WORK EXPERIENCE
2009 – present VALEO Paris Area, France
May 2012 – present
R&D Management Controller – Comfort and Driving Assistance
Scope size: 2800 Engineers, 430M€ R&D Expenditures.
Quantify Skills and Costs of the Business Group (BG) R&D Resources, and help design the 5-year Footprint and Innovation Strategy, with BG Management and Corporate Strategy Department.
Make R&D internal flows foolproof through Billing Schemes and Contracts, with Corporate Tax Department.
Follow up Costs, Margins and Capitalization of critical or impaired projects.
Provide Functional analysis and deploy Corporate Tools designed to report of R&D Efficiency and Financials on BG.
Help Maximize R&D Revenues: Clients’ side, R&D Tax Credit worldwide, Subsidies.
Apr 2011 – Apr 2012
Management Controller – Access Mechanisms
Scope size: 4300 Employees, 620M€ Sales.
Coordinated and supervised the Product Group (PG) and Headquarters reporting teams.
Produced Monthly Reporting, Budget, and 5-year plan (timelines, guidelines, working files, ERP output and consolidated analyses).
Ensured Reliability of Financial Statements vs IFRS Compliance Policy.
People Management and identification of High Potentials, support for Skills Development of the PG finance network.
Jan 2009 – Mar 2011
Business Management & Headquarters Controller – Access Mechanisms
Scope size: 340 Engineers, 40M€ R&D Expenditures.
Monitored R&D costs of the PG: Projects Budgets, Research Costs and the related Research Tax Credit. Compliance with IFRS, focus on capitalized R&D, evolution of Business Portfolio prospective margins over time.
Supervised PG Monthly Reporting and Forecasts, 5-year Plan, and yearly Budget of R&D. Contributed to 10-year Technology Plan.
Reviewed the Business Cases for Commercial Targets of the 9 divisions and validated Investment Requests on Industrial Launches.
Interim Financial Management of the Headquarters, including Accounts Analysis and ERP reporting (Hyperion).
2007-2008 DUFERCO NOVOLIPETSK Paris Area, France
Budget Control and Reporting Manager – Transformation Europe
Scope size : Sales 700M€
Prepared monthly consolidated Management Reporting of the Transformation Europe Subsidiary Holding for the Shareholders (NMLK Russia, Steel Invest & Finance Belgium).
Developed and coordinated the Annual Budget process, and Quarterly Forecasts, both site wise and consolidated view.
Project Manager for the implementation of a Cost Accounting solution: Functional Analysis and Deployment.
Studied product Cost Pricing, Break-Even points of integrated business units.
2005-2006 SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC Bangalore, India
Management Controller – Global Technology Center India
Scope size : site of 400+ engineers
Main mission: be the Financial Interface between the Bangalore R&D facility and the Corporate Finance organization in France.
Led monthly Financial Performance and KPI’s reporting, including Second class Billing. In charge of quarterly Site Budget.
Improved Project Tracking and Management Reporting. Established the calculation and monitored the variances of the Standard Hourly Rates applied to projects. Monitored financials of projects Outsourced to Tata Elxsi engineers.
Assisted Internal Auditors sent by corporate offices and implement recommended Corrective Actions. Involved in cross-organizational teams for the deployment of SAP in Asia-Pacific offices.
2003-2004 FIDUCIAL, INC. New York, NY
Business Analyst
Developed and maintained Proprietary Finance and Human Resources Management tools serving 500 offices in the US.
Managed various system updates, redesigns, and testing procedures. Documented and investigated system change requests.
Supervised remote programming teams (Kiev, Ukraine).
Provided management with Competitive Analysis.
2001 (3 months) FRANCE TELECOM Paris, France
Internal Audit Mission
Designed quantitative evaluation methods and procedures, developed and implemented nationwide Cost-Reduction model.
EDUCATION
Pace University – Lubin School of Business New York, NY
MBA in International Business, 2002 Summa Cum Laude. Top of the Class.
International Business Department Award for Outstanding Scholarship 2002.
Grenoble Ecole de Management Grenoble, France
Masters in Management, 2002.
Bachelor in Financial Controlling, 2001.
COMPUTER AND OTHER SKILLS
MS Office Package – Relational Databases – SAP Accounting Package – ERP: Hyperion, Essbase, SAP based solutions.
One year Intensive training in Maths: « Maths Sup » program at Lycée du Parc, Lyon, 1997.
Languages: Native French, Fluent English, Intermediate German, some notions of Spanish and Italian.
