CV of Gérant et consultant indépendant / Consultant financier , looking for a job of directeur financier / banques.enligne-ch.com

Current industry: Conseil financier

Size of the company: 1-5 employees

Current position: Gérant et consultant indépendant

Number of years spent at this position: 3-5 years

Number of persons you managed: 0

Annual salary: 100000.00 EUR

Total working experience: more than 15 years

Availability: Immediate availability

Positions: consultant financier, agent bancaire indépendant,

Industry: Tous les secteurs, ,

Desired type of contract: open-ended contract, fixed term contract, Fixed-term / casual work, Temporary work, Agent's contract

Desired working time: Full-time, Part-time, Study-work program, One-day assignments, Seasonal work, Available on Week-ends

Minimum annual salary desired: 75000.00 / 0.00 EUR

Highest educational level completed: number of years studied and completed with a diploma after highschool : +5

Last diploma : Licence spéciale en revisorat et expertise comptabme

Current educational level : +5

Other training courses :

Geographical mobility: Country : South Africa, Albania, Algeria, Germany, , Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, British Indian Ocean Terr..., British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Brazil, Bulgaria, Rwanda, Western Sahara, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Gre..., Saint Barthélemy, San Marino, Saint Lucia, Samoa, American Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, South Georgia and the Sou..., South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Aland Islands

Known Tools / Software/ Methods ABS, Baan, quickboobs, etc...

HGV, LGV, special vehicles licences B

Languages French : Native

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1200 Bruxelles
Belgium

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Experienced and passionate expatriate CFO with proven record of
establishing cross-functional partnerships to deliver stellar results. Agile, global
strategic leader driving operations within geology, mining operations, plant,
analytics and business development areas in major and mid-tier mining companies.
Accountable for multi-million dollar budgets and allocating resources to exceed
profit and returns. Particularly adept at streamlining, reorganizing and leading
large, regional staffs productively in complex and challenging environments.







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Global
Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis







Tax
& Compliance









P&L
Ownership & Management







Talent
Selection, Development & Retention









Budgeting,
Forecasting & Ad hoc Analysis







Treasury
– Financing and FX









Organizational
Re-engineering







Consulting,
Entrepreneur mentality





Education

SPECIAL mASTER’S
DEGREE IN aCCOUNTING AND CPA | 1996 | HAUTE ECOLE FRANCISCO
FERRER (heff)-BRUSSELS-BELGIUM

·
Major: Accounting (curriculum
in French)

1^st master’s degree in
business and financial management | 1994 | HUB-KAHO –
brussels - belgium

·
Major: International
Relations (curriculum in Dutch)


master’s degree in business and
financial management | 1993 | heff – brussels - belgium

·
Major: International Economy
(curriculum in French)

·
Thesis: Doing business in
Romania

·
Minor: certificates in
International Financial Management and Markets, Accountancy


Graduate in
insurance | 1990 | heff – brussels - belgium

·
Major: Industrial Risks (I.A.R.D.
– non life insurance) and Life Insurance (Actuarial mathematics)

·
Minor: Reinsurance


Skills & Abilities

Management

· Political:
solid reputation, management by setting example, integer and loyal, having
built a strong network within the mining industry in Africa and ability to establish
connections.

· Conceptual:
Planning, making decisions, and problem solving

·
Interpersonal:
Selecting and developing the right people - Managing discipline
and dealing with conflict - Delegating effectively - Understanding team
dynamics and encouraging good relationships - Motivating people. Communicating.


· Diagnostic:
catalyst in visualizing and proposing most appropriate responses, plans to
challenges

· Technical:
Expertise in finance, Supply Chain, Mining, Contract, etc….

Sales

·
Preparation skills, listening
and asking good questions, discipline, presentation skills, understand customer
needs

·
Mainly sales skills oriented to
both internal (peers, colleagues, Board directors…) and external (bank, tax
authorities, audit, and government agencies) stakeholders.

Communication

·
Ability to convey ideas and messages in
different languages, experience to communicate effectively at all levels, pride
myself on responding to customer inquiries within a day’s time

Leadership

·
Participative leader by accepting input from
one or more group members when making decisions and solving problems, but as financial
leader, I retain the final say when choices are made.

