Christopher Matalou Email & Phone Number

Hong Kong, Hk

𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠-𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 9,000+ 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 +70 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 generating >$1𝑀𝑑, 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒-𝐸𝑞𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐹𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑄𝑇.Europe is delivering a double digit growth and represents +/- 25% of Vistra. Reporting to Group CFO and Regional Managing Director, I am responsible for driving financial performance, enhancing operational efficiency. I am partnering with Europe executive leadership to define and deliver growth and efficiency key levers. I lead a Finance team of +40 across Europe, ensuring financial operational effectiveness and control, with transformation of the finance function.✓ Achieved +11% revenue growth by forming strategic commercial partnerships, delivering financial insights and influencing business decisions to maximize performance.✓ Optimized functional costs generating profitability gain by +2ppt.✓ Enhanced cash culture and overhauled financial processes, including tighter accounts receivable controls, leading to a 15-day reduction in DSO and improved cash conversion.✓ Led integration of French and Luxembourg acquisitions, overseeing financial processes, ensuring seamless post-merger success for a $10m Revenues business.✓ Successfully led finance workstream of several carve-out operations in multiple countries.✓ Participated to the preparation of financial documentation for Vistra Exit process (2022-2023).✓ Successfully implemented ERP (SAP 4/HANA) in Luxembourg and Netherlands, enhancing operational efficiency and financial reporting accuracy.✓ Designed and implemented a new Europe Finance Organization, improving cross-border financial collaboration and optimizing resource allocation across 18 countries.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Ile-De-France, Fr

𝐸𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 60 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 2 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 45 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 1 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 € 41𝐵𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐵𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒. 𝐸𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 45 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ +12,000 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 +€ 2.5𝐵𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑠.Nominated as FD EMEA for the newly created Fleet & Mobility Division - in addition to my UTA Group CFO role – I led 11 direct reports and +100 people in 8 countries, with end-to-end operational finance responsibility. Fleet & Mobility EMEA serves +10.000 customers, generates € 7bn Business Volume, € 160 million Operating Revenues with + 750 employees in +15 countries. I designed and led new European Finance organization, integrating newly acquired companies in France and UK, leading the carve-out of businesses in Italy and France, and supporting transformation projects. ✓ Definition and Execution of strategy across EMEA resulting in +11% Revenues and +17% EBITDA.✓ Led the financial set-up of the newly created Fleet & Mobility EMEA: PMI for acquisitions in France and UK; and carve-out of activities from Edenred Group (France and Italy).✓ Led Finance workstreams for Transformation EMEA projects: IT Core Platform, Front-End for SME clients.✓ Established core controls for Risk & Compliance, Internal Audit and IT Security across EMEA.✓ Set up of new EMEA Financial Teams with regional Business Partnering, central FP&A and Shared Services. ✓ Developed and deployed a finance onboarding program and professional development track that increased employee engagement.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Ile-De-France, Fr

Nominated to accelerate the integration of UTA Group within Edenred, to build strong Finance teams, setting up robust processes and digitalize Finance Operations. Leading Transformation with ExCo. Context of strong growth but impacted by Covid-19. Management of large international teams: 8 direct and +85 indirect✓ Managed double-digit growth revenue and increasing profitability by +7ppt EBITDA✓ Redesigning of Finance Function leveraging decentralization, nearshoring and outsourcing✓ Implementation of FP&A team from scratch✓ Digitalization and automation of Finance processes:✓ M&A and PMI: asset deal and integration of acquisitions in multiple geographies✓ In charge of Legal & Compliance, Fraud and Risk Management✓ Minority shareholder management✓ Board Member of Joint Venture with Daimler AG✓ Management Share-Service Center in Poland (+40 FTE in Operations and Finance)

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Ile-De-France, Fr

Nominated to support Group CEO and Group CFO to establish an improved monitoring of the performance of the Region, as well as building stronger country CFO teams, in a fast growing and instable environment (political, inflation…)✓ Revenues growth of +20%/y✓ M&A: Integration of company acquired in Central America (located in 6 countries)✓ Regional IT cost reduced by -20% through global optimization & negotiation✓ Finance Transformation: Management and Coaching of CFOs within the region; ERP migration and deployment of Business Regional Platform; ✓ Improvement of FP&A function, Cash Flow improvement through local initiatives on receivables and payables

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Ile-De-France, Fr

Nominated to create a Finance team across DACH, to optimize processes and deploy new accounting ERP.Centralization of Finance team in Munich for the region. Creation of synergies for the finance function and improved Business Partnering for business growth in Austria.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Ile-De-France, Fr

Nominated to support Country CEO to build the Finance team in a fast-growing environment, with post-merger integration. I also enlarged my role to Operations and Project Management to lead digitalization of the company through various projects, enabling the company to deliver strong revenue growth and increasing profitability, in a context of regulated business (e-money).✓ Managed budgets and business strategy, enabling strong growth: Revenues x 6 and EBITDA x 4 in 6 years with significant margin improvement (+8ppts).✓ Transformation of Financial and Operational processes through digitalization improving financial and business insights, improvement of customer NPS, and cost reduction by -35% of operational finance costs and -40% of customer service and logistics costs.✓ Obtained approval from BAFIN for the company to be an e-money agent; Implemented legal framework and internal control processes in compliance with PSD2 and anti-money laundering regulations.✓ Led company project ‘Customer Inside’: 60 projects enabling improvement of customer satisfaction, operational excellence (NPS implementation, new services, loyalty offers, referral program, etc.).✓ Delivered digital roadmap: introduction of agile methodology, Salesforce implementation, Mobile Application and Web sales generating more than € 10 Mio new sales the first year.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Ile-De-France, Fr

✓ Supervision of CFOs in 8 countries: Managing financial consolidation, reporting, budgeting and forecasting, Controlling and reviewing financial performance✓ Optimisation of Cash Forecasts and Cashflows✓ Implementation of Business Review

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Paris Region, Fr

Led 35 Internal control assignments, focused on financial and operational risks, in 15 countries across the world, defining and updating audit methodology, developing/Promoting Group policies & procedures and self-assessment tools, leading a team of 4 internal auditors.Selected Achievement: Implementation of a new internal control self-assessment tool for 40 countries focused on new product technology (card payments).

Worldwide, Oo

3 years' experience providing audit services (consolidated and statutory accounts in IFRS) to a variety of companies operating in France. Sector of activity covered: Telecom (France Telecom), Corporate Services (Servair - subsidiary of Air France), Association (Croix Rouge).

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