Bucharest, Romania
Finance Executive with 15 years of international background and solid experience in team leadership, I developed a strong expertise on Retail business models and financial structure. I successively acted as Controlling Director and Country CFO for large Retail companies in Brazil, Argentina and Europe, leading the execution of financial srategies, and contributing to implement change cultures in large organizations. I recently acted as CFO in Romania, leading an M&A process and operating a deep finance and corporate transformation. I now joined Grupo Carrefour Brasil as Group Financial Control Director.
- Ensure Tax and Accounting compliance for all legal entities in Romania. Define and maintain local governance to ensure Financial targets achievement. Lead Strategic planning in high inflationnary context, loss of purchasing power and regulatory changes in Romania (Tax reform) - Concluded M&A transaction for acquisition of CORA operations in Romania (share deal) in Oct/23: Closing accounts and PPA, integration plan implementation - Lead Finance transformation program in Romania: SAP upgrade to S/4 HANA and harmonization of CoA. Implementation of ARIBA for Opex/Capex and S2C flows. Kyriba retrofit for payments flows (treasury). - Lead corporate simplification project : merger of operational legal entities to optimize taxes and simplify operations
- Lead consolidated financial statements elaboration and reporting for approx 25 legal entities in Belgium. Coordinate closing processes with central team in Group HQ, local finance team (accounting/tax/legal) and external auditors - Monitor company performance and support Process Owners through business controlling teams restructured around Profit Model three key processes to ensure ROCE maximisation (balance between results and ressources): 1/ Ressources (Working Capital and investments) 2/ Commercial and 3/ Operational management (supply chain, stores and new digital channels) - Ensure Financial Communication and Strategic Planning processes with Group. Attend country business reviews with CEO and CFO
Country CFO for Group Operations in Argentina and Vice President of the Board - Define Financial strategy in deteriorated hyperinflationary macro economic context in Argentina. Debt structuring and deleveraging process through non-strategic assets disposal program, CAPEX reduction and receivables optimization. Bring external funding solutions for Real Estate developpment and multiformat Retail expansion - Tax Planning and optimization in high tax pressure context. Efficiency of upstream cashflows, intercompany accounts and dividend payments. Implement Accounting best practices, in line with Group corporate strategy for IFRS Reporting - Monitor Business Performance and lead elaboration of Business Plans
Member of Business Unit Executive Committee, in charge of Finance. Direct report to CEO. Focus on: - Monitoring Business model financial performance (balance Profit / Ressources) with dedicated teams supporting operational excellence model (SG&A, Store Productivity and Supply Chain) and commercial margin management (balance sales elasticity, gross margin investments and back margin recovery) - Ensuring financial processes for BU: Strategic Planning, Budget Coordination, Monthly closures and weekly Last Estimates. Attend Group Business Reviews with CEO (monthly basis) Structured Extra Financial teams to attend new processes in the context of BU creation. Also lead implementation of BI tool for Food Retail Division in Brazil.