
Fabrice Berté
Senior CFO | Corporate Finance & Strategy
Salaire / Taux journalier
92300 Levallois-Perret, France
Freelance, ouvert au CDI
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À propos
Introduction
Seasoned CFO with 25+ years of corporate finance expertise across data tech, industrial, and pharma sectors. Led IPO processes, M&A transactions, and managed P&Ls up to €350M at companies like Weborama and Honeywell. Specialized in financial restructuring, strategic planning, and operational optimization for high-growth and turnaround situations.
Expérience de travail
Administrateur
FORGEL S.A.Freelance
juil. 2024 - Présent
2 ans 4 mois
Équipements industriels en froid-chaud-climatisation et maintenance. Mise en œuvre au quotidien des énergies renouvelables dans le cadre professionnel. Fabrication de meubles frigorifiques de vente sur mesure et l’aménagement de magasins alimentaires. +85 ans d’existence + 100 collaborateurs + 5000 clients + 96% de satisfaction QUALIBAT 5312 Installations thermiques de génie climatique ATTESTATION DE CAPACITÉ pour manipuler les fluides frigorifiques sous le n°12034 conforme au Code de l’Environnement. FORGEL appartient au réseau Unergies. Ce réseau d’entrepreneurs indépendants de tout groupe (du type fournisseurs d’énergies, majors du BTP ou encore groupes financiers) évolue avec une connaissance approfondie de nos métiers.
Directeur administratif et financier Groupe / CFO Group
Weborama
déc. 2017 - Présent
8 ans 11 mois
Région de Paris, France
A new kind of data company Weborama is a global data company and the independent worldwide leader in semantic profiling. Weborama brings structure and value to the largest Web data sets to understand and target audiences at the individual level.
Directeur administratif et financier
Elster member of Honeywell group
mars 2015 - déc. 2017
2 ans 10 mois
Paris Area, France
Water Metering Division over France, Belgium, Netherlands and French speaking Africa. 350M€. Structuring and closely manage the finance and administrative team over the region (10 FTE) to increase the quality of the information, speed up the closing and budgetary processes, introduce appropriate ad-hoc analysis. Actively support top management (Group CFO, Regional GM) and shareholders along company sale process. Leading the integration in the new Group post acquisition
CFO & CIO
Horoquartz
mars 2014 - mars 2015
1 an 1 mois
Nantes Area, France
Assignment to support GM to improve the management of support functions and set up an efficient organization towards the strategy expressed by Amano Corp. for the N° 1 in France of T&A Solutions. 90M€. Fine tuning of the strategy at operational and commercial level. Looking for the best position and synergies along the value chain of its sectors (job costing, planning, access control and identtity management). Strengthen the business model to deliver high level of solutions to address bigger international companies and be able to extend beyond present borders. Introduce the appropriate KPIs and agile data collection to measure the organic performance and support external growth ambition. Reinforce the company economic value by actively leading the working capital improvement, asserting the IP and expertise values, promoting brand awareness, achieve a high level of customers satisfaction. Member of the Executive Committee. Management of 35 FTE, development of the tecnical, soft skills, know-how and life skills
CFO & COO - Corporate Director
KADRIGE
juin 2012 - mars 2014
1 an 10 mois
Paris Area, France - Parsippany Area, New Jersey, US
Leading of the Company with the CEO, board of directors, and VCs Asserting the strategy to bring to market efficient solutions for main pharma industry leaders : tier one companies : Pfizer, AstraZeneca, BMS, Otsuka, Lilly as well as CSO/CRO: Quintiles, Inventiv Health, Cegedim, Indegene Lifesystems Conducting contract patnership negociations, Fund raising to support company growth, and monitor cash needs Involved in performance measurment, resources allocation, risks mitigation, commercial policy, Liaise with tax authorities, legal auditors, lawyers, M&A actors Executive Summary, Business Plan, cashflow forecasting Daily operational monitoring of the Finances and HR functions Carve out strategy, partial divestiture of business unit Governance and assets deal under collective insolvency proceedings Management of a redundancy plan, relationship with staff representatives, labor inspectorate, mandataire judiciaire, commercial court. Kadrige, now integrated in Cegedim Relationship Management, is the SaaS pioneer and market leader in technology solutions for promotion, information, training and remote management, remote medical calls, hybrid calls, and multi-channel promotions. Kadrige has created new business models using new technology, in particular to optimize the effectiveness of sales forces. Kadrige has launched several collaborative applications among its iSharing suite solutions
Directeur Administratif et Financier - CFO General Manager Administration Division
NEC France
sept. 2002 - mai 2012
9 ans 9 mois
I created this division by gathering support functions over a wide spectrum from accounting to communication, including procurement in one single organization conformed to group strategy. Basic idea was to leverage expertise on experience and process harmonization. Aims was in an efficient interactivity to give means to achieve targets, to follow up activities performance, to communicate smoothly, accurately and on time about achievements as well as difficulties. looking for countermesures, alternative choices by permanently having an understanding of the business environment, the regulation and the competitors best practices, and movements. 18 colleagues working with same active bright and service delivery spirit. Next steps are to develop this approach, looking for synergies and cost optimization at European level.
