
Senior Business Controller at Syngenta Crop Protection
Paris Area, France

Senior Business Controller at Syngenta Crop Protection
Paris Area, France
After 5 years in the Automotive Industry as Financial Analyst in the Diesel area, I am developping my knowlegde and network in the Agro Chemical Industry as Business Controller.
One of my goal would be to cross these two experiences in a business creation/devlopment project related to Algae transformation for carbone management and biodiesel prodcution.
On the other side, I have created a blog related to Robotics activities to promote business creation in this sector by providing business and financial advises at early stage (Business Plan, Financial Business Case, Market overview...)
Financial Business Evaluation: Manufacturing Strategy, JV, customer quotations
Financial Business Planning
Project tracking
Investment Evaluation: Capex, new plant
Product Line Budget comptrolling
Financial Project Management: cost management project implementation
Pricing controlling: accruals and price structure knowledge & management, closing & reporting
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYT; Chemicals industry)
March 2008 — Present (10 months)
Pricing Management: run monthly closing of price variation vs budget, analyse variances by product
Rebate Accrued Controlling: control provision level vs updated prices, check and alert the Financial Director in case of accruals gap. Make sure SAP is properly updated in term of discounted information in relationship with the Customer Department. Animate monthly Review Meeting with Commercial Department.
Discount Payment Controlling: control accruals and customers payments on a monthly basis
Budget Controlling: update actual / forecast of Commercial Budget on a monthly basis
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)
June 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Business Evaluation: support Customer Quotation, Joint Venture and Manufacturing Strategy opportunities with financial evaluation including value analysis
Project Management: financial representative in 9 project teams, review, approve and alert Executive staff of financial value deviation during project meeting
Change Management: Change Review Board Member , review and approve request for technical changes
Direct Management: manage 1 Financial Analyst on quotation and financial projects
Training: organize and animate Financial Training for Sales, Project and Production Engineers
Accounting: received internal US GAAP Training
(Public Company; Automotive industry)
July 2003 — June 2006 (3 years)
IT Development: participate to the creation of Web application for on-line investment request
Financial Analysis: consolidate costs, run and submit Business Case for Customers Quotations and Investment (>$500K) of 4 Product Lines
Project Controlling: update Business Case and track project Financial Performance over 9 Engineering Project Teams
Budgetary Controlling: participate to the budgetary process of 4 Product lines, control monthly actual/ forecast vs. the budget (Income Statement, Capex)
(Public Company; Automotive industry)
October 2002 — July 2003 (10 months)
Release of Fund Tracking: control the level of tooling spending vs. the corporate authorized amount
Purchasing Performance Controlling: consolidate and analyze the actual/forecast costs of 80 references vs. the Budget
(Public Company; Chemicals industry)
February 2002 — August 2002 (7 months)
Sourcing Analysis: analyze suppliers quotations, develop the cost reduction scenarios (method based on AT Kearney model), web survey of supplier’s base
Suppliers Negotiation: participate to 2 supplier’s negotiations, help for the presentation preparation
Logistic Project Evaluation: estimate the project feasibility of a logistic platform
(Privately Held; Biotechnology industry)
2002 — 2002 (less than a year)
(Construction industry)
July 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 3 months)
IT development : develop and test IT specifications for accounting modules, manage accounting data flow on database with MySQL and SQL+.
Users Interface: build users documentation, train end-users, operate help desks support
ERP Project Management: check and build the functional evaluation of the ERP, budget the training and identify the Project Risk Planing within Screg Belgium (Brussels)
New technology: robotics (see my blog), nanotechnology, biotechonology (start Market study on Seaweeds) BodyBoard Modern Art