Germany
For more than 20 years, I have been supporting managing directors to achieve their goals helping them to structure, optimize and energize their organization. Speaking fluently four languages with a long experience of international management committees, I’ve managed finance and administration of a dozen companies in international groups with complex structure.
- Monitoring, financial and budgetary steering and reporting in IFRS and HGB for 3 companies, managing a team of 7 people - Management of annual audits and tax controls - Reorganisation of the accounting and management control department with the recruitment and training of a new team, - Improving the accounting tool and reporting to the Group, - Monitoring of energy costs and managing subsidies, - Cash management
Monitoring, financial and budgetary steering and reporting in USGAAP and French GAAP of 7 companies (France and Mauritius), Management of a team of 17 people (from the first posting up to the shareholder general meeting), Reorganization of the accounting and management control department with the recruitment and training of more than 10 employees, Improvement of the Sage accounting tool with the project of setting up a workflow and an internal reporting tool, Set up of an internal audit service, Reduction of the outstanding customer and the level of invoices to be issued.
Monitoring and financial management of the group and its 10 subsidiaries (closed monthly, quarterly and annual) with 2 direct reports and 30 people in subsidiaries. Set up of a forecasting and budgeting process Implementation of group procedures, including a fee rebilling policy, transfer pricing, travel expense policy and J-Sox. Accounting and financial reorganization of the group (recruitment and training of external and internal accountants) Support in ERP implementation. Management of Human Resources and Legal Issues
Finance (bookkeeping, controlling & cash) • Set up of a monthly closing & reporting to MD and shareholders. • Set up of a Cash Flow monitoring tool maximising interest received on excess cash • Improvement of company's banking solutions, reducing fees by 50% • Setup of a budget, forecast & five year operating plan • Maintain and structure accurate and timely financial information in a changing business environment Legal & Human resource • Set up of a new company and two branches in Dubai, including work permits • Set up of new T&E policy, new bonus schemes and a pension scheme • Renegotiation of main contracts in place (courier service, insurance policies, hotel, etc.) • Moving of the office into a new facility • Recruitment of 10 employees and long term interns.