Paris2003 - maintenantMy position involves up to 50% worldwide travel.
My role involved participation in and supervision of financial and operational audits covering all the Group’s subsidiaries (150 countries).
I worked on two major kinds of assignments:
- Internal control: checking that internal rules of financial management are well applied;
- Organizational issues in the subsidiaries or in the Head Office: auditing existing processes and identifying ways of increasing the efficiency of operations
INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INCLUDE:
Sept – Oct 05 Improving the management for two After Sales sites Buenos Aires, Argentina
March - April 05 Ensuring a better Supply chain management for a Spare Part Warehouse, Coventry, U.K.
concentrated on good reception, inventory and stock management
Sept – Oct 04 Increasing the efficiency of the After Sales department of the Tokyo, Japan
commercial subsidiary
July 04 Following up the recommendations of a former audit focused on Geneva, Switzerland
customer service
May – June 04 Recommendations for the marketing and purchasing Johannesburg, South Africa
departments of the commercial subsidiary
- Advertising conception and production (see Slovenia)
- Buying media spaces and media planning.
Jan – Feb 04 Recommendations for the marketing department of a commercial Ljubljana, Slovenia
subsidiary focused on
- Advertising conception and production: the different steps of a campaign’s creation from the creative brief to the post by analysis, the negotiation of advertising conception and the production costs and fees, agency appraisal and checks.
- Communication and public relations: relations with the media, campaign consistency and effectiveness, internal communication.
HEADQUARTER MISSIONS INCLUDE:
May – June 05 Improving of Marketing coordination among the Direction of Marketing and Quality of the Head office and 5 subsidiaries Italy, Spain, Brazil, Czech Republic and France.
Mission focused on catalogs, internet creation, advertising and merchandising.
Jan – Feb 05 Assessment of the budget and of the commercial means of the SODEXA (Société D’Exportation Automobile) : Export Company tax free vehicles for embassy and international organisations.
Nov – Dec 05 Analysis of the process of elaboration of special series (Roland Garros, Quicksilver..)