Olivier ANSSEAU

En résumé

Entreprises

• Ascend Performance Materials Europe - FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION DIRECTOR EMEAI/COO

  2010 - 2015

• Bridgestone Europe - Corporate Audit Senior Manager

  BETHUNE 2008 - 2010 Bridgestone is the largest global manufacturer of tires and rubber-based products. Bridgestone Europe supervises an organization of 12,500 employees. Sales of Bridgestone in Europe totalled 3.5 billion EUR in 2012.
  
  Responsibilities
  * Overall responsibility for the Bridgestone Internal Audit function in Europe
  * Management of the European Corporate team (Belgium) and of several local teams in Europe
  * Reporting to the European Audit Committee
  
  Major contributions
  * Creation of the pan-European Internal Audit structure
  * Active involvement in the implementation of the JSOX procedures

• Mölnlycke Health Care (Corporate - Sweden) - Finance Director Sales Operations

  2006 - 2008 Mölnlycke Health Care is a world-leading provider of single-use surgical and wound care products for healthcare professionals and patients.
  
  Responsibilities
  * Financial control of sales subsidiaries in Europe, Middle East, Africa - Surgical Business Unit (budget/forecast, analysis, consolidation...)
  * Optimization of reporting processes and financial communication
  * Representative of the Sales Operations in IT projects
  
  Major contributions
  * Resource planning of sales subsidiaries
  * Investments - business cases - follow up
  * Coaching of local Finance Managers and staff

• Mölnlycke Health Care (France) - Finance & Administration Director

  2002 - 2006 French subsidiary of the Mölnlycke Health Care Group.
  
  Responsibilities
  * Full liability on administrative and financial aspects of the French subsidiary (finance, human resources, tenders, logistics, IT)
  * Coordination of the ``French'' team activities at the European Customer Service Centre located in Belgium
  
  Major contributions
  * Integration of activities after the acquisition of the 'Barrier ' and `Hibi' product portfolios
  * Re-engineering of the internal reporting, which allowed a complete reorientation of business priorities
  * Active collaboration in the implementation of a coherent, homogeneous and equitable remuneration scheme
  * Drastic reduction of customer receivables (DSO reduced from 160 to 53 days) in 18 months
  * Crisis management - huge delivery issues inked to an IT crash at the European Distribution Centre

• Mölnlycke Health Care (Corporate - Sweden) - Corporate Business Controller

  1999 - 2002 Responsibilities
  * Corporate Controlling - Integrated Supply Chain (from procurement to distribution)
  * Budget, reporting, forecasting... coordination
  * Calculation, coordination and control of transfer pricing at the group level
  
  Major contributions
  * Coordination of all 'partnership' aspects (financial, legal, administrative and accounting) of the foundation of the Karviná factory in Czech Republic
  * Coordination of all financial and legal aspects of the new Distribution Centre (financial planning, sell and lease-back, staff transfer...)
  * Creation and management of the Master Data team during the transition to a new ERP system

• Mölnlycke Health Care (Belgium) - European Logistic Centre Controller

  1998 - 1999 EUROPEAN LOGISTIC CENTRE - MöLNLYCKE HEALTH CARE
  Responsibilities
  * Financial control of the European Distribution Centre (reporting, budgets, customs, VAT...)
  * Full financial responsibility for several profit centres (including a joint venture in Thailand, a depot in France...)
  * Calculation and coordination of local transfer pricing activities
  
  Major contributions
  * Hands-on treasury/cash management and support to activities relating to statutory accounts of the Belgian entity (proactive cancellation of a service level agreement)
  * Management of all financial aspects liked to the set-up of a joint-venture company with an Irish partner
  * Collaboration in the creation of a shared Accounting Services Centre (Sweden)
  * Active role in the establishment of centralized cash-pooling solution at the Group level
  * Establishment of the financial model and reporting processes relating to the set-up of a centralized Customer Service Centre (Belgium)

• HôPpitaux Notre-Dame et Reine Fabiola - Internal Audit Director

  1997 - 1998 Responsibilities
  * Operational/financial audits
  
  Major contributions
  * Creation and implementation of the Internal Audit function
  * Completion of management procedures relating to the procurement and storage of pharmaceutical products

• Cockerill Sambre Group - Corporate Internal Auditor & acting - Mgr

  1991 - 1997 Before the huge restructuring that led to the creation of the Arcelor-Mittal group, Cockerill-Sambre was one of the leading steel manufacturer in Europe. In 1991, the turnover was about 4.3 billion EUR , with 25,000 workers in more than 200 subsidiaries around the world.
  
  Responsibilities
  * Operational, financial and organizational audits
  * Set-up of the audit plan
  * Recommendations and follow-up missions
  * Specialization in specific activities of the Group (``building'' and ``environment)'' and by geographic areas (Northern Europe and France)
  
  Major contributions
  * Complete re-engineering of all internal procedures of the Department
  * Training of young colleagues
  * Full management of the Department (2 years) and presentation of the audit findings and recommendations to the Board of Directors
  * Contradictory audit (vs. Lyonnaise des Eaux) - sale of a subsidiary active in industrial cleaning
  * Acquisition audit (vs. Boël Group) (due diligence and recovery of local activities) of a rolling mill

• Walloon Region of Belgium - Ministerial Attaché & Economic Counsellor

  1989 - 1991 Economic Attaché at the Cabinet of the Minister in charge of Foreign Trade and New Technologies
  
  Responsibilities
  * Management of subsidies for exporting companies
  * Economic counsel
  * Institutional relations - Belgian and European regions, Federal State
  * Representative (in Belgium and abroad) of the Walloon Region, and singularly, of the Minister of Foreign Trade and New Technologies
  
  Major contributions
  * Development and finalization of economic cooperation agreements with European regions (Kent, Baden-Württemberg)
  * Establishment of a statistical indicator brochure about Wallonia (in collaboration with UWE)
  * Collaboration in the creation of Stewardship Services Centres for export (La Louvière, Mons, Mouscron...)

• UCL Mons - Trainer

  1989 - 1991 Training for professionals
  
  Occasional responsibilities
  * Inventory of all public subsidies to companies
  * Training on accounting methods for public subsidies

Formations

• CUNIC (Charleroi)

  Charleroi 1990 - 1991 Postgraduate in Social Communication

• UCL Mons (Mons)

  Mons 1988 - 1989 Master in Applied Economics
  
  Controlling and Auditing

• UCL Mons (Mons)

  Mons 1985 - 1988 Certificate in Applied IT Science

• UCL Mons (Mons)

  Mons 1983 - 1988 Business Engineer

Réseau

• Benoît LIÉNARD

• Bruno ARNOULD

• Jennifer CASTIAUX

• Joël MARINOZZI

• Vincent TRUYENS

• Xavier NOËL

• Yoann CLOET