Olivier BENARD, industrial & corporate cost controller

From high standards technical skills with an industrial basis & core information technologies, I can answer a wide range of needs as financial, human resource and computing advisor.
Email : olivier.benard@gmail.com
International Mobility within Europe

Profile

I have an in-depth work experience in major international companies with which I have developed my skills in accounting, finance, computing and project management.
Strategic and conceptual thinker, I am able to generate new ideas and initiate change. I have studied business for five years which is equivalent to the academic standards of a Master´s degree.

Core Competencies Include:

• Budgets
• General Accounting & Reporting
• Forecasting
• Cost Reductions
• Planning
• Efficiency Improvements
• Financial Analysis
• Coding

Finance, cost controlling, accounting & human resource cost controlling work experience

Febuary 2013 — to date : Corporate & Industrial Financial Controller - Tereos Ocean Indien

• Industrial cost controlling for 3 plants of the tereos group (Sucrière de la Réunion, Sucrière de Bois Rouge, Eurocanne)
  - Industrial procedures & policies optimisation regarding inventory and maintenance
  - Calculating Cost of Goods Sold & inventory cost
  - Industrial variances explainations
  - fix & variables, direct & indirect costs
  - Financial &, industrial scorecards
  - forecasting, budgeting & long term business plans
  
• Accounting & Finance :
  - monthly closing
  - financial reporting
  - Financial procedures & policies optimisation
  - SAP set-up & tuning, queries building
  
• Human Resource Cost Controlling :
  - Payroll analysis and convergence of 4 SAGE payroll systems
  - Set-up of HR scorecards
  - Hourly wage
  - Link in-between Human Resource Dept. & Accounting Dept.
  

March 2008 — January 2013 : Cost Controller - Keolis Group

• Major contracts
• Reportings & variance analysis
• Technics ressource costs following upand invoicing (external + internal)
• Human ressource costs following up
• Budgets, forcasting
• VBA coding on Excel and Access and relationship with SAP and other ERPs.

March 2007 — January 2008: Cost Controller - Renault Trucks

• Reportings & variance analysis - Business Review Management Financial Explainations
• IT Cost department following up
• Sales & Administration reduction cost following up
• Market companies invoicing (for IT costs)
• Budgets planning & forecasting.
• Excel, Outlook and powerpoint coding

June 2006 — January 2007: Cost Controller - Bayer Cropscience

• Reportings & variance analysis.
• Financial Flow analysis
• Budget
• Excel coding

March 2006 — May 2006: Accounting clerk - Adecco

• General ledger, invoicing, bank relations, etc.

December 2004 — October 2005 : Cost Controller - Areva Framatome ANP

• Budget 2005 & budget 2006 preparation.
• Dashboard contructructions and optimization
• Change risk insurance following-up
• Error correction processing from GPAO to SAP

Other missions & work experience

• Support Agent Space Imaging. Captown, South Africa. customers relationship, referencing, associates management. (June - August 2004)
• Strategic analysis of Douet-Bois Ligeard La Rochelle. Market study and audit, accounts analysis. (January - May 2004)
• Commercial & sponsoring management (2004), market study phoning (2003)
• Social balance & cost control principles - Les Villas du Lagon Hotel (September 2003)
• Market study for Star Groupe Syliance. (November 02 - June 2003)
• Support agent Real Estate Agency (2001)

Languages & other skills

French : Native speaker
English : Fluent
Spanish : International level A1
German : International level A2
Office : Excel, Access, Word, Project, Visio, Powerpoint, Outlook, Acrobat, OpenOffice
SAP : Finances
            Controlling CO [EC-PCA, CO-PA, CO-PC, CO-OM],
            Financial Accounting FI[FI-GL, FI-AR, FI-AP, FI-AA],
            Projects [PS],
            Reporting [SEM]
            Coding with Writer, Painter et New GL
SAP : Human Resource [Personnel Administration, Personnel Data]
SAP : Industry
            Module PM [Plant Management, projects management included],
            Module PP [Production Planning],
            Module MM [Material Management]
            Module WM [WareHouse Management]
Applications : BW, BusinessObject, SAP BusinessObjects Financial Consolidation, BFC, SAGE, Cartesis, Unimaxis, Planet, Microgaming, Cognos Planning, GPAO, GMAO, Maximo.
Coding : VB, VBA, Qbasic, TurboPascal, FreePascal, Gambas, html, xhtml.
Graphics : Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro.
Travels : Germany, South Africa, France, Irlande, Mauritius, Spain.

Education & Qualification

2002-2005: ESC La Rochelle. Master II : Financial budgeting, control, and analysis / Audit
2000-2002: preparatory classes for business schools (French top universities)
2000: Baccalaureate in Sciences

Additional Education / Specialised Training

Computing coursesLaw courses
Motivation and conflict management seminar
Communication seminar Theatre seminar
Multicultural Negotiation seminar

Fair Trade conferences
Negotiation seminar

codedesign & programming

Interests

I am good at photography. I enjoy reading novels as well as science and news magazines. I love going to the cinema and listening to music.

Please

Do not hesitate to ask for any references you may need.

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