With over 13 years of experience in Finance, I am currently working as the Financial Controlling Director at L’Oréal, Finance Head of Consumer Products Division, specializing in delivering business goals and strategy development in a fast paced environment. Together with my team, we strive to build and support to deliver the financial goals of the division and contribute to the growth of business units. My motivation to achieve strategic objectives and create value aligns perfectly with the company's mission and culture. With a diversity- and collaboration-driven approach, I aim to bring different perspectives and experiences to organizations.
Finance Head and Management Committee Member of Consumer Products Division
➢ Delivering the same responsibilities with previous assignment in a more complex and larger business environment, leading a bigger team.
Finance Head and Management Committee Member of Professional Products Division
➢ In charge of holistic P&L and profit management as co-pilot of Division General Manager.
➢ Financial Planning & Analysis: Manage the month-end, trend, and budget reporting calendar, ensuring timely and accurate submissions. Conduct monthly tracking of all Risks & Opportunities and use system reports to decision-making. Strategic partnership with ManCom members to exchange budget, trend, and actual data, ensuring alignment and accuracy.
➢ Cross-functional collaboration: Facilitate regular meetings with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on financial goals and commercial/cost control measures. Provide actionable insights to ManCom members regarding the business implications of spending decisions.
➢ Leadership & problem-solving: Demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit by taking initiative, driving contributions, and striving to improve performance. Build structured action plans to improve work efficiency and propose solutions to enhance organizational effectiveness.
➢ Directly report to the Finance Director, act as the key commercial business partner and advisor to the Management team on all SCF matters.
➢ Responsible from SCF Team of 6 people, who are talented and ambitious to work in fast paced environment.
➢ Overall responsibility for the financial controlling of all Stock, Cogs and ERP systems matters.
➢ Lead month-end closing processes in stock, rebates, cost and monthly margin analysis.
➢ Lead supply chain projects on costs, working capital and process improvement - operating and analyzing rebates processes, profitability among suppliers by categories, stock cover days by warehouses, etc.
➢ Lead and support the internal and external audit processes and ensure compliance with corporate financial accounting policies.
➢ Process owner and key contact of SAP system and local ERP system integration project.
➢ Business Development Activity to drive value realisation in BU & Sustainable year-on-year reductions in cost / increase in ROIC o Partnership to E2E MU Business partner lead and SC LT on Transformational Productivity Projects. o Partnership to E2E MU Business partner lead and SC LT on Business Dev Analysis (Benchmarking, “what if” analysis, financially modelling) o Partnership to E2E MU Business partner lead and SC LT on Major Capex Investment proposals.
➢ Partner with SC E2E Leader’s team on Trade-off & Task mgmt as part of Move AOP sign off ➢ Partner with SC E2E Leader’s team on delivery of BU Move budget o Evaluate Move Performance/ Liaise with SCF Planning Leads and identify any trends that need further performance analysis and intervention o Lead deep-dives to fully understand and address performance issues o Provide input and recommendations on trade-off within BU, budget transfers, opportunity/risk management, tasks, etc.
➢ Capital project oversight. Ensure with support of E2E MU Business partner lead the proper business cases are developed, and review soundness of financial models; probe for alternatives; make recommendations to Sr Leadership.
Design business process and enables KPI for effective monitoring
➢ Provide business performance information and insight to the sales leadership team to enable its financial targets.
Identify and evaluate impact of external events / trends on the operating activities and performance of the business.
➢ Analyze channel performance KPIs and send detailed self-explanatory report to leadership team
➢ Support DMR process and lead conversion of commercial plans to financials and highlight opportunities and risks to leadership team for appropriate actions Lead validation of NRR plans for FS channel
➢ Deliver accurate and timely channel based net revenue plan, forecast and monthly target setting for FS channel.
➢ Analyze volume and gross revenue of FS and recommend scenarios
➢ Prepare Net Price by FS channel Experiences (continued) Partner with senior sales team in governing D&A spent
➢ Partner with Sales team in reporting, planning and governing FS D&A spends
➢ Partner with Sales and RM Strategy teams in building monthly, quarterly, annual FS D&A plans
➢ Trend analysis for sub - channel specific D&A
➢ Analyze customer specific CDAs for FS.
➢ Build, track budget realizations for D&A and ensure budget activations are inline with forecast & AOP.
➢ Preparation of General Administration budget plans/forecasts, trend analysis, revision of related budgets via discussion with budget holders according to the trend analysis
➢ Monitoring and analyzing G&A cost and tracking budget realizations for G&A budget and variance analysis between actuals vs budgets to ensure actuals are in line with forecast & AOP
➢ Financial Governance of Company Payroll Cost via close work with HR, BIS budget, Opex Dashboard, T&E Reporting, Facilities Reporting Tracking, sector submissions for Smart Spending Reporting.
➢ Financial support to G&A budget owners,
➢ Preparation of sector & LT reporting requirements in actual base/fcst/AOP period,
➢ Preparation of G&A analysis reports on monthly basis
➢ Financial support of G&A productivity; validating productivities and tracking Pipeline Projects
➢ Financial support for G&A capex. Tracking G&A capex budget vs AOP/Forecast.
➢ Responsible from the preparation and consolidation of IFRS & SEC financial reports, preparing Boyner Group’s annual budget and reviewing subsidiaries’ budgets.
➢ Preparation of monthly, quarterly, annually internal and external financial reports in compliance with IFRS, including balance sheet, category based profit/loss and cash flow statements.
➢ Performing analytical review of subsidiaries’ actual and budget/business plan figures, providing of monthly management reports to follow up the business performance by proposing adequate corrective actions. ➢ Preparation of subsidiaries’ budgets packages by considering budget assumptions and forecasts and updating the benchmarks if necessary.
➢ Coordination of annual audits of multiple subsidiaries, Responding to inquiries and act as key contact for internal/external auditors
➢ Took significant role in System Implementation on SAP BI Solutions as a part of Financial Transformation Project (Budgeting and Consolidation on SAP BPC).
➢Focused on production clients especially in developing markets and family business.
➢Led audit engagements of top-tier entities in service and production sectors, participated in audit engagements of investment boutiques.
➢Developed a through knowledge in financial statements and accounting.
➢Converted financial statements, prepared according to local GAAP to IFRS by identifying necessary accounting adjustments.