Christophe Buffard Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Specializing in Business Expansion and Optimization|Corporate Development , Financial Modeling. Sulfur Trader

The Woodlands

Sulphur trader for South-East US Market. Increased area profitability by 50% 0r $500,000 annually.Developed a linear program (LP) (Frontline) for the optimization of Liquid Sulphur rail fleet. Achieved 10.5% monthly improvement in margins($850,000 annually) between suppliers and customers network.Recovered $6,0000,000 in inventory from Turkmenistan which was previously classified as bad debt.Designed and maintained financial reporting model for company.Optimized supply of Sulphur and logistic chain from Turkmenistan.Developed standard Sulphur deals analysis for risk and margin requirements.

The Woodlands, Texas Area

Sulphur trader for South-East US Market. Increased area profitability by 50% 0r 500K.Developed a linear program (LP) (Frontline) for the optimization of Liquid Sulphur rail fleet. Achieved 10.5% monthly improvement in margins($850,000 annually) between suppliers and customers network.Designed and maintained financial reporting model for company.Optimized supply of Sulphur and logistic chain from Turkmenistan.Developed standard Sulphur deals analysis for risk and margin requirements.

The Woodlands, Texas Area

Managed 2 US Refinery Petroleum coke positions totaling annual sales of $28,000,000 in revenue. •Built long-term relationships with customers and developed a strategy to maximize profitability.•Managed Metcoke Breeze operation in Alabama totaling $6,000,000 in revenue. Turned operation from a consistently losing division into a profitable division within one year of stepping into the role.•Controlled costs and develop new customers with higher margins. •Collaborated with screening operations to ensure costs were being properly and accurately accounted as per/ton. •Developed and executed a strategy to grow imported Metcoke margins by targeting new customer segments that were not targeted previously.Petcoke Trader - East Coast USMetcoke Trader - South-East US

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

•Led the team for Fuel Grade Petcoke Division for Global Strategy Analysis and Annual Strategy Documents for the Division with Annual revenue of $750,000,000.•Redesigned and Developed Fuel Grade Division and Calcined Division CRM databases that tracked global sales and market intelligence.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Oracle - Special Projects

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

•Led the team for company-wide budget coordination, including the production of financial statements and product price/volume variations year over year operating with annual revenue of > $3.6B.•Acted as Hyperion Financial Planning Administrator by completing ad-hoc reporting and Smartview data analysis.•Analyzed financial statements, KPIs, and prepared presentations for the quarterly Board of Directors meetings.•Developed various financial models to evaluate performances of business units. •Explored variances of financial statements, including bridges from budget to actual and current year to prior year.•Designed files to create a standard workflow, streamlined reporting, and continued with process improvement. •Performed ad hoc analysis to support the CFO and the executive team’s research projects for specific problems.•Led Implementation and design of SAP BPC as well as part of team in implementing of Oracle ERP.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

West Palm Beach, Florida Area