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CFO in an international context

Work Experience

2005 - january 2010 Europcar Groupe S.A.
Vehicle rental, 2.2 billion euros turnover, 3 billion euros indebtedness
Director of Group Treasury

- Group financing, bank relationships, credit lines, structured finance, issuance of debt instruments
- Financing agreements, including negotiation and validation of restrictive covenants
- Acquisition financing
- Short and long-term planning, budget, consolidation, management reporting
- Group treasury systems and procedures
- Day-to-day treasury, cash pooling, intercompany loans, netting, optimisation of cash-flow and working capital
- Currency and interest rate hedging
- Bank guarantees and letters of credit
- Reporting to investors and banks

Major accomplishments:
- Reorganisation and centralisation of group treasury functions, including implementation of centralised servers and software, reorganisation of 1.8 billion euros of existing debt, structuring and implementation of 500 million euro international securitisation scheme backed by a portion of vehicle fleet, integration in shareholder (Volkswagen) treasury reporting system

- Dual track preparation of sale of Europcar: supervision of all aspects of the IPO, including publication of offering memorandum, presentation to the French Securities and Exchange Commission, and due diligence and expert meetings in preparation for LBO, management of 8 billion euros LBO funds flow

- LBO financing, including high yield bonds (550 million euros), refinancing of all existing debt via revolving credit facility (350 million euros), senior asset-backed loan (2,900 million euros), and operating lease facilities (160 million euros). Responsibilities included negotiation of financing contracts, centralisation of group financing, reporting to banks and investors, and renegotiation of fleet sourcing contracts to ensure compliance with financing agreements

- Two billion euros asset-backed multinational securitisation: structuring, negotiations with banks, rating agencies and monolines, implementation of related reporting requirements

- External growth transactions: LBO of UK-based company, including issuance of 250 million euros of additional bonds by way of add-on to existing high-yield bonds and refinancing of 750 million pounds of local debt; 35 million euros acquisition of Spanish franchisee, including refinancing of 75 million euros debt; 45 million euros acquisition of Australia New-Zealand franchisee

- Creation of complex simulation tools and overhaul of reporting, resulting in improved monitoring of performance and forecasts

One billion euros refinancing of a portion of existing asset-backed credit line by operating lease schemes

1994 - 2005 Europcar International S.A.S.U Financial services manager

- Management of the implementation, for all Group departments, of all analytic and reporting tools and decision support systems, such as Oracle Financials and Business Objects and other programmes derived from the then new global information systems
- Management of financial databases, consolidation and reporting to shareholders
- Management of ad hoc reporting projects

Major accomplishments:
- Reliable and adaptable reporting and consolidation tools
- Integration with the shareholder’s Entreprise Resource Planning systems during the transition to IFRS
- Design and implementation of netting sytems – resulting in the decrease of the number of intercompany payments by 93%
- Management of the « EVA », Economic Value Added, project – resulting in cash-flow optimisation and reduction of the working capital needs of operating companies by 15 %
- Execution of a 500 million euro asset-backed securitisation and the corresponding reporting procedures

1993 - 1994 Europcar International S.A. - Group corporate controller

- Head of the management reporting group
- Internal and external reporting
- Headquarters control of the holding companies and the nine international subsidiaries
- Forecast, budget and five-year plan
- Contingency plans, surveillance of liabilities and investments, follow-up of specific projects
- Maintenance and upgrading of reporting systems

Major accomplishments :
- Implementation of a common chart of accounts for all subsidiaries of the group
- Preparation of the implementation of Oracle Financials
- Negotiation and validation of the specifications for management reporting and support applications in connection with the overhaul of the information management systems of the entire group
- Streamlined reporting, clear, relevant, flexible – used for eleven years

1991 - 1993 Europcar International S.A. - Controller

- Management reporting for English, German, Swiss, Belgian and Dutch subsidiaries, representing 70 % of the group’s turnover

Major accomplishments
- Implementation of new management reporting and new consolidation tools

1988 – 1991 Hachette Groupe Presse, international consumer magazines publishing, 600 million euros turnover - International controller

- Headquarters control of foreign subsidiaries
- P&L accounts by publication
- Business plans for external growth operations, joint ventures and new publications

Major accomplishments :
- Standardised and consistent profit and loss acounts by publication
- Business plans for the launch or acquisition of over thirty publications

1984 – 1988 Europ Assistance
Insurance and assistance to travellers, 150 million euros’ turnover - Deputy to the International Director

- Follow-up of international projects

Major accomplishments :
- Implementation of the first consolidated management reporting system
- Installation of an international payment and billing centre

1983 – 1984 Veuve Clicquot Import GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany - Assistant to the CEO

1980 - 1982 Crédit Lyonnais, Madrid, Spain
National service

Education

École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris
bachelor of science in business administration
major in international business

Skills

- Complex financings, including credit lines, structured finance, leasing, issuance of debt instruments
- Treasury
- Cash management
- Controlling, budget, reporting
- M&A
- LBOs, IPOs

Languages

mother tongue, French ; exceptional fluency in English, German and Spanish – constant professional use, oral and written, of all three languages.

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