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Xavier Dessert

CFO, DAF / Contrôle de gestion / Business partner

€850/day
Lyon, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Xavier

Job personnalité :
 Esprit vif, curieux et créatif, bénéficiant d’une grande aisance pour les chiffres, et d’un bon sens des affaires.
 Vision stratégique et orientée marché, performance.
 Business Partner, leader, volontaire et dynamique. Sens de l’équipe, l’ensemble est bien souvent plus efficace que l’individu.
 Forte appétence pour les nouvelles technologies, pour la mise en œuvre de solutions facilitant le quotidien et boostant la productivité.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Flexitech europe
    Transition manager - Europe & holdings Finance Officer
    AUTOMOBILE
    January 2025 - November 2025 (10 months)
    Lyon, France
    - Ensure continuity within the operations in a vacancy context and important pressure from Shareholders
    - Finance teams management (accounting, treasury and controlling), cost center signator and internal control owner
    - Responsibility for the quality of monthly closings (balance sheet, cash flows, capex), KPI's and analysis of results
    - Cash mgt in a context of high debt (LBO) and Administrative management (banks, insurance, contracts, tax and regulatory)
    - Group project manager for E-invoicing and dematerialization implementation
    Management d'équipe Corporate Finance LBO Cash management Management de transition
  • SBM Life Science
    Transition manager
    CHEMICAL
    May 2023 - November 2024 (1 year and 7 months)
    Écully, France
    - Ensure continuity within the operations in a company redundancy context and general manager change
    - Business partnership with sales to set processes and improve commercial performance (pricing, agreements,...)
    - Balance sheet and P/L certification : lead and develop the finance team, implement process and drive productivities
    Réorganisation Profitability Management Contrôle de gestion Corporate strategy GMB
  • Gerflor
    INTERNATIONAL FINANCE MANAGER
    CHEMICAL
    November 2016 - April 2022 (5 years and 6 months)
    - Drive projects and performance, share and arbitrate priorities - board / local management
    - Ensure group strategy is shared with distribution subs., with adequate but optimized ressources and controlled risk
    - Activity (sales productitity and margin), costs (selling expenses, investments and returns,…) and projects steering vs plan/profits
    - Ensure integration of acquisitions as group integration project leader
    - DLW FLOORING integration project leader (acquisition 2018/03 - 55M€ sales + production plant - 350 FTE)
    - Implementation of dynamic sales reporting (PowerBi - multidimensional analysis)
    - Implementation of Tagetik for group reporting and consolidation (2021)
    - Legal entities creation
    - Owner of local and group consolidated budget process
    Stratégie d'entreprise International Business Build-up Contrôle de gestion Contrôle interne

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Education

  • Master II Audit and controlling
    INSEEC LYON
    2011
    Master II Audit and controlling
  • Bachelor of Business
    EM Lyon / ESC St
    2010
    BBA – Bachelor in business administration

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