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Côme VERCKEN

BRAZZAVILLE

En résumé

Throughout my 11 years of experience in Europe and in sub-Saharian Africa I have developed a strong expertise in management accounting and project management as well as knowledge in logistic and procurement.
I am recognized as a leader in planning & decision support, using financial and non-financial data to explain the financial consequences of business decisions and formulate business strategy. I have also a confirmed experience in management of tax related issues (transfer prices, VAT, customs and Income tax) and International Request for Proposal processes (in engineering and construction).
The variety of sectors (from asset management to brewery and construction) and environments (small, medium-sized family-owned and large listed companies) I’ve been successfully working in is the proof of my high adaptability and curiosity.
On top of that, I’ve demonstrated particular skills to act as an interface between different stakeholders. Therefore, I have the ability to conduct due diligence and I’m used to evolve in fast evolving organizations.

Mes compétences :
Taxation
Asset Allocation
demonstrated particular skills
decision support
budgeting
Value Added Tax
Request for Proposal
Project Management
Procurement
Industrial Buildings
Income Tax
Financial Planning
Consolidations
Analysis

Entreprises

  • Castel-BGI Group - Head of Financial Control

    2012 - 2014 The privately-owned Castel group is the world's largest dealer of French wines and the second largest producer of beers and soft drinks in Africa.

    In France, Castel owns 20 wine chateaux and the 500 Nicolas retail wine shops.
    In Angola, the group is the largest brewer with 8.8 million hectoliters per year - a 85 % market share - and the largest soft drinks maker with 3.6 million hectoliters per year - a 60 % market share.
    The group owns 12 factories with integrated bottling plants and one bottles manufacturing factory (40 000 tons of glass per year) in as many joint-ventures with local partners.
    It employs 7 000 people generating a turnover of 1.5 billion USD with about 100 wholesalers.

    I had on-going responsibilities over the:
    * Annual budgeting process and consolidation of the 13 subsidiaries,
    * Budget monitoring, analysis and recommendations of corrective actions to top management,
    * Tax management, internal and external transfer prices.
    I also led or participate to specific projects:
    * Integrated management software (ERP) installation: member of the steering committee, key decision maker from scope definition to execution (1 000 k USD, 40 work stations)
    * Production processes optimization (project leader): Identify level of losses and set up action plan to reduce losses throughout the production (objective to reduce from 10% to 8% the level of losses - 3.5 million USD savings - partly achieved).

  • Groupe Ogepar - Chief Financial and Operating Officer

    2008 - 2011 Groupe Ogepar (website), Brazzaville, Republic of Congo:
    Ogepar is the investment vehicle and family office of Belgian industrialist C. Froidbise.
    It owns a number of industrial and service companies in Europe and Africa.
    It employs 1 400 people generating a turnover of 200 million EUR.

    In Congo, Ogepar owns:
    PROCOB (website): Engineering and construction contractor with 15 million EUR turnover and 400 staff. It specializes in large scale power-supply projects and industrial buildings.
    SOGICO (website): Elaïs Hotel, 200 high standards rooms (4 stars), corporate costumers mainly. Annual turnover of 6 million EUR.
    For these 2 companies, I was the right hand man in finance for the owner.

    In addition to the supervision (2 teams of 10 people each) of general and analytical accounting, the set-up of balance sheet and appendices, the quarterly closing, consolidation packages and payroll supervision, I have more specifically been in charge of:
    * a full rehabilitation plan of 10 million EUR for the hotel,
    * transforming Procob from a a single project company to a fast growing, multi-projects, contractor equipped with the relevant pricing and control systems enabling it to win and profitably execute international EPC - engineering - procurement - construction contracts,
    * management of tax and especially cleaning of a tax liability situation.

  • AXA Investment Managers - Product Manager

    Nanterre 2007 - 2008 I was acting as the interface between clients (institutions, pension funds, retail networks) and the fund management teams. The platform offers to retail and institutional clients tailor-made solutions based on derivatives to answer their specific needs. The range of products was including index funds, structured and guaranteed products, tactical assets allocation, target maturity funds as well as innovative strategies such as portable alpha.

  • AXA Investment Managers - Executive assistant to Global Head of Sales, Marketing and Client Services

    Nanterre 2004 - 2006 Starting with 20 people covering European Institutional Sales, the team rapidly grew to 300 people worldwide covering Global Sales, Marketing and Client Service.
    I ran transversal projects with others departments (Finance, HR, Pricing, Investors relations at AXA Group..) to set up interface tools and support this transformation.

  • AXA Investment Managers - Intern

    Nanterre 2003 - 2004 * Market review of the main players and operations of the asset management sector.
    * Preparation of Quarterly Businesses Review (QBR) and set-up of the reporting.

  • Challenge Spi Dauphine - President

    1999 - 2003 Created in 1982, Spi Challenge is a sailing race between students and corporates, which has become the premier sports event in the recruitment industry in France. It gathers every year around 40 yachts and 350 crew and gets several hours of TV and radio cover, as well as numerous newspapers articles.

    As the ultimate decision maker in the race organization and interface between the sportsmen and the authorities, I was overseeing a team of 40 volunteers and a budget of 500 000 Euros.

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