Xavier UHLEN

En résumé

Entreprises

• Kering - Internal Audit Manager - Luxury Division

  Paris 2010 - maintenant Mission: Lead a team of auditors with the objective of providing Management with assurance that risks are promptly identified, adequately and effectively managed with a goal to improve their processes and control framework within their production cycle and retail and wholesale businesses.
  
  Core activities:
  - Management of audits: Financial processes, Industrial processes (manufacturing), Procurement, Inventory management, Logistics, Communication, HR, Intellectual Property. Audits conducted worldwide on points of sale, production sites & affiliate suppliers of the Group’s 10 Luxury brands. Supervision of all audit phases – preparation, fieldwork, closing, reporting and follow-up on audit issues remediation
  
  - Internal Control: In link with PPR HQ, set up of an internal control framework across the Group by identifying risk areas and related key controls, development of a control awareness and best practice sharing, management of a self-assessment tool
  

• Bristol-Myers Squibb - EMEA Internal Control Manager

  Rueil-Malmaison cedex 2005 - 2010 Mission: Build and manage an internal control framework in the EMEA region, to ensure compliance with SOX requirements and alignment to Company’s internal control standards. Develop and implement adequate procedural documents across the region.
  
  Core activities:
  - Compliance to SOX and to internal/external audit recommendations: Manage the SOX reporting process across a network of 26 markets, the financial disclosures to shareholders, coordination with internal and external auditors by developing a risk-based approach of financial processes, conduct tests and self-assessments campaigns, remediate identified weaknesses
  
  - Internal control environment: Ensure implementation of Corporate Policies & Procedures and develop local and regional procedural documents to govern the EMEA Finance organization, in close interaction with Finance, Legal and Compliance departments. Conduct trainings, identify areas for improvement. Subject matter expert for Monitoring of inventory levels, Contract management, Expenditures control, Delegations of Authority, Compliance & Ethics
  

• ACCENTURE - Consultant

  Paris 2000 - 2005 Mission: Conduct consulting projects from audit of processes to recommendation and solution implementation. Main assignments – on average 1 year each: Cégétel/SFR, RTE and Ricoh.
  
  Core activities:
  - Project management: Planning, budget monitoring, financial modeling, KPIs, team coordination within a CRM project for Ricoh Company - 20 people, 4 M€ budget. Project and team manager for an RTE IT Department project - 4 people, 600 K€ budget
  
  - Audit & Recommendation: Lead workshops with operational SFR teams (Finance, IT and Sales departments) to define and specify needs and target processes in the context of a new Back-Office IT System implementation. Proposal of an operational costs reduction strategy for the RTE IT Department
  
  - Change management: coordination of a network of corporate and local IT stakeholders of RTE via communication tools (interactive computer-based tools...) and action plans monitoring. Support to Ricoh sales force in the transition to a new CRM tool: implementation plan, training books development, trainings and coaching (20 salesmen during 3 months)

• Altran - Analyst in Business Development

  Vélizy-Villacoublay 2000 - 2000 Mission: Business Intelligence in European technology consultancy’s market, setting of company prospecting procedures for Altran’s external growth. Constitution of a 50 target companies portfolio, follow-up of the acquisition of 3 targeted firms

Formations

• Grenoble Ecole De Management ESC Grenoble GGSB EMSI

  Grenoble 1997 - 2000

Réseau

• Boris BELLANGER

• Nicolas BECQUEVORT