Brussels Metropolitan Area
After graduating from Reims Management School with a Master's Degree in Management and a Major in Finance, I joined BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions in Vienna as Financial Controller with a view to work in an international environment and enhance my languages skills. After this two-year mission, where I was accountable for preparing and developing diverse reportings and analyses for three branches specialized in the leasing business (11 markets), I decided to take a new turn in my professional career and joined the automobile industry at Fiat Chrysler Automobile Austria. I worked closely with the Parts & Services teams on the closings, forecasts and yearly budget, and I provided the link with our Controlling teams in Turin. I worked in German, English and French everyday.
Within the Controlling team of FCA, I am in charge of the "MOPAR" Parts & Services finance tasks: - Responsible for 5 P&Ls : Spare Parts (Italian and American), Technical Service, Customer Care and Service Contracts - Monthly closing : prepare financial statements for HQ and local teams, control discounts and calculate provisions to be accrued, calculate variances and report to HQ. - Work jointly with the Aftersales team to prepare the Forecasts and Budget phases - Analyze business cases and control margins - Support finance projects to be deployed at local level - Proactive in diverse analyses and projects
Within the Finance Department of BNP LS Austria, I am in charge of the following tasks: - prepare monthly reporting for Management, Headquarters and Partners for three entities - be a support and contact person to our partners and key account managers when relating to our reporting data (explanations, comments, corrections) - assist on Budget and Forecast in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Executive Officer - carry out specific studies on Sales and Risk data - implement and adapt new reports in the ERP and on Excel (incl. VBA programming) - be project manager on projects with our joint venture and partners - be leader in the implementation of the new collaborative tool of the group (Social & Collaborative Business Place), an IBM tool. - support CSR initiatives like digitalisation (member of the GenY project to share our best practices on digital working, with the aim to reduce our paper consumption and make our work simple, efficient and client oriented) and social events (cook for the homeless, renovate rooms for refugees).
Within the Industrial Products (IP) department, I worked with different teams on several financial audit missions. More particularly, I: - assisted and conducted comprehensive financial audits and compliance audits on financial statements and consolidated accounts. - performed analytical procedures and analyses to detect unusual financial statement relationships during the interim phase. - performed internal control (review of control procedures) and substantive testings. - identified and communicated accounting and auditing matters to seniors and managers. - proposed adjusting journal entries and discuss audit findings with my teams and clients. - prepared PBC (Provided by Client) lists and confirmation requests. - documented audit procedures and cross reference work papers. - assisted the year-end inventories and implemented tests to validate stock accounts.
Within the Controlling service of the PUM Plastiques company, subsidiary of Saint-Gobain Distribution, and under the supervision of the Chief of Controlling and Chief Financial Officer I was assigned several missions: I was firstly given the task to implement the inventory of the company's fixed assets (more than 200 different offices). To do so, I: - created an inventory document on Excel (including the extraction of databases, their treatment and VBA programming). - created investment and disinvestment procedures in agreement with the group investment policy. I was in constant relation with the commercial service and process managers during the creation, tests and proceedings of the necessary documents and inventory. The testing phase took place in the field in a commercial office. I also carried out a pluriannual study on the evolution of the stock's value by office. Finally, I updated the accounts historicizing documents and shaped Excel documents.