Ben Buring, Cgma, Afm Email & Phone Number

Nice, Fr

Supporting businesses by undertaking fractional CFO missions including:• Budgeting & Forecasting• Cash flow management• Pricing strategies• Business growth models• Buy or make decision • Opportunity cost analysis• Price / volume mix analysisHelping entrepreneurs and managers making decisions by building financial models such as:• 3 way models: Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, Balance Sheet• Sales, Operating Cost, Depreciation, Tax, Working Capital, Debt and Equity Schedules• Covenants, Ratio analysis (PER, EPS, Interest Cover, Gearing)• Business Plan, Budget, Forecast, Variance analysis• Business valuation: DCF, P/E method, Dividend valuation model, Net asset methodsI also teach Mergers & Acquisition to graduate students at ESAM Paris business school. I help them preparing the Global Case Competition at Harvard where the compete against students from all over the world.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Created financial models and trained individuals on using and maintaining them. Budgeted and Forecasted P&L for the supply chain and procurement department. Undertook and presented financial analysis to executives.• Created 3 statement models in Excel with different scenarios to assess the impact of strategic decisions • Built a scenario analysis model to evaluate the impact of changes in ingredients cost and sales forecast• Helped management in make or buy decision process by creating models• Implemented a budgeting, forecasting, controlling and variance analysis process• Analysed supply chain cost, identified the main cost drivers and presented them to the executive team • Advised the executive team on action plans to reduce operating costs• Modelled automated dashboards using Power BI to report key financial metrics

London, United Kingdom

Built financial models, plans and analysis for the EMEA and APAC region. Reported metrics and strategic decisions taken by the competition to the executive committee. Contributed to the management deck reporting. Responsible for the analysis of a $10M budget, forecast and P&L. • Built an Excel based model to help the sales team offering discounts to clients• Reduced reporting time by 80% by modeling an automated dashboard with 1) Excel and 2) Tableau• Brought back spending in line with budget by improving a budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis process for a $10M P&L using MS Excel• Contributed to the risk management of the company by analysing and reporting a competitor’s quarterly financial performance to the executive committee

London

Led financial modeling and analysis, reports consolidation and reconciliation, invoicing, cash flow forecast, and led the financial communication for a consortium of companies for a £30M project.• Created a financial model based on Excel that improved the forecast accuracy for the human resources needed on the project from 60% to 90% accurate• Created Power BI based dashboards to report and present metrics to all stakeholders involved in the project• Increased the profitability of the project by £200K by improving the forecast accuracy and the timeliness of deliverable• Recruited, trained and managed a junior financial analyst

London, Royaume-Uni

I mapped the finance processes of three entities for a global leading camera manufacturer in the context of a merge. The project I worked on aimed to outsource the support functions of our client in Eastern Europe.I standardized the processes taking into account the merge consequences on the newly created finance function. I analysed and gave guidance on how to optimise the full time equivalent (FTE) required for the new organization. I led workshops with finance directors in order to agree on the final FTE retained and on the TO BE processes.I participated to the set up of a shared service centre in Eastern Europe. I engaged with all levels of the client’s organisation from entry graduates to the C-Level on a daily basis.

London, Royaume-Uni

I prospected new customers making phone calls and door to door visits to expand the customer data base. I led sales presentations, negotiation stages and closed sales. I was responsible for 30% of the sales.

Harlow, United Kingdom

Responsible for the modeling, analysis and reporting of Excel based models to help management making decisions. Supported sales teams in return on working capital calculation to assess the viability of quotes before they were sent to clients.• Decreased the daily sales outstanding by 5 days and improved the inventory turn by 10% by: o Modelled and reported dashboards tracking working capital metrics (AR and inventory) o Partnered and recommended actions to improve sales metrics to the sales teams

Paris, France

- I analysed and reported operating expenses to budget owners. - I provided financial analysis based guidance for cost savings - I presented budget variances and led ad-hoc analysis for the finance director. - I Identified cost reducing leverages and developed cost killing solutions that resulted in a 5% decrease of the company total operating expenditures.

Nancy, France

I reenigeenered the delivery organization in order to cut overtime cost and to increase the profitability per driver. I worked withim the chartering team. I had to find transport solutions with strict time and profitability constraints. I negociated through the phone on a daily basis with both customers and suppliers to meet my targets.I have also been involved in the commercial aspect. I prospected potential customers and found new leads. I did some PowerPoint presentations showing the value added of our service.

Education record

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Research Paper : "Does financial planning & analysis contribute to strategy implementation?"

Education record

Master'S Degree Finance And Economics

Exchange Study

- Corporate governance in China (Gome case study) - Chinese language - Lecture about business case in China - E-commerce in China (Alibaba.

Bachelor'S Degree, Law, Economics, Management, Specialization In Management Sciences

Activities and Societies: Reaserch paper : "Why western companies need to adapt their tactics to the chinese market development?"

French High School Diploma, Baccalaureat, Mathematics

Major in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology. Alongside with History, Geography, English, German, French literature and Philosophy courses.