Alix Lefort

- Financial Controller for an area comprising 50+ countries in Africa and the Middle-East - Main point of contact for commercial functions regarding all finance related topics - Enabled decision making processes by ensuring that all business decisions are supported by robust and informative financial analysis - Experience in working in matrix organization with multiple reporting lines - Achievement: Provided finance support for the split of the Commercial Unit into smaller sub-units with dedicated P&Ls

- Lead the Management Reporting Team (3 people) and streamlined their ways of working - Responsible for effective and efficient management reporting across the region and towards headquarters - The key was continuous improvement and sustained delivery of high quality service, which was scalable for both organic and acquisitive growth - Achievement: Supported the merger of Seeds and Crop Protection divisions by providing standardized reports sourced from various systems for senior management use

- Analysed sales and gross profit at EAME level (actual and forecast). - Supported the Sales & Operations Planning process. - Supported business decision-making for the region (e.g. pricing). - Achievement: Analysis of impact of regulatory ban of an important active substance.

- Achievement: Provided cost centre analysis for the EAME area. Identified significant variances and their root causes. - Ran the accrual process and the monthly activity allocations for the Swiss pilot plants. - Maintained the global capital expenditure plan for T&E. - Supported the global forecasting and budgeting process of the T&E function.

- Coordinated collection of actual sales, inventory and forecasts on monthly basis at product code level for North America and Western Europe (I was main HQ contact for the process). - Analysis of the collected data as well as correction of the corresponding local and consolidated standard costs. - Achievement: Trained 50+ people on Costing Budget Process and period end submissions across the world.

- Reviewed corporate management reporting: creation of new forms. - Managed security and access to the reporting and consolidation tool of the AXA Group (in compliance with section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act). - Provided functional assistance to the users worldwide.

GPA: 3.79/4.0 Concentration in Finance