Francois MICHEL

Vice President Finance at Imerys

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

About

I am a respected finance executive with extensive multi-cultural experience on five continents. I am appreciated for my acute sense of control, vision of the end-goal, anticipating problems before they happen, and defining the right path to enhance financial performance. I am knowledgeable about both product and project-based industries, and I enjoy diving into the action and challenging the operations. As a CFO in world-class industrial companies, I have successfully managed full regional P&Ls, led and developed teams of over 70 finance professionals and reshaped the global supply chain of a $10B+ business. Through my deep knowledge of industry, I am particularly skilled at connecting operational decisions with their financial impact as well as designing and developing processes to deliver on stakeholder's critical requirements.

Experience

  • Vice President Finance, Performance Minerals Americas at Imerys
    2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • GE Power (6 yrs 1 mo)
    • CFO Transformation, Global Supply Chain
      2018 - 2020 · 2 yrs

      GE executive leveraging my deep knowledge of the global supply chain to turn around the GE Power business, a $10B+ GE segment. ➙ Optimization of the industrial footprint across 30+ sites, the logistics centers across 100+ warehouses, and 200 office locations across the globe. ➙ Leading digital transformation of the key performance indicators to bring real-time information, a revolutionary dashboard that helps decision making within the global supply chain.

    • CFO Americas, Global Supply Chain
      2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

      A $3B+ GE segment. Provided financial leadership of the global supply chain operations of GE's heavy duty gas and steam turbines, generators, and services in North America.

    • CFO, Global Supply Chain (Alstom Thermal Power, acquired by GE)
      2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs

      Led the finance operations of the global supply chain for Alstom Thermal Power. 20 factories across the globe in three different tier 2 businesses (Gas, Steam and Service). Drove financial performance and managed its integration into the GE supply chain.

  • Alstom Transport (17 yrs 1 mo)
    • VP Finance - Asia-Pacific
      2010 - 2014 · 4 yrs

      Managed $1B+ P&L as the CFO ➙ Overall responsibility for the Business P&L, to meet all financial commitments including operating profit, cash flows, investment decisions and bid validations. ➙ Successfully grew the Alstom regional presence in a very competitive market for high-speed, regional, and mass transit transportation solutions. ➙ Board member of three JVs in partnership with Chinese public companies. ➙ Led a team of 70 finance professionals in eight countries.

    • VP Finance - North America
      2007 - 2010 · 3 yrs

      $0.8B P&L as the CFO ➙ Developed and executed the turn-around of the North America business. ➙ Optimized the processes of the transaction financial flows. ➙ Reshaped the finance team from 88 to 50 professionals while revenue doubled.

    • Americas Global Supply Chain Finance Leader
      2006 - 2007 · 1 yr

      Global Supply Chain Finance leader for Alstom Transport in the Americas. Industrial footprint of 15 locations for the railroad, mass-transit and rail infrastructure industries.