
Daniel OLIVÈS
Senior Financial Controller
Salary / Daily rate
Luxembourg
Freelance
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Group Controller with 7+ years in financial planning, budgeting, and cost control across global corporations. Expertise in implementing control systems that detect budget discrepancies and creating operational dashboards for C-level executives. Specialized in financial forecasting, project cost management, and ERP systems with proven results in optimizing financial performance.
Work experience
Group Controller
Encevo
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Aperam
Sep 2018 - Jan 2024
5 years 5 months
Luxembourg
Financial Controller
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
2 years 10 months
Luxembourg
Corporate Controller
Sep 2018 - Mar 2021
2 years 7 months
Luxembourg
- Monitoring and supporting IT and R&D platform Global Budget preparation. - Maintain project forecasts to assist the project team with effective financial planning and ensure projects achieve financial expectations. - Assisting and providing Head Managers the financial inputs on the delivery of their business cases (most recent: Single Vendor vs Multi-Vendor approaches and cost-benefit assessment). - Set-up of new control system ensuring a reliable cost follow-up and allowing immediate detection of discrepancies on Actuals vs Budget. - Elaboration of operational dashboards for Senior Management (Head of Finance / CIO / Chief Innovation and R&D Officer). - Defining and following-up the IT & R&D allocation fees scheme within the Aperam subsidiaries. - Assisting the financial global controllers with their monthly/quarterly closings and providing IT & R&D global EBITDA.
Cost Controller
Veolia Water Technologies
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 months
Marseille Area, France
- Assessment of all budgets and cost projections (reporting and consolidated budget). - Management operations in site Rousset. - Cash flow tracking (internal reports reviews). - Overhead cost tracking (miscellaneous transaction) - Assisting the CFO in presenting reports to senior executives and shareholders. - Monthly and annual reports to identify results, trends, and financial forecasts.
Administrative Manager
H10 Hotels
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
7 months
Fuerteventura,Spain
- Administrative tasks : Record financial operation in SAP ERP (invoices , investment expenditures…), monitoring all policies and procedures to ensure compliancy. - Accounting tasks : establish financial statements (monthly income statements and balance sheet) , bank reconciliation, profit margin assessment ( track of updated and strict records of the goods purchased) , accounts receivable / payable ( computing charges and refunds, identify delinquent accounts and insufficient payments). - Audit and cost control tasks: track project expenditures, inventory control (establishment of stocking policies and ‘’abc’’ analysis), conduct month-end food and beverage inventories for restaurants and F&B outlets, cost reporting (monthly F&B cost report and month-end reconciliation report), control of sales department ( front desk and restaurants).
Reservations Coordinator
Accor
Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
7 months
Marseille, France
- Front desk : ensuring customer satisfaction and maximizing hotel revenue by promoting hotel’s services and facilities, booking process via booking software (Fols; Resaweb) , establishment of new partnerships (Studio 555, France pare-brise) and cash revision. - Pricing policy : yield management (room pricing in terms of occupancy rate and demand), Turnover analysis for each customer segment (business and leisure), implementation of preferential rates for profitable segments ( in order to increase occupancy rate during weak period)
Education
Aix-Marseille University
Master Contrôle, Audit et Conseil
2016 - 2018
3 years
KEDGE Business School
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
2014 - 2016
3 years
LYCEE HOTELIER MARSEILLE
Brevet Technicien Superieur Hotellerie- Restauration
2011 - 2014
4 years
lycee francais de Singapour
BAC S : option physique Chimie
2008 - 2011
4 years