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Maisons-Laffitte, Île-De-France, Fr

SiPearl designs high-performance, low-power microprocessors for supercomputing and AI.Context: Member of Management Committee. Responsibility for finance, bookkeeping, banking, treasury & cash management, CapEx management, financial planning and analysis, statutory aspects, internal control.Achievements: built accounting and finance team from scratch, participated in raising € 105m across 2 equity and CLN rounds, raised € 8m in senior debt from pool of commercial banks, raised combined € 35m over prefinanced RTC (French CIR), successfully managed 3 self-requested RTC tax reviews to secure tax receivables, set up financial processes while company headcount grew from 70 to 200+

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Worked to ensure compliance and anti-corruption e-learning startup company successfully secures and grows its customer portfolio. Provided assistance in setting out and rolling out pricing strategy, achieving commercial effectiveness, expanding product portfolio, responding to competitive bids for larger-scale accounts, negotiating with prospective customers.

Paris, Fr

Subsidiary of French railroad company SNCF, in charge of operating commercial leases in train stations. 3,000 stations; 180,000 sq mtr in commercial premises; 1,500 outletsMember of Executive Committee. In addition to finance and administration, responsibility for legal (1,800 contracts at hand) and lease management teams (€ 230M annual cash collection). 16 reports in total.

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, Fr

Responsible for team of 7.Played instrumental role in turning the audit group as a reference for helping solve business issues; set up global cybersecurity audit program; set up global audit program for technically assessing the management of safety in mass transit operations; reorganized internal audit processes; managed and coached new joiners in acquiring hard and soft skills.

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, Fr

Appointed specifically to remedy structural and operational issuesResponsible for team of 3 controllers and 1 chief accountant based in France / the UK.Achievements: Re-engineered operational and financial processes for the EEIG: achieved full accounting clean up; set up SAP ERP system for accounting, finance and sales; collected € 0,8M long-overdue debt; brought down overdues to zero in 18 months; identified € 1M unaccounted profit; increased reliability for the revenue forecast process. Day to day, in charge of monthly financial reporting, budget, reforecast and strategic planning for both the EEIG and purchasing at SG Building Distribution sector level. * Prism: European Interest Grouping (EEIG) in charge of collecting and distributing bonus fees generated by portfolio of 300+ partnership contracts with major European building material manufacturers.

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, Fr

Major achievement: set up new activity for the internal audit group 2007: Assessed significant processes including accounting, sales, marketing, procurement and inventory. Audited process efficiency, effectiveness and associated risks, delivered recommendations for improvement to entity, business unit and group management. Trained and supervised junior audit staff.2008-10: tasked to set up then perform cross-entity, cross-activity on-demand internal consulting assignments requested by Group general management. Assignments included operational or strategic issues and required assessing roll out scenarios and/or potential savings.

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, Fr

Directed brand consolidation initiatives specific to the DIY and hardware markets in 15 European countries. Achievements: Rolled out 3 European brand product ranges including 600 product items in 10 countries and managed product inventory for phased-out brands until full sell-off. European portfolio streamlined from 37 down to 8 brand platforms.

Courbevoie, Île-De-France, Fr

Financial planning and analysis. Acting financial manager for Turkish and Hungarian commercial affiliates.