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Experienced international finance business partner, Jean-Michel has managed the finance function of a global business division and the EMEA operations at Reuters. He has developed extensive experiences and competencies in financial management, analysis, performance optimization, strategic business planning and change management for various business units (Consulting, Global Sales & Services, e-business, Desktop and SW divisions) Desktop and SW business divisions)
Service Offering
- Performance Management & Optimization
• Identify and align key business drivers with the business unit mission and objectives
• Create modeling tools to optimize operational resources allocations
• Cost structure optimization : define and implement activity based costing modeling and reporting tools
• Identify, analyze and measure financial/business impacts for strategic or operational transformation
- Strategic, planning, budgeting and forecasting reporting capabilities
• Define and implement processes and reporting tools to build effective strategic, planning and budgeting cycles
• Develop modeling tools to prepare and execute business plans (investments, divestments, product launches, new business models, etc)
• Produce acquisition business plans, financial and administrative due diligence and post-integration processes and controls
- Decision making and reporting systems optimization
• Analyze and align existing reporting systems and tools with Finance function and business needs and requirements
• Rationalize and eliminate duplications of non essential reports and tools
• Build and implement a coherent and efficient decision making process and system
• Simplify and standardize control and reporting processes and procedures
- Transition Management
• Lead and manage the finance function for a business unit in France or abroad
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Added Value
- Performance, resources management and business drivers optimization
- Experienced finance business partner, strong business and commercial acumen
- Ability to federate the various levels, functions and business lines of a company
- Manage and nurture highly capable and responsive multicultural, multi-disciplinary and remotely located finance teams ensuring sharing of best practices
- IFRS financial experience at local, regional and group level
- SOX expertise in revenue accounting issues
- Familiar with complex matrix structure and rapidly changing environments
- Results oriented leadership
- Languages : fluent French, English ; working : Dutch and Italian
- International experience and mobility
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Experience & Achievements
- Optimized sales, revenue and profit performance and forecasting accuracy by implementing sales pipeline and bid management reporting and processes
- Defined and implemented planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities and reporting tools for various business units
- Managed business planning, financial due diligence and post-merger integration for a US acquisition
- Built a modeling tool to optimize efficient resources allocations with revenue forecasts
- Define and rolled-out a global reporting system and procedures to analyze profitability by divisions/products/activities/geographies/clients
- Created dashboards, KPIs, benchmarking tools to drive performance optimization
- Produced strategic analysis and recommendations to drive a major European business transformation program : costs reduction, new business models assessments, legacy products migration, functional rationalizations
- Managed integration and training for Asian and American regional finance teams into EMEA
- SOX/IFRS compliance expertise in revenue accounting issues (SW and professional services)
- Implement a research tax credit process for a French SW editor
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