Experience

1.
In the mining Sector, since
Jan 2007

FOUNDER Managing director | RBC sprl (Limited)

1)
Jul 14 – Aug 15: Interim CFO for
a junior mining company with significant mining assets in Africa. Deal with
mining convention negotiations, tax planning, funding, etc…

2)
Jan 16 – Aug 16: CFO for a
listed company active in the palm oil sector in Nigeria

3)
Sep 16 – May 17: free-lance consultant in the banking sector
in Belgium

4)
Since Jun 17: CFO for two companies
in Ivory Coast

CFO and Company secretary | african
underground mining services limited (Ghana – West Africa) – MINING SERVICES
COMPANY | feb 13 – Jun 14

· In charge of the group (regional) financial and Supply Chain (SC)
activities across AUMS entities (Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso)

·
Reduction of month-end and
year-end reporting to shareholders, coupled with earlier statutory and group
financial statements audits signature date

·
Improvement of the working
capital (inventory reduction, payables strategy and receivables)

·
Having been involved in
insurance, external financing (review of facilities…), cash flow, transfer
pricing, Treasury including FX, Shared Services Center, catalyst for presenting
strategic Board papers (financing, organization of shared services, FX,
inventory reduction, SC road map towards excellence…), systems improvement
(Pronto, QlikView)

·
Turnover: $ 306 m. (FY13) and $ 243 m. (Forecast FY14)-
EBITDA 55 m. and EBIT 27 m., Finance headcount from 150 FTE till 90 FTE (after
reorganization to take place)



Senior Finance
Manager and board director | semos and yatela – anglogold ashanti
(Mali – west africa) – GOLD MINE| jan 11 – jan 13

·
In charge of the two gold
mines financial and SC activities, including Legal

·
Business advisor for the GM
and the Board colleagues

·
Decrease of inventories,
review of corporate policies (stock pile), focus on better management
reports, increase the SOX internal controls, build strong teams

·
Pivotal contact with the
shareholders (AngloGold Ashanti, IAMGOLD and Malian Government), community
(closure and rehabilitation plan)

·
Engaged in the Sadiola
Sulphide Projects (SSP)

·
Implementation of TM1
(actuals, forecast, budgets)

Turnover: $ 500 m. for Au 400 Koz (spot gold price at 1,250 per
ounce) – Headcount: 100 FTE


Country commercial manager (ST contract) | newcrest
(Ivory coast- west africa) – GOLD MINE | jun 10 –nov. 10

·
Accountable for all Ivory
Coast Finance, SC and IS/IT departments

·
Facilitate the take-over
process of Lihir Gold by Newcrest (by restructuring the organizational chart)

·
Completion of the Strategic
Business Plan (SBP) for their West
African mining assets (implementation of HFM)

·
Champion the Ellipse (Mincom)
ERP implementation


Group Director finance | compagnie
des bauxites de guinee (cbg - guinea –
west africa) | sep.09 – may 10

·
In charge of all Finance, SC
and IS/IT departments

·
Manage the JV partners (49%
Government of Guinea and 51% private shareholders with Rio Tinto Alcan, Alcoa
and Dadco)

·
Main challenges were to align
the company towards world standards, better control, cost reductions,
creation and implementation of policies and procedures)

·
Turnover: $ 500 m. –one of
largest bauxite exporter in the world – Team of 160 FTE (40 for accounting,
it 35 and SC 85)




CFO | Salt investment (djibouti
– east africa) | sep 08 – may 09

·
In charge of all Finance,
administration, IS/IT and procurement tasks

·
Brownfield project in solar
salt mining in Djibouti backed by a US Private Equity (PE) - $ 80 m. project

·
Have put in place internal
controls, proper accounting procedures, financial software (QuickBooks)
before an ERP implementation

·
Project has been put on hold
later on due to project cost excess


finance director | kamoto
operating limited (kolwezi – DRC – central africa) – COPPER AND COBALT MINE | jan
07 – sep 08

·
Financial responsible of
Katanga Mining assets in Kolwezi (2^nd then largest investment in
DRC)

·
Capex (outside EPCM project)
$ 475 m. – headcount total of 3,800 FTE (after DCP / Nikanor) absorption

·
Quarterly audits with PwC DRC


·
Rebuild and ramp up the
financial department

·
Get involved into the
take-over by absorption of DCP / Nikanor by KOL

·
In the mining Sector, since
Jan 2007


2.
In the Construction Sector
for 16 months

financial & administration
director | number one contracting (kinshasa – drc – central
africa) | sep 05 – dec 06

