Chief Financial Officer

- France,


Leila BENABOUD

Chief Financial Officer

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

Résumé

Highly motivated, dynamic and detail-oriented, I’m financial controller who thrives in high-pressure environments, provides key financial data support and an excellent financial reporting to assist in the key business decision. Having a good communication skill and ability to build strong relationships both within and outside of a finance department as well as effectively communicating financial information to non-finance colleagues. Possessing strong financial control and rigorously ensuring that all statutory and corporate obligations are met.

Éducation

  • Master, Comptabilité et finance — Clermont School of Business (1/1/2008 - 1/1/2012)

Expériences professionnelles

  • Chief Financial Officer chez Non-Profit Organization (8/1/2023 - )
    Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France · Remote
    ● Established internal financial activities and accounting systems
    ● Oversaw cash flow management and tracked KPIs to analyze trends
    ● Budgeted current and future programs, developing comprehensive financial reports
    ● Communicated financial status to stakeholders, presenting financial statements
    ● Coordinated audit activities and represented the organization to public officials
    ● Set up accounting ERP for streamlined daily transactions
  • Chief Financial Officer - CFO chez Techni Modul Engineering (4/1/2021 - 2/1/2023)
    Coudes, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
    Board of Directors member, managing a team of 1 collaborator

    - CFO :
    • Budget: Annual budget review, analyzing gaps, constant communication with group CFO’s.
    • Commercial controlling : sales reporting and margin analysis
    • Accounting :
    o Accounts Receivables: Managing accurate ledgers for entity ensuring receipts are posted and allocated, assisting with invoicing and renewals, monitoring accounts to identify overdue invoices, ensuring timely collection of balances due
    o Accounts Payable: Ensuring proper general ledger, processing employee expense claims, prepare weekly supplier payment runs for approval
    o Tax: Assisting external accountants with preparation and reconciliation of quarterly VAT returns by providing all required documents
    o Year-end-close/Auditing: Working with external auditors to assist with year-end audit queries for the entity, answering any of their questions (financial or commercial) and managing the relationships between accountants and auditors to deliver the financial documents in due time, preparing the impairment test.
    • Internal controlling : implementation of new procedures , IFRS mapping (French to IFRS)
    • Treasury: Dealing with banks, follow the treasury, control, and prevent any risk for the company, managing and optimizing cash flow on multiple bank accounts, monitoring payment terms and forecasting future cash flow, optimizing cash on hand
    • Project management: Managing diverse projects such as looking to another accounting partners, getting corporate credit cards, getting estimates for third-party services, set-up cost center structure.

    - HR
    • Interview, delivery employee contract, dealing with all HR aspect.
    • Implementation of new laws
  • Financial Planning Analyst chez COOPER SECURITE SAS (3/1/2018 - 4/1/2021)
    Riom, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
    - Budget: annual budgeting process, monthly monitoring and analysis, regular communication of budget performance to senior management, periodic review of the annual budget (forecasting)
    - Industrial controlling: annual cost roll, standard cost calculation and control (labor rates, BOMs and Routines), purchasing price variances, inventory control and optimization (annual count, cycle count ABC method), productivity
    - Commercial controlling : sales reporting (customers, products), margin analysis, price/mix/volume effects
    - Internal controlling : implementation and monitoring of group procedures, database control
    - Support & Others: Support and assistance to the decision to various managers (Daily, weekly, monthly reporting), relation with auditors, monthly US GAAP, annual FR GAAP statutory accounts
  • Business partner Sales & Marketing chez Michelin (7/1/2016 - 8/1/2017)
    Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
    • Providing new controlling support to drive the business more efficiently:
    - Improvement of management reporting.
    - Decrease of manual adjustment by eradication the root causes.
    • Responsible for budgeting and forecast.
    • Recommendation of an action plan to achieve the target.
  • Financial Controller - consolidation chez Renault Trucks (1/1/2013 - 12/1/2013)
    Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
    • Support the new Purchasing Organization by ensuring all IT systems and data quality.
    • Coordination with IT department.
    • Creation of new KPI’s to tie in the new organization.
    • Compilation of 4 continents data (North America, South America, Europe, Asia).
    • Identify and develop controls and processes to ensure all risks and opportunities are highlighted.
    • Broad Knowledge of financial management and client expectation.
    • Producing meaningful commentary and analysis of financial data.
  • Business Controller chez Renault Trucks (9/1/2011 - 12/1/2012)
    Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
    • Secure financial quality data.
    • Creation of a new travel report to track the wastage.
    • Preparing the forecasting and budgeting process.
    • Analyzing multiple sources of data.