Greater Paris Metropolitan Region
Finance executive with experience leading teams in forecasting, planning (FP&A), finance systems, consumer payments, cash operations, treasury, and investor relations. A transformative executive leader focused on delivering results via people, processes, and technology. Drives change by leveraging technology (systems, tools, automation) and organizational upskilling, empowerment, and alignment. A leader with experience both at corporate and business unit level, management of joint ventures, publicly traded company responsibilities (board, audit, and investor relations), integration with parent company upon privatization, managing project portfolios and securing multi-million dollar funding for major systems projects.
Finance Executive leading a dynamic organization focused on best in class operations driven by investment in technology and people across cash operations, treasury, credit, consumer payments, consumer fraud, and financial systems Initiatives - Consumer Payments Technical Architecture Replacement for both on site and eCommerce, SAP Migration from local instance to Enterprise SAP, Power BI Dashboards for POS Transactions across Merchandise, F&B, Ticketing to analyze operational procedure effectivness and employee fraud Leader of 100+ people within Finance organization, annual budget $6M, and technology project portfolio of over $30M
Led Forecasting, Planning & Analytics team for the company-wide business performance analysis and root cause drivers for revenue and expense KPIs. Delivered Cause of Change analysis of business performance vs Plan, PF, PY, for monthly and quarterly close reporting for actuals in partnership with Accounting. Developed company-wide annual business plan (AOP Budget) and supported development of Long Term Plan (5YR/10YR). Led Planning & Forecasting of G&A areas for Finance and Human Resources. Led Investor Relations for Disneyland Paris until privatization in 2017. This included development of finanical press releases, investor conferences, organization of annual shareholders meetings, board and audit comittee meetings, and annual report development in partnership with communications teams. Financial restructuring in 2017, Reverse stock split in 2008 Leader of 20+ people within finance organization
Managed co-wide financial forecast and related analysis and reporting to segment and parent co Coordinated Board of Directors and Audit committee functions with internal partners for planning the schedule, agendas, and presentations
Managed monthly segment consolidation process and developed standardized reporting for operating income, cash flow, balance sheet and various causes of change to facilitate reporting and analysis
Developed and managed multi-year planning process for internal development fund of $15M which included forecasted project ROIs quarterly activity reviews, and creating structured feedback loops with parks stakeholders to improve direction of projects
Brand extension business development including national retail launch of consumer product (HRC branded beer) with joint venture partner. Managed interests in weekly cable television show, Hard Rock Live carried on the VHI music channel. Development of HRC branded music compilation CDs with Warner/Rhion Records. Managed publishing projects including HRC pin collector guides