·


·
World Bank / US road
construction projects in DRC

·
Recruitment of new staff –
controlling of financial operations in all DRC projects (7) – cost control,
procedures

·
Expatriates management

·
Strong focus on the cash flow
and the working capital




3.
In the Shipping Sector: 3.5
years for AP Moller in two countries

financial director | maesrk
congo drc (kinshasa – drc – central africa) | feb 03 – jan 05)

·
Involved in creating from
scratch new shipping agencies in DRC (Kinshasa, Matadi and Boma)

·
In charge of accounting
matters but also HR, administration, IS & IT, maritime licenses, etc…

·
Payback period was less than
1 year as the market share for AP Moller group was dominating the competition

·
Participation as observer of
each Board Meeting – preparation of all investments / projects


Finance & administration manager | portlink
nv (Antwerp – belgium) | aug 01 – jan 03

·
Managing the F&A
department of this short sea shipping company in Belgium and abroad
(Portugal, France, Spain, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands)

·
Advising MD on the financial
implications of commercial decisions

·
Improvement of invoicing,
credit and cost controls

·
Partnering the CEO, and
working with senior management to develop growth strategies (Business
Development)




4.
In the consulting sector:
more or less 4 years



freelance consultant | own
compaNy in drc (Kinshasa – central africa) | feb 05 – aug 05

·
Report with 140 recommendations
to a local manufacturing company in DRC to improve the bottom line

·
Due diligence process of a
poly-propylene company for a take-over

·
Commercial representation in
DRC for a Belgian company active in the cathodic protection (oil companies,
refineries, port authorities, etc…)


project manager, pre-sales and business
consultant in baan erp | consultants resources europe (cr europe) –
brussels - belgium | feb 99 – jul 01

·
BPR projects

·
BaaN ERP finance
implementation advises: Levi’s Strauss EMEA, GTI Trailers, British Steel,
Puratos, Vanenburg Systems Services

·
Project management with
Seaboard Corp (in Haiti)


business consultant – baan finance | pa
consulting group (brussels – belgium) | feb 98 jan 99

·
Creation with Proloq company
of a n attribute driven Model Reference for BaaN ERP (I was dedicating to the
finance business processes for the Multi-Dimension industries (e.g. steel,
paper & pulp, textile).

·
This Model reference had been
sold to Usinor, Avesta Sheffield and British Steel Distribution

·
This project has been done in
Veenendaal, in the Netherlands during one year






business consultant | computer
sciences corporation (csc, brussels, belgium) | sep 97 –feb 98

·
SAP FI/CO training during
some months and due to absence of customers, training has been rescheduled to
BaaN ERP




5.
In the Audit sector

financial auditor | price
waterhouse, luxemburg | sep 96 – aug 97

·
Conducted various statutory
audits in banks, investments funds, private equity, insurance and reinsurance
companies, and manufacturing companies




6.
In the Food sector for 2
years

export manager | jova
sa (liege, belgium) | jun 94 – aug 96

·
Starting to develop the
export activities for this producer of fine meat products

·
Negotiations of contracts in
Western Europe countries

·
Promotion campaigns,
profitability analysis, price structure creation


Others skills:



Languages:

· French:
mother tongue

· English:
fluent

· Dutch:
Fluent (partially studied and worked in this language)

·
Romanian:
fluent (after a refreshment)

· German:
very good notions verbally and in writing.

IS & IT:

·
Methodology: Catalyst (CSC) – Pace (PA Consulting
Group), RTA (Price Waterhouse_

·
Software: MS Office 2010 and Windows 8,
Mincom Ellipse, JD Edwards (Oracle), Pronto, QlikView, TM1



MISCELLANEOUS:


·
IFRS: specifically on the mining sector

·
Syscohada:

·
Recruited by Safmarine based in
Belgium (AP Moller) in 2001 as a Safmarine Management Intake Program - SMIP candidate (7 young talents recruited
with a specific profile – multilingual, having already been expatriate)

·
Get a scholarship in Jul / Aug.
1992 by the Commissariat General aux Relations Internationales (CGRI Belgium)
for learning Romanian (at Cluj University)

·
Refused due to work a
scholarship for an Economics PhD in Romania in 1994

·
Hobbies: half marathon,
reading, interest in Private Equity (PE)

·
Febelfin (bank sector in
Belgium)accreditation: PCP Bank, insurance and credit

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