Philippe Pierlot
Finance Manager - Part Time / Interim Management
Salary / Daily rate
Lyon, France
Freelance
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
15+ years experience on financial leadership to businesses in need of growth and transformation. My expertise includes: Part-Time CFO Services: Supporting businesses in scaling and financial management. Finance Transformation Initiatives: Steering projects that enhance financial operations, from ERP system implementations and leveraging Business Intelligence to reorganizing finance teams and managing mergers and acquisitions. My mission is to streamline your financial operations, making them m
Work experience
Finance Director - Part Time / Interim Management
Freelance
Dec 2023 - Present
2 years 11 months
Lyon, France
Head of FP&A
Groupe em2c
Oct 2019 - Nov 2023
4 years 2 months
Lyon Area, France
EM2C is a dynamic actor on the BtoB real estate industry, its strength is based on its ability to developing tailor made and turn-key facilities by providing an end-to-end expertise (Land, Design and Build). Accompanying Group Sustainable Growth by: - Improving the analytical structure - Contribution to the profitability improvement - ... (and many other interesting challenges to come)
Business Control Manager
Intrum France
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
2 years 1 month
Lyon, France
Manager for France (120 M€ Revenue - 760+ employees) Business Controlling Team (3 people) - FP&A management, Group point of entry for France. - Improved Client porfitability analysis by implement Business Intelligence Tools based on ABC method. - Evangilized Operations Management to a Profitability Culture : combining client and customer satisfaction and profitability
Finance Manager Grandstands, Tents and Structure division
GL events
Oct 2015 - May 2017
1 year 8 months
Lyon Area, France
Finance Manager - Eastern Europe, CIS and Middle East & Africa.
JDSU
Mar 2011 - May 2015
4 years 3 months
East EMEA
• Finance Management (USGAAP and Local GAAP) : Reporting for Russia, Dubai, Austria, Turkey and Poland entities. DSO Management (EMEA Project Manager on a Cash Collection tool implementation: Get Paid) • Business Support: Analysis of Tenders, Contracts and Letter of Credit. Credit Management : Eastern Europe, CIS and Middle East and Africa. FP&A : Budgeting, Consolidating and Monitoring OPEX at Planning & Forecasting at sub-region level (3 currencies/5 sub-perimeters)
Bouygues Construction
Sep 2006 - Mar 2011
4 years 7 months
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Senior Finance Controller
Sep 2009 - Mar 2011
1 year 7 months
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Equipment Department (turnover 45MEUR – 500 employees - YoY Investement: 15MEUR ) *Construction Equipments Internal Rental (15 projects in progress), *Car rental (200+ Cars) *Concrete Production and Services Providing (100 000 m3 per year) Financial Control: Controlling (P&L and B/S) on Local and French Standards (EUR / USD and Local Currency) Budget, Quarterly Forecast and Monthly Reforecast. Recruitment and management of a 5 people team Redefinition of Financial Processes (alignment with new corporate equipment policy): *Alignment of amortization duration *P&L optimization : B/S Clean-up and Capitalization Process Optimized *Reinforced Spare-Parts inventory management (15% of Expense) : Physical Counts Process, E&O Accruals, Capitalization (IAS 16) Set-up of Tools (Excel/VBA): *Financial and analytical management *Internal billing *Inventory Management *Return On Investment and Return On Maintenance
Project Financial Controller
Oct 2007 - Dec 2009
2 years 3 months
Turkmenistan
Ministry of Agriculture project (50 mUSD) Project controlling completion-percentage method and Monthly Project Reforecast (Revenue, Costs, and Cashflow) Currency hedging (EUR vs USD)
Financial Control Department
Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
1 year 1 month
Paris, France
Tax : - Country Tax Memos analysis ahead of tendering process. - Tax optimisation schemes proposal Finance - Third parties Financial Analysis (suppliers, customers, local partners) - Involved in the Group SAP reporting module set up and implementation. [Apprenticeship at SKEMA Business School]
Financial Auditor
ernst & young
Sep 2005 - Jun 2006
10 months
Luxembourg
[Placement Year] New Technology Industry : - Internal processes analysis and test (Supply, Sell, Payments and Payroll) - Fraud risk hedging. - Control and check of reporting packages Bank and Investment Fund Industry - “Anti money laundering and terrorism financing” law application: test of registered and numbered accounts opening, analysis of sleeping accounts. - Audit of Investment Funds’ management companies (management fees computation) - Pricing of Investment Funds’ portfolios
Education
SKEMA Business School
Master's degree, Finance / Controlling
2004 - 2007
4 years
Activities and societies: Trophé Golf 2005
SKEMA Business School is a tier-1 French Business School and is the 25th European Master in Management (Financial Times - 2018)
Huddersfield University Business School
Bachelor (Hns), European Business
2003 - 2004
2 years
Licenses & certifications
Data Analyst Bootcamp
Issued: May 2025
IFRS Manager
Issued: Jun 2015