Stéphan Bonneil Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Be

Brussels Area, Belgium

In my current role as a Head of Financial Customer Operations, I am involved in the management of end-to-end trade financial flows of BICS towards 1700 partner accounts (B2B) around the world with a focus on accomplishing organizational objectives. I manage and mentor one the largest team of the company to achieve set goals. Here are some of my key accomplishments:• Identified and mitigated cash recovery risks with potential P&L impacts.• Achieved optimum customer satisfaction by implementing best-in-class process response time.• Attained high productivity, improved team well-being, and decreased manual workload by designing and delivering digitalization, automation, and off/near-shoring solutions.• Recognized by peers for strong negotiation skills and innovative solution-finder mindset while serving as an inspirational team leader.• Managed revenue / cost disputes and ensured efficient DSO/DPO management for strong trade working capital performance.• Ensured successful transformation of the team to oversee more activities while decreasing workload through process optimization and automation.• Led trade financial flows from billing to collection, including nettings, financial reconciliation, dispute resolution, account settlement, free cash flow, and trade working capital performance of the company.

Brussels Area, Belgium

BICS is recognized in the wholesale communications market as a top global voice carrier and the leading provider of mobile data services. We aim at bridging the telecom world with the new unconventional communication providers worldwide.

Central African Republic

In my previous role at MOOV S.A.-ETISALAT (Telecom), I directed financial flow to ensure the exhaustiveness of financial books as per applicable and compliant practices and rules.Key contributions of this role:• Enhanced margin by 13% and significant revenue assurance with fraud detection and avoidance• Planned and executed price restructuring and intensive actions for cash recovery and clean-up of the balance sheet.• Led successful negotiations for national roaming, tax rebates, bank financing, debt restructuring, and integration with Maroc Telecom Group.• Produced less than €5M in revenue per month for Moov SA.• Minimized OPEX by 30% through reduction of network costs, the economy of scale approach, and implementation of HR.

Morocco

Here as a Head of Finance and Control, I have defined and headed overall financial operations for most strategic and largest accounts in MEA, including Maroc Telecom with affiliates, Gabon Telecom, Onatel Burkina Faso, and Malitel Sotelma in Mali.key achievements:• Reduced receivables balance from €100M to €32M via successful restructuring (carve out of services lines) and asset clean-up.• Gathered and entered all contract data in transactional systems (SAP) with accuracy while ensuring compliance with defined principles, such as revenue recognition, internal control systems, SOX, and USGAAP/IFRS.• Contributed to the successful negotiations of all relevant conditions with customers.

Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

I have managed all financial and administrative aspects of business with a focus on attaining organizational objectives.Key achievments: • Achieved EBITDA margin by 5% by creating and executing a recovery plan for balancing and forecasting company cash flows and treasury management.• Reorganized main company debts, including state, interconnect, and suppliers while updating dealer's contracts comprising cash outflows optimization.• Expanded and grew network by negotiating long-term financing with external investors.• Evaluated and turned around GSM operations with risk of bankruptcy, generating sales volume of €5M to €8M monthly.• Secured more than €5M monthly revenue for Comium.Additional Experience:• Finance and Administration Director at Telecel S.A. – Orascom (Telecom), Central African Republic• Export Business Administration and Controlling Manager at SIEMENS S.A., (Telecom & Energy), Belgium• Senior Consultant Enterprise Risk Services at Deloitte & Touche (Audit & Consulting), France

Central African Republic

Brussels Area, Belgium

Mali

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Paris Area, France

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Innovation Management For A Global Economy And Venture Creation, 15.9

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Innovation Management For A Global Economy And Venture Creation, 15.9

Master’S Degree, Management, Finance, Controlling, Information Systems And Business Administration

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting And Business/Management / Computer Science, Pretty Good" Awarded