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Christie's, London, UK
- Financial controller
2014 - maintenant
Finance Business Partner for Marketing activities in Christie's, the world’s first fine art auctioneer
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Frenger International, London, UK
- Mergers & Acquisitions analyst
2013 - 2013
Buy-side Mergers & Acquisitions analyst on French, British and German middle-markets.
• Origination & execution: market research (long list & short list), valuation (multiples, DCF), negotiations on financial scheme, due diligence and closing.
• Deals: acquisition of a British distributor by a French one (£20 M), of 2 German industrial firms (€12 M and €3 M) and of a British IT consulting firm (£11 M+ earn-out).
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Akeance Consulting, Paris, France
- Strategy & finance manager for retailing
2011 - 2012
Consultant for INTERMARCHE (n°3 supermarkets business in France behind Carrefour and Leclerc; €30 bn annual revenue; 130,000 employees)
Key responsibilities:
In charge of 7 projects all linked to fast close: processes’ optimisation, finance function redesign, definition of new accounting rules (e.g. monthly accruals)...
Responsible for convincing reluctant stakeholders to buy in the project.
Organised workshops dedicated to change management.
Key achievements:
Decreased in 5 days the issuance of monthly financial reporting and increased its reliability.
Presented P&L impacts of discounts obtained from suppliers (€ 760 M) in a transparent manner.
Defined IT specifications to develop a tool valuing inventories externally stored (12% of stock).
Succeeded to extend the fast close assignment to other Intermarché business lines.
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Air Liquide, Paris, France
- Internal auditor
2007 - 2011
AIR LIQUIDE, Paris, the world leader in industrial & medical gases; listed on CAC 40; €15 billion annual revenue; 50,000 employees in 80 countries:
INTERNATIONAL INTERNAL AUDITOR, IIA (chartered Institute of Internal Auditors) member
Key responsibilities:
• Audit assignments performed in various geographies (Korea, China, USA, Dubai, Russia..) and in all business lines: distribution, Engineering, R&D, homecare, chemicals, diving equipment.
• Operational and compliance audits addressing procure-to-pay, sales and inventories’ management / supply chain, governance (roles & responsibilities, quality of decision tools), as well as financial audits (cash management & treasury, WCR optimisation, long-term contracts’ accounting, pension funds, guarantees granted to customers).
• Substantial sample testing of process, controls and IT access rights to gather evidence to support findings and provide recommendations followed up by corrective action plan.
• Conclusions of the audit review and best practices adopted by others within the Group shared verbally and in writing with the audited entity’s senior management.
Key achievements:
• Leader of international audit teams of 4 (supervised and hands-on participated to audit work).
• Sensitive special audits performed on ethics (fraud prevention, anti-corruption) and on monitoring of financial investments at Group level.
• Emergency reviews done when difficult implementation of IT tool and weak integration post-acquisition (follow-up of synergies obtained versus business plan, harmonisation of processes).
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Air Liquide, Paris, France
- Financial consolidation
2005 - 2007
• Ensured the set up of Group quarterly consolidated P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow statement with the supporting documentation.
• Analysed consolidation packages filled out by 16 subsidiaries including all the German ones to check their accuracy and compliance with Group and international accounting standards.
• Managed the calculation and explanation of the Group WCR and net indebtedness
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Aventis Pharma France
- Corporate finance
Antony
2003 - 2003
SANOFI - AVENTIS PHARMA (€33 bn sales; 110,000 employees),Paris:
Financial restructuring in charge of the successful spin-off of Novexel, a R&D corporation specialised in antibacterial agents.
• Setup the financing and sourced the funds (€40 million) to create an independent biotechnology entity; participated in meetings with external investors (European and US venture capital firms).
• Assessed the assets (premises, bank data and employees) to be transferred into the new entity.
• Daily worked with Mc Kinsey consultants involved in the project.
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BNP Paribas Paris & London
- Mergers & Acquisitions analyst
2002 - 2002
Mergers and acquisitions analyst in Oil, Gas & Mining business areas.
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Deminor, Paris
- Analyst in Rating in Corporate Governance
2001 - 2001
DEMINOR is a consulting firm assisting minority shareholders, Paris
Rating in Corporate Governance of 15 French groups of CAC 40 of based on OECD standards.
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Clifford Chance, Paris
- Internal communication
Paris
2000 - 2000
Set-up of the Intranet of the Paris office; various internal communication projects.
