Finance Business Partnering with the CEO and senior leadership to provide business-oriented financial insights, steer performance, and support decision-making.

• Value Creation Maximization: Analyze financial performance and profitability, identify improvement levers, and implement action plans.
• Strategic Planning: Develop business plans, and guide multi-scenario investment decisions.
• Finance Department Leadership: Structure, coordinate, and elevate the Finance function to a strategic asset that drives value creation across the organization.

Mastering Controlling, cornerstone of effective financial management. 

• Structuration of the Function: Manage and develop the Controlling department (commercial, operations, FP&A, Corporate…), instill best practices, provide mentoring to foster a skilled financial team with a Finance Business Partnering mindset.
• Implementation and Optimization of Controlling Processes: Establish and refine key processes including financial planning and budgeting, period closing and reporting, CAPEX approval, and cost accounting.
• Setup of Decision Support Systems: Deploy BI dashboards and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tools to enhance data-driven decision-making and financial oversight.

Leveraging extensive M&A experience, particularly in the Ingredients sector, to support organizations in key transactions.

• Support Due Diligence: Perform thorough due diligence on target companies, focusing on revenue, P&L, and cash. Evaluate financial health and identify potential risks and synergies, leveraging industry’s financial benchmarks.
• Operational Integration: Integrate the Finance function of the acquired company. Streamline organizations, processes, and systems to ensure a unified financial function that enhances overall operational efficiency and drives value creation.
• Post-Acquisition Strategy and Execution: Develop the post-acquisition business plan, monitor execution against key metrics, and define measures to secure the expected synergies and value creation.

Deploying Pricing management, a formidable lever for enhancing both top line and bottom line. Often underexploited in organizations, implementing pricing strategies through the Finance department can prove to be a game-changer.

• Foster a Pricing Mindset: Establish the Pricing function and cultivate a pricing culture along with best practices within the company.
• Implement a Pricing Governance: Set up price catalogs focusing on value, define price increases targets, and establish approval workflows.
• Define Pricing Strategies and Tactics: Coordinate the annual price increase process, identify cost drivers and price levers, execute pricing actions, and monitor their impact.