness)
- Basel II : Implement and Ensure that all financial reporting obligations about Credit Risk are met
- IAS 39 : Risky customers provisioning
- Social accounts and Preparation of Operating Accounts (I.T. Department, Job Training School, Logistics Department, Head Office Accounts)
- Codify, record and file invoices
- Customer and supplier accounts
- End of year accounts
- Tax calculation related to leased equipment
- Monthly reporting
Thesis : The Balance Sheet Dressing by the Accruals.
University Degree of Risk Management and Financial Tools
Master of Accounting and Finance (M.S.T.C.F) Obtained with Honors.