Olivier Pelletier

Leading the Finance, HR and Fraud operations of the company following the acquisition of Loco2 by OUi.SNCF, and the restructuration of the International Division. Developing scalable processes to help Loco2 cope with its Hyper Growth!

- Driving Loco2 financial planning and analysis from monthly closing to budgeting.

- Integration of Loco2 within the Oui.SNCF and Rail Europe processes; providing a clearer picture of the entities' performance versus Prior Year, Forecast and Budget.

- Managing the accounting of the UK and French entities (UK GAAP, French GAAP and IFRS).

- Overseeing audit and internal control operations, including automation of finance systems.

- Preparing timely and detailed reports on financial performance on a monthly basis.

- Conducting analysis to make monthly forecasts and report to the management team and to the board.

- Designing new and scalable processes and ensuring the effective and efficient coordination of the Loco2 product and back-office systems.

- Ensuring compliance with group accounting and reporting processes, including adherence to financial laws and guidelines.

- In charge of the tax matters (R&D Grant, tax computation...)

- Redesign of the monthly closing process in order to achieve a closing in 3 days

- Being responsible for managing foreign exchange risk within the company

- Overseeing the payment and fraud operations through Braintree and Kount

- Overseeing the remuneration process from payroll to annual reviews

- Cash Management (Forecasting, Optimisation...) and relationship with the banks

- Discussion/Negociation with the rail Operators and third parties

- Preparation of HR KPIs

- Management of a team of 3

Hired to ensure a smooth integration of Luckey (Hosting Services company) within Airbnb eco-system, track the performance of the company, ensure budget compliance during a period of hyper growth and strategic refocus and run day-to-day finance operations | $30M booking value, x3 YoY, $5M Opex ; up to 50 employees (x 3 YoY), reporting to the BU Manager (Paris) and Finance Director (San Francisco).

- Full Migration of the accounting to Workday within 3 months

- Creation of a dedicated Business Unit, « Hosting Services », to ensure a better visibility of the performance ( Booking Value, FTE, OPEX…) within Airbnb’s eco-system

- Redefined closing processes to ensure compliance with Airbnb’s standards: Revenue D-2 & Full closing D+1

- Redefining the Procure-to-Pay process in coordination with the Buyers and AP teams to ensure compliance with internal processes (« IPO Readiness »)

- Set-up a new Budget and Forecast process including a split by Owner and BU, with monthly variances analysis

- Creation of the Finance Operation Team (KYC/revenue compliance and daily matching of the cash-in …)

- Managing the relationship with third parties: Auditors, Legal, External accountant, Banks, Suppliers…

- Leading a team of 3 based in Paris and Dublin

Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer

- Improved budget efficiency; developed new budget bottom-up process, working with new cross-functional partners to support and guide key accounting and risk factors; encouraged ownership and accountability through generation of better management information by region, product line and department.

- Optimised new ERP configuration; increased speed and utility of report production (Netsuite/ SAP-FC).

- Created rapid, insightful global monthly or ad hoc reports for cross-functional partners.

- Worked closely with business managers to build reports through integrated and collaborative tools across Salesforce, HR software and Netsuite. Analysis of monthly financial reporting / variance analysis. Created models that projected cost control and enabled quick forecast and decision-making.

- Worked cross-functionally to clarify recruitment process and staff rewards.

- Cultivated cohesive relationship with sales team; provided support and guidance to help individuals understand their performance and discussed efficient commissions structures & levers with Sales Director.

- Enhanced management information; defined standard KPIs for new regional MDs and global budget holders.

- Developed high calibre team; recruited and trained Finance Business Partner in Asia and France.