Directeur Administratif et Financier - CFO Group
NetValue
sept. 1999 - oct. 2002
3 ans 2 mois
Primary mission has been to setup and organize a support functions department to respond to company ambitious needs and innovative business model. Introduction of various process to collect, analyse and distribute data. Deciding what to measure and how to measure it. Giving the best and fair value, as example bring in revenue recongnition, or risk mapping and impair technical assets. Once this is well manage, building a substantial business plan to make the business approach attractive for prospects and investors. Secure the regulation expectation. Obtaining appropriate level of funds by going live to be listed, IPO on French Paris stock exchange. With Euros 60 Millions raised a fast development over advanced Internet markets. Adjust the organization to a fast growth within a challenging environment which was at that time very attractive and competitive. For time to market constraints managing restructuration and downsizing, while looking for synergies and alliances to carry on sustainable business.
Responsable du Contrôle de Gestion - Financial Controller
QuoVadis
févr. 1998 - oct. 1999
1 an 9 mois
After being involved in the acquisition audit process by VCs; I have been in charge of the reorganization of the company and to introduce a new reporting system. From budget to monthly reports all the data used to evaluate the company performance was under my responsibility. I worked closely to the Group CFO and the investors in order to monitor the strategy of the company.I also supported the Accounting team to establish the financial consolidation package.
Responsable Administratif et Financier - Financial Manager
Roto Smeets Media Partners
janv. 1995 - déc. 1998
4 ans
Set up the administrative & financial dpt. Generating financial and tax statements Implementation of a budget & reporting tool involving commercial and plants teams. Analytical projects approach helping business orientation. Interface with internal auditors, legal auditors, banks, various French governmental bodies.
Chef de Mission - Audit Manager
Fidorex Réseau Coopers and Lybrand
janv. 1990 - déc. 1995
6 ans
In charge of Audit including legal Audit as "Commissariat Aux Comptes" over various organisation listed and not listed acting in different industries and sectors. I had some to bring expertise insights and advices about designing financial functions, efficient reporting, tax optimization. I lead a team of 3 to 4 chartered accountans and define their priorities to achieve a deep understanding of some key factors for appropriate business valuation, risks mapping identification, respect of mandatory rules and then bring an added value to our customers portfolio in this financial scope. I had to run specifities like, due diligences in M&A projects, Consolidation set-up, Work Council Audit.
Formation
Tsinghua University
Master
2008 - 2009
2 ans
Babson College
Master
2008 - 2009
2 ans
HEC Paris
Executive MBA
2008 - 2009
2 ans
École Navale
2009 - 2009
2 mois
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
DESCF
1988 - 1990
3 ans
HEC Paris
Master Business & Administration, Majeure Finance
1985 - 1988
4 ans
Centre Madeleine Daniélou - Classes préparatoires
Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles
1983 - 1984
2 ans
Saint Charles
BAC
1979 - 1982
4 ans