cfo, marketing communications, media, France, finance director
Sector: Marketing Communications
Recruited a CFO for the agencies in France of a group of leading global media buying and planning networks, part of a FTSE 100 marcomms company.
cfo, marketing communications, media, France, finance director
Sector: Marketing Communications
Recruited a CFO for the agencies in France of a group of leading global media buying and planning networks, part of a FTSE 100 marcomms company.
cluster, France, western europe, services, us corp, nyse, financial controller, fpa, chemicals
Sector: Sustainability & Purity
Hired the no.2 to the CFO for France, Belgium & the Netherland for an NYSE listed company with local sales of $750m. The key challenges for the FP&A Manager were to develop an improved KPI reporting system to better understand the impact of discounts and rebates in sales contracts, as well as manage the total country FP&A cycles. The management matrix employed by this company was highly ambiguous with ownership of the P&L shared …
cfo, finance director, cluster, France, western europe, services, us corp, nyse, chemicals
Sector: Sustainability & Purity
Hired the European Finance Director for a global business unit of an NYSE listed company, with regional sales of $150m. The key challenges for the CFO were many-fold. The management matrix employed by this company was highly ambiguous with ownership of the P&L shared with European countries therefore influencing skills were essential.
financial controller, controller, us corp, us gaap, revenue recognition, France
Sector: Medical Devices
Working with one of the world's largest companies to hire a US GAAP accounting specialist to partner with the commercial organisation and ensure the sales force was aware of the impact of revenue recognition and other concepts that would impact working capital and the balance sheet.
controller, financial controller, media, tv, private equity, fpa, France
Sector: TV Production
Worked with the UK-based head office to recruit a global Financial Controller responsible for leading the team incorporating FP&A, reporting and accounting. The challenge for this mandate invovled identifying a candidate who would satisfy the private equity owner and be capable of building a KPI based reporting package for the first time.
marketing communications, advertising, cfo, finance director, France, us corp
Sector: Marketing Communications
Hired a CFO for the media buying division of a top three marketing communications group. The challenge for this role was to find an agency CFO who had considerable experience of change management and transformation, since the Group was attempting to integrate three independent agencies in order to gain economies of scale.
Sector: Apparel
Partnering with a US listed apparel company to identify a CFO for France and Southern following the promotion of the incumbent to the European Controller role. The main challenge in this mandate was to identify a high performance candidate at a low salary, since the compensation on offer was 20% below market rate. We were fortunate to identify an out of work candidate prepared to accept a lower basic salary.
cfo, finance director, advertising, marketing communications, France, us corp
Sector: Advertising Agency
Search to hire the CFO of the French agencies of a global creative network, part of one of the top three marketing communications groups. Like other agency CFO mandates, this search was relatively straightforward because of the availability of information.
Sector: Retail
Hired a newly created position to oversee internal audit for all countries of operation in continental Europe. This was a highly political environment because of the necessity to standardise processes across three different and independent brands.
cfo, finance director, fmcg, private equity, France, western europe
Sector: FMCG
Completed the search to recruit a CFO for the Belgium, France and Netherlands countries on behalf of a private equity backed FMCG company. The role combined support of the commercial and manufacturing operations. the most challenging aspect of the search was to identify a candidate with a strong commercial acumen and the quick mind to enable interaction with the private equity